1928 Pulitzer Prize

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1928.

The Indianapolis Times received the prize for Public Service.

Journalism awards

• Public Service:
  • The Indianapolis Times, "for its work in exposing political corruption to Indiana, prosecuting the guilty and bringing about a more wholesome state of affairs in civil government". The prize recognized the Times's investigation of Ku Klux Klan connections among city and state officials, including Governor Ed Jackson.^[1]
• Reporting:
  • No award given
• Editorial Writing:
  • Grover Cleveland Hall of The Montgomery Advertiser, for his editorials against gangsterism, floggings and racial and religious intolerance.^[2] "The Advertiser waged war against the resurgent Ku Klux Klan", the paper says today.^[3]

"May His Shadow Never Grow Less", the winning editorial cartoon, which pays tribute to Charles Lindbergh's goodwill tour of Latin America

• Editorial Cartooning:
  • Nelson Harding of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, "May His Shadow Never Grow Less."^[4]

Letters and Drama Awards

• Novel:
  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni)
• Drama:
  • Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill (Boni)
• History:
  • Main Currents in American Thought, 2 vols. by Vernon Louis Parrington (Harcourt)
• Biography or Autobiography:
  • The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas by Charles Edward Russell (Doubleday)
• Poetry:
  • Tristram by Edwin Arlington Robinson (Macmillan)