1920 Pulitzer Prize

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1920.

Journalism awards

• Public Service:
  • No award given. Jurors recommended the prize be given to the Minneapolis Daily News for its Americanization campaign, but the Advisory Board declined to make an award. ^[1]
• Reporting:
  • John J. Leary, Jr. of the New York World , for the series of articles written during the United Mine Workers coal strike of 1919.
• Editorial Writing:
  • Harvey E. Newbranch of the Evening World Herald (Omaha) for an editorial entitled "Law and the Jungle", condemning the Omaha race riot of 1919. ^[2]

Letters and Drama Awards

• Drama:
  • Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O'Neill (Boni)
• History:
  • The War with Mexico by Justin Harvey Smith (Macmillan)
• Biography or Autobiography:
  • The Life of John Marshall by Albert J. Beveridge (Houghton)

References

1. Heinz-Dietrich Fischer; Erika J. Fischer (2011). Complete Historical Handbook of the Pulitzer Prize System 1917-2000. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 13–14. ISBN   978-3110939125.
2. Rodney W. Howe (1994). An historical analysis of "Law and the Jungle", the Pulitzer Prize winning editorial by Harvey E. Newbranch (Thesis). University of Nebraska–Lincoln. OCLC   30575882.

External links

• Pulitzer Prizes for 1920