Misplaced Pages

The Pulitzer Prizes for 1961 are:

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".
• 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".
• 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".
• Editorial Writing:
  • William J. Dorvillier of The San Juan Star, "for his editorials on clerical interference in the 1960 gubernatorial election in Puerto Rico".
• 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".

• Photography:
  • Yasushi Nagao of 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

• 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 Citation:
  • American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War, as a distinguished example of American book publishing.

References

1. ^ Vincent Butler (May 2, 1961). "Carey Orr wins Pulitzer cartoon prize". Chicago Daily Tribune – via Newspapers.com.
2. "Pulitzer Prize to Globe-Times". Amarillo Globe-Times. May 1, 1961 – via Newspapers.com. (Part 2 of article)
3. ^ "Texas newspaper awarded Pulitzer Prize gold medal". The Holland Evening Sentinel. UPI. May 2, 1961 – via Newspapers.com.
4. "Heinzerling has plenty of reporting experience". Johnson City Press. AP. May 2, 1961 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Lynn Heinzerling of Associated Press". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
6. Carey Orr (October 8, 1960). "The Kindly Tiger". Chicago Daily Tribune – via Newspapers.com.

External links

• Pulitzer Prizes for 1961

v t e Pulitzer Prize
Joseph Pulitzer Columbia University Winners Multi-award winners Special Citations and Awards
Pulitzers by Year	1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Categories	Journalism Public Service International Reporting National Reporting Breaking News Reporting Investigative Reporting Local Reporting Explanatory Reporting Audio Reporting Editorial Writing Feature Writing Breaking News Photography Feature Photography Commentary Criticism Illustrated Reporting and Commentary Former Reporting Correspondence Photography Beat Reporting Letters, Drama, & Music Biography Memoir or Autobiography History General Nonfiction Fiction Poetry Drama Music

• Pulitzer Prizes by year
• 1961 in the United States
• 1961 awards
• 1961 awards in the United States