1965 Pulitzer Prize

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1965.

Journalism awards

• Public Service:
  • The Hutchinson News, for its courageous and constructive campaign, culminating in 1964, to bring about more equitable reapportionment of the Kansas Legislature, despite powerful opposition in its own community.^[1]
• Local General or Spot News Reporting:
  • Melvin H. Ruder of the Hungry Horse News, a weekly in Columbia Falls, Montana, for his daring and resourceful coverage of a disastrous flood that threatened his community, an individual effort in the finest tradition of spot news reporting.^[2]
• Local Investigative Specialized Reporting:
  • Gene Goltz of the Houston Post, for his expose of government corruption in Pasadena, Texas, which resulted in widespread reforms.
• National Reporting:
  • Louis M. Kohlmeier of The Wall Street Journal, for his enterprise in reporting the growth of the fortune of President Lyndon B. Johnson and his family.
• International Reporting:
  • J. A. Livingston of the Philadelphia Bulletin, for his reports on the growth of economic independence among Russia's Eastern European satellites and his analysis of their desire for a resumption of trade with the West.
• Editorial Writing:
  • John R. Harrison of The Gainesville Sun, for his successful editorial campaign for better housing in his city.
• Editorial Cartooning:
  • No award given.
• Photography:
  • Horst Faas of the Associated Press, for his combat photography of the war in South Vietnam during 1964.^[3]

A selection of Horst Faas's prize-winning photographs of the Vietnam War

Letters, Drama and Music Awards

• Fiction:
  • The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau (Random).
• Drama:
  • The Subject Was Roses by Frank D. Gilroy (Samuel French).
• History:
  • The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger (Princeton Univ. Press).
• Biography or Autobiography:
  • Henry Adams, three volumes by Ernest Samuels (Harvard Univ. Press).
• Poetry:
  • 77 Dream Songs by John Berryman (Farrar).
• General Nonfiction:
  • O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones (Viking).
• Music:
  • No award given.