1950 Pulitzer Prize
# 1950 Pulitzer Prize

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1950.

## Journalism awards

* Public Service:
   * The Chicago Daily News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for the work of George Thiem and Roy J. Harris, respectively, in exposing the presence of 37 Illinois newspapermen on an Illinois State payroll.
* Local Reporting:
   * Meyer Berger of The New York Times, for his 4,000-word story on the mass killings by Howard Unruh in Camden, New Jersey.
* National Reporting:
   * Edwin O. Guthman of The Seattle Times, for his series on the clearing of Communist charges of Professor Melvin Rader, who had been accused of attending a secret Communist school.
* International Reporting:
   * Edmund Stevens of The Christian Science Monitor, for his series of 43 articles written over a three-year residence in Moscow entitled, "This Is Russia Uncensored".
* Editorial Writing:
   * Carl M. Saunders of the Jackson Citizen Patriot, for distinguished editorial writing during the year.
* Editorial Cartooning:
   * James T. Berryman of the Washington Evening Star, for "All Set for a Super-Secret Session in Washington".
* Photography:
   * Bill Crouch of The Oakland Tribune, for his picture, "Near Collision at Air Show".

## Letters, Drama and Music Awards

* Fiction:
   * The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (Sloane).
* Drama:
   * South Pacific by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Joshua Logan (Random).
* History:
   * Art and Life in America by Oliver Waterman Larkin (Rinehart).
* Biography or Autobiography:
   * John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis (Knopf).
* Poetry:
   * Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks (Harper).
* Music;
   * Music in The Consul by Gian-Carlo Menotti (G. Schirmer), produced at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York.
