Awards & Winners

1941 Pulitzer Prize

Check winners and nominations of 1941 Pulitzer Prize. Check awards winners of 1941 Pulitzer Prize. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

1941 Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Robert E. Sherwood

Honored for : There Shall Be No Night
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

(For its successful campaign against the city smoke nuisance.)
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

Reuben Maury

(For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.)
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning

Jacob Burck

(For 'If I Should Die Before I Wake.')
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

Ola Elizabeth Winslow

Honored for : Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Leonard Bacon

Honored for : Sunderland Capture
Pulitzer Prize for History

Marcus Lee Hansen

Honored for : The Atlantic Migration, 1607\u20131860
Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence
(In place of an individual Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence, the Trustees approved the recommendation of the Advisory Board that a bronze plaque or scroll be designed and executed to recognize and symbolize the public services and the individual achievements of American news reporters in the war zones of Europe, Asia and Africa from the beginning of the present war.)
Pulitzer Prize for Reporting

Westbrook Pegler

(For his articles on scandals in the ranks of organized labor, which led to the exposure and conviction of George Scalise, a labor racketeer.)
Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards

The New York Times

(For the public educational value of its foreign news report, exemplified by its scope, by excellence of writing and presentation and supplementary background information, illustration, and interpretation.)