Awards & Winners

1944 Pulitzer Prize

Check winners and nominations of 1944 Pulitzer Prize. Check awards winners of 1944 Pulitzer Prize. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

1944 Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Martin Flavin

Honored for : Journey in the Dark
([Novel])
Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence

Ernie Pyle

(For distinguished war correspondence during the year 1943)
Pulitzer Prize for Music

Howard Hanson

Honored for : Symphony No. 4
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

The New York Times

(For its survey of the teaching of American History.)
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

Henry J. Haskell

(For editorials written during the calendar year 1943.)
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning

Clifford K. Berryman

(For 'Where Is the Boat Going?')
Pulitzer Prize for Photography

Earle L. Bunker

(For his photo entitled, Homecoming.)
Pulitzer Prize for Photography

Frank Filan

(For his photo entitled, Tarawa Island, serviced by the AP.)
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

Carleton Mabee

Honored for : The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Stephen Vincent Benét

Honored for : Western Star
Pulitzer Prize for History

Merle Curti

Honored for : The Growth of American Thought
Pulitzer Prize for Reporting

Paul Schoenstein

Honored for : New York Journal-American
(For a news story published on August 12, 1943, which saved the life of a two-year-old girl in the Lutheran Hospital of New York City by obtaining penicillin.)
Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting - International

Daniel De Luce

(For his distinguished reporting during the year 1943.)
Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting - National

Dewey L. Fleming

(For his distinguished reporting during the year 1943.)
Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards

Byron Price

(For the creation and administration of the newspaper and radio codes., At the same time, the members of the Advisory Board of the Graduate School of Journalism deplore certain acts and policies of Army and Navy censorship in the handling of news at the source, and for the unreasonable suppression of information to which the American people are entitled.)
Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards

William Allen White

(A scroll indicating appreciation of Mr. White interest and services during the past seven years as a member of the Advisory Board of the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University.)
Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards

Rodgers and Hammerstein

Honored for : Oklahoma!
(A special award for Oklahoma.)