1965 Pulitzer Prize
# 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.
* 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.
* 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.

## 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 Non-Fiction:
   * O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones (Viking).
* Music:
   * No award given.
