Awards & Winners

1949 Pulitzer Prize

Check winners and nominations of 1949 Pulitzer Prize. Check awards winners of 1949 Pulitzer Prize. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

1949 Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

James Gould Cozzens

Honored for : Guard of Honor
Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Arthur Miller

Honored for : Death of a Salesman
Pulitzer Prize for Music

Virgil Thomson

Honored for : Louisiana Story
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

C. P. Trussel

(For consistent excellence covering the national scene from Washington.)
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

Lincoln Journal Star

(For the campaign establishing the "Nebraska All-Star Primary" presidential preference primary which spotlighted, through a bi-partisan committee, issues early in the presidential campaign.)
Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting

Malcolm Johnson

(For his series of 24 articles entitled Crime on the Waterfront in New York City. (The film On the Waterfront was based on this series of articles.))
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting

Price Day

(For his series of 12 articles entitled, 'Experiment in Freedom)
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

John H. Crider

(For distinguished editorial writing during the year.)

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
John H. Crider
For distinguished editorial writing during the year.
Herbert Berridge Elliston
For distinguished editorial writing during the year.
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning

Lute Pease

(For 'Who Me?')
Pulitzer Prize for Photography

Nat Fein

(For his photo, Babe Ruth Bows Out.)
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

Robert E. Sherwood

Honored for : Roosevelt and Hopkins
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Peter Viereck

Honored for : Terror and decorum
Pulitzer Prize for History

Roy Franklin Nichols

Honored for : The Disruption of American Democracy
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

Herbert Berridge Elliston

(For distinguished editorial writing during the year.)

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
John H. Crider
For distinguished editorial writing during the year.
Herbert Berridge Elliston
For distinguished editorial writing during the year.