1940 Pulitzer Prize

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1940.

Journalism Awards

*Public Service:
** "Waterbury Republican-American" for its campaign exposing municipal graft.
*Reporting:
** S. Burton Heath of the "New York World-Telegram" for his expose of the frauds perpetrated by Federal judge Martin T. Manton, who resigned and was tried and imprisoned.
*Correspondence:
** Otto D. Tolischus of "The New York Times" for his dispatches from Berlin.
*Editorial Writing:
** Bart Howard of the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" for his distinguished editorial writing during the year.
*Editorial Cartooning:
** Edmund Duffy of "The Baltimore Sun" for "The Outstretched Hand".

Letters and Novel Awards

*Novel:
** "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck.
*Drama:
** "The Time of Your Life" by William Saroyan.
*History:
** "Abraham Lincoln: The War Years" by Carl Sandburg.
*Biography or Autobiography:
** "Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII" by Ray Stannard Baker.
*Poetry:
** "Collected Poems" by Mark Van Doren.

External links

* [http://www.pulitzer.org/cgi-bin/year.pl?year=1940&FormsButton1=Show+Winners Pulitzer Prizes for 1940] .