1965 Pulitzer Prize

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1965.

Journalism Awards

*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.
*Local General or Spot News Reporting:
** Melvin H. Ruder of "Hungry Horse News", a weekly in Columbia Falls, Montana, 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.
*Local Investigative Specialized Reporting:
** Gene Goltz of the "Houston Post", for his expose of government corruption in Pasadena, Texas, which resulted in widespread reforms.
*National Reporting:
** Louis M. Kohlmeier of "The Wall Street Journal", for his enterprise in reporting the growth of the fortune of President Lyndon B. Johnson and his family.
*International Reporting:
** J. A. Livingston of the "Philadelphia Bulletin", 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.
*Editorial Writing:
** John R. Harrison of "The Gainesville Sun", for his successful editorial campaign for better housing in his city.
*Editorial Cartooning:
** No award given.
*Photography:
**Horst Faas of Associated Press, for his combat photography of the war in South Vietnam during 1964.

Letters, Drama and Music Awards

*Fiction:
** "The Keepers of the House" by Shirley Ann Grau.
*Drama:
** "The Subject Was Roses" by Frank D. Gilroy.
*History:
** "The Greenback Era" by Irwin Unger.
*Biography or Autobiography:
** "Henry Adams", three volumes by Ernest Samuels.
*Poetry:
** "77 Dream Songs" by John Berryman.
*General Non-Fiction:
** "O Strange New World" by Howard Mumford Jones.
*Music:
** No award given.

External links

* [http://www.pulitzer.org/cgi-bin/year.pl?year=1965&FormsButton1=Show+Winners Pulitzer Prizes for 1965] .