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. (Part 2 of article) Local General or Spot News Reporting: Melvin H. Ruder of the 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 the 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 (Random). Drama: The Subject Was Roses by Frank D. Gilroy (Samuel French). History: The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger (Princeton Univ. Press). Biography or Autobiography: Henry Adams, three volumes by Ernest Samuels (Harvard Univ. Press). Poetry: 77 Dream Songs by John Berryman (Farrar). General Nonfiction: O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones (Viking). Music: No award given.
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