1961 Pulitzer Prize

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1961.

Journalism awards

*Public Service:
** The '' Amarillo Globe-Times'', for "exposing a breakdown in local law enforcement with resultant punitive action that swept lax officials from their posts and brought about the election of a reform slate. The newspaper thus exerted its civic leadership in the finest tradition of journalism."
* Local Reporting, Edition Time:
** Sanche de Gramont of the '' New York Herald Tribune'', "for his moving account of the death of Leonard Warren on the Metropolitan Opera stage".
* Local Reporting, No Edition time:
**Edgar May of '' The Buffalo Evening News'', for his 14-part series about New York's public welfare services, "Our Costly Dilemma", which "brought about reforms that attracted nationwide attention".
*Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, National Reporting:
**Edward R. Cony of ''The Wall Street Journal'', "for his analysis of a timber transaction which drew the attention of the public to problems of business ethics".
*Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, International Reporting:
**Lynn Heinzerling of the Associated Press, "for his reporting, under extraordinarily difficult conditions, of the early stages of the Congo crisis and his keen analysis of events in other parts of Africa".
*Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing, Editorial Writing:
** William J. Dorvillier of ''The San Juan Star'', "for his editorials on clerical interference in the 1960 Puerto Rican general election, 1960 gubernatorial election in Puerto Rico".
*Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, Editorial Cartooning:
** Carey Orr of the ''Chicago Tribune'', "for his long and distinguished career as an editorial cartoonist, as exemplified by a cartoon captioned, 'The Kindly Tiger', published on October 8, 1960".

*Pulitzer Prize for Photography, Photography:
**Yasushi Nagao of ''Mainichi Shimbun, Mainichi'' (Tokyo), for "Tokyo Stabbing", a photograph of the assassination of Japanese politician Inejiro Asanuma, distributed in the United States by United Press International.

Letters, Music and Drama Awards

*Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Fiction:
**''To Kill a Mockingbird'' by Harper Lee (J. B. Lippincott & Co., Lippincott)
*Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Drama:
**''All the Way Home (play), All the Way Home'' by Tad Mosel (Ivan Sergeyevich Obolensky, Obolensky)
*Pulitzer Prize for History, History:
** ''Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference'' by Herbert Feis (Princeton University Press, Princeton Univ. Press)
*Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, Biography or Autobiography:
** ''Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War'' by David Herbert Donald, David Donald (Alfred A. Knopf, Knopf)
*Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Poetry:
** ''Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades'' by Phyllis McGinley (Viking Press, Viking)
*Pulitzer Prize for Music, Music:
** ''Symphony No. 7 (Piston), Symphony No. 7'' by Walter Piston (G. Schirmer, Associated Music Publishers), first performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra on February 10, 1961, and commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra Association.
*Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards, Special Citation:
** ''American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War'', as a distinguished example of American book publishing.

References

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