1970 Pulitzer Prize
The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1970.
Journalism awards
- Public Service:
- Newsday, Garden City, New York, for its three-year investigation and exposure of secret land deals in eastern Long Island, which led to a series of criminal convictions, discharges and resignations among public and political officeholders in the area.
- Local General or Spot News Reporting:
- Thomas Fitzpatrick of the Chicago Sun-Times, for his article about the violence of youthful radicals in Chicago, A Wild Night's Ride With SDS.
- Local Investigative Specialized Reporting:
- Harold E. Martin of the Montgomery Advertiser and Alabama Journal, for his expose of a commercial scheme for using Alabama prisoners for drug experimentation and obtaining blood plasma from them.
- National Reporting:
- William J. Eaton of the Chicago Daily News, for disclosures about the background of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr., in connection with his nomination for the United States Supreme Court.
- International Reporting:
- Seymour M. Hersh of the Dispatch News Service, Washington, D.C. For his exclusive disclosure of the Vietnam War tragedy at the hamlet of My Lai.
- Commentary:
- Marquis Childs of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for distinguished commentary during 1969.
- Criticism:
- Ada Louise Huxtable of The New York Times, for distinguished criticism during 1969.
- Editorial Writing:
- Philip L. Geyelin of The Washington Post, for his editorials during 1969.
- Editorial Cartooning:
- Thomas F. Darcy of Newsday, Garden City, New York. For his editorial cartooning during 1969.
- Spot News Photography:
- Steve Starr of Associated Press, Albany, New York Bureau, for his news photo taken of militant black students following their takeover of Willard Straight Hall Cornell University, Campus Guns.
- Feature Photography:
- Dallas Kinney of The Palm Beach Post, West Palm Beach, Florida. For his portfolio of pictures of Florida migrant workers, Migration to Misery.
Letters, Drama and Music Awards
- Fiction:
- Collected Stories by Jean Stafford (Farrar)
- Drama:
- History:
- Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department by Dean Acheson (Norton)
- Biography or Autobiography:
- Poetry:
- Untitled Subjects by Richard Howard (Atheneum)
- General Non-Fiction:
- Music:
- Time's Encomium by Charles Wuorinen (C. F. Peters)
Premiered in its entirety at the Berkshire Music Festival on August 16, 1969.
- Time's Encomium by Charles Wuorinen (C. F. Peters)
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