1926 Pulitzer Prize

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1926.

The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism

Journalism awards

• Public Service:
  • Columbus Enquirer Sun, for the service which it rendered in its brave and energetic fight against the Ku Klux Klan; against the enactment of a law barring the teaching of evolution; against dishonest and incompetent public officials and for justice to the Negro and against lynching.
• Reporting:
  • William Burke Miller of Louisville Courier-Journal, for his work in connection with the story of the trapping in Sand Cave, Kentucky, of Floyd Collins.^[1]
• Editorial Writing:
  • Edward M. Kingsbury of The New York Times, for "The House of a Hundred Sorrows".

"The Laws of Moses and the Laws of Today", winner of the prize for Editorial Cartooning

• Editorial Cartooning:
  • D. R. Fitzpatrick of St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "The Laws of Moses and the Laws of Today".^[2]

Letters and Drama Awards

• Novel:
  • Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt (publisher)) (declined)
• Drama:
  • Craig's Wife by George Kelly (Little, Brown and Company)
• History:
  • A History of the United States, Vol. VI: The War for Southern Independence (1849–1865) by Edward Channing (Macmillan Publishers)
• Biography or Autobiography:
  • The Life of Sir William Osler by Harvey Cushing (Oxford University Press)
• Poetry:
  • What's O'Clock by Amy Lowell (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)