Awards & Winners

1965 Pulitzer Prize

Check winners and nominations of 1965 Pulitzer Prize. Check awards winners of 1965 Pulitzer Prize. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

1965 Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Shirley Ann Grau

Honored for : The Keepers of the House
Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Frank D. Gilroy

Honored for : The Subject Was Roses
Pulitzer Prize for 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.)
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

Gene Goltz

([Local Investigative Specialized Reporting] For his expose of government corruption Pasadena, Texas, which resulted in widespread reforms.)
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

Louis M. Kohlmeier

(For his enterprise in reporting the growth of the fortune of President Lyndon B. Johnson and his family.)
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting

J. A. Livingston

(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.)
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

John R. Harrison

(For his successful editorial campaign for better housing in his city.)
Pulitzer Prize for Photography

Horst Faas

(For his combat photography of the war in South Vietnam during 1964.)
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

Ernest Samuels

Honored for : Henry Adams
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

John Berryman

Honored for : 77 Dream Songs
Pulitzer Prize for History

Irwin Unger

Honored for : The Greenback Era
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

Howard Mumford Jones

Honored for : O Strange New World
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting

Melvin H. Ruder

Honored for : Hungry Horse News
([Local General or Spot News Reporting] 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.)