1961 Pulitzer Prize

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1961.

Journalism awards

• Public Service:
  • The Amarillo Globe-Times
• Local Reporting, Edition Time:
  • Sanche de Gramont of the New York Herald Tribune
• Local Reporting, No Edition time:
  • Edgar May of The Buffalo Evening News
• National Reporting:
  • Edward R. Cony of The Wall Street Journal
• International Reporting:
  • Lynn Heinzerling of the Associated Press
• Editorial Writing:
  • William J. Dorvillier of The San Juan Star
• Editorial Cartooning:
  • Carey Orr of the Chicago Tribune
• Photography:
  • Yasushi Nagao of Mainichi, Tokyo

Letters, Music and Drama Awards

• Fiction:
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)
• Drama:
  • All the Way Home by Tad Mosel (Obolensky)
• History:
  • Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference by Herbert Feis (Princeton Univ. Press)
• Biography or Autobiography:
  • Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War by David Donald (Knopf)
• Poetry:
  • Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades by Phyllis McGinley (Viking)
• Music:
  • Symphony No. 7 by Walter Piston (Associated Music Publishers), first performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra on February 10, 1961, and commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra Association.

Special Citations and Awards

• Letters:
  • American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War. A special citation is given to The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War as a distinguished example of American book publishing.

External links

• Pulitzer Prizes for 1961