Letters, Drama, and Music
Fiction: The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
Drama: How To Succeed In Business Without Really Tryingby Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows
History: The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West 1763-1766 by Lawrence H. Gipson
Biography or Autobiography: (No Award)
Poetry: Poems by Alan Dugan
General Nonfiction: The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White
Music: The Crucible by Robert Ward, based on the play by Arthur Miller.
Journalism
Public Service: Panama City News-Herald
Local Reporting; Edition Time: Robert D. Mulllins of Deseret News, Salt Lake City, UT
Local Reporting; No Edition Time: George Bliss of Chicago Tribune
National Reporting: Nathan G. Caldwell and Gene S. Graham of Nashville Tennessean
International Reporting: Walter Lippmann of New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
Editorial Writing: Thomas M. Storke of Santa Barbara News-Press
Editorial Cartooning: Edmund S. Valtman of The Hartford Times
Photography: Paul Vathis of Associated Press, For the photograph "Serious Steps"
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960 was awarded to Allen Drury for his novel "Advise and Consent."
N. Scott Momaday won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his book, House Made of Dawn.
Allen Drury won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel, Advise and Consent.
Ellen Glasgow won the 1942 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her novel, In This Our Life.
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007.
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007.
Martin Flavin won the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for his novel, Journey in the Dark. The Pulitzer Prize Board changed the category from "Novel" to "Fiction" in 1948.
Alfred Uhry won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1985 for his play "Driving Miss Daisy."
Toni Morrison won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her novel, Beloved.
Philip Roth won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for his novel, American Pastoral (Houghton Mifflin).
The novel "A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2011.
The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize in the Novel category. The Pulitzer Prize board changed the category to "Fiction" in 1948.
Toni Morrison won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her novel, Beloved.
Cormac McCarthy won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel, The Road.