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1926 Pulitzer Prize
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Awards for journalism and related fields
The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1926.thumb|The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism
Journalism awards
Public Service:
Columbus Enquirer Sun, for the service which it rendered in its brave and energetic fight against the Ku Klux Klan; against the enactment of a law barring the teaching of evolution; against dishonest and incompetent public officials and for justice to the Negro and against lynching.
Reporting:
William Burke Miller of Louisville Courier-Journal, for his work in connection with the story of the trapping in Sand Cave, Kentucky, of Floyd Collins.'Skeets' Miller wins $1,000 Pulitzer Prize for Courier-Journal Collins stories The Courier-Journal Louisville, Kentucky May 4, 1926 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56051967/skeets-miller-wins-1000-pulitzer/ Newspapers.com (Part 2 of article)
Editorial Writing:
Edward M. Kingsbury of The New York Times, for "The House of a Hundred Sorrows".
thumb|"The Laws of Moses and the Laws of Today", winner of the prize for Editorial Cartooning
Editorial Cartooning:
D. R. Fitzpatrick of St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "The Laws of Moses and the Laws of Today".Pulitzer awards in arts and letters for 1925 announced; work of Post-Dispatch cartoonist declared best of the year St. Louis Post-Dispatch May 4, 1926 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56052449/pulitzer-awards-in-arts-and-letters-for/ Newspapers.com (Part 2 of article)
Letters and Drama Awards
Novel:
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt (publisher)) (declined)
Drama:
Craig's Wife by George Kelly (Little, Brown and Company)
History:
A History of the United States, Vol. VI: The War for Southern Independence (1849–1865) by Edward Channing (Macmillan Publishers)
Biography or Autobiography:
The Life of Sir William Osler by Harvey Cushing (Oxford University Press)
Poetry:
What's O'Clock by Amy Lowell (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
References
External links
Pulitzer Prizes for 1926 https://web.archive.org/web/20151224023935/http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1926 2015-12-24
Category:Pulitzer Prizes by year
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