1931 Pulitzer Prize

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1931.

Journalism awards

"An Old Struggle Still Going On", winner of the prize for editorial cartooning.

• Public Service:
  • The Atlanta Constitution, for a successful municipal graft exposure and consequent convictions.^[1]
• Reporting:
  • A. B. MacDonald of The Kansas City Star, for his work in connection with a murder in Amarillo, Texas.^[2]
• Correspondence:
  • H. R. Knickerbocker of the Philadelphia Public Ledger and New York Evening Post, for a series of articles on the practical operation of the Five Year Plan in Russia.
• Editorial Writing:
  • Charles S. Ryckman of Fremont Tribune, for the editorial entitled "The Gentleman from Nebraska."^[3]
• Editorial Cartooning:
  • Edmund Duffy of The Baltimore Sun, for "An Old Struggle Still Going On".

Letters and Drama Awards

• Novel:
  • Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)
• Drama:
  • Alison's House by Susan Glaspell (S. French)
• History:
  • The Coming of the War 1914 by Bernadotte E. Schmitt (Scribner)
• Biography or Autobiography:
  • Charles W. Eliot by Henry James (Houghton)
• Poetry:
  • Collected Poems by Robert Frost (Holt)