1920 Pulitzer Prize

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1920.

Journalism awards

• Public Service:
  • No award given. Jurors recommended the prize be given to the Minneapolis Daily News for its Americanization campaign, but the Advisory Board declined to make an award.^[1]
• Reporting:
  • John J. Leary, Jr. of the New York World, for the series of articles written during the United Mine Workers coal strike of 1919.
• Editorial Writing:
  • Harvey E. Newbranch of the Evening World Herald (Omaha) for an editorial entitled "Law and the Jungle", condemning the Omaha race riot of 1919.^[2]

Letters and Drama Awards

• Drama:
  • Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O'Neill (Boni)
• History:
  • The War with Mexico by Justin Harvey Smith (Macmillan)
• Biography or Autobiography:
  • The Life of John Marshall by Albert J. Beveridge (Houghton)