Journalism Awards
* Public Service: o Miami Daily News for its campaign for the recall of the Miami City Commission.
* Reporting: o Thomas Lunsford Stokes of Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance for his series of articles on alleged intimidation of workers for the Works Progress Administration in Pennsylvania and Kentucky during an election. The articles were published in The New York World-Telegram.
* Correspondence: o Louis P. Lochner of Associated Press for his dispatches from Berlin
* Editorial Writing: o Ronald G. Callvert of The Oregonian, Portland for his distinguished editorial writing during the year as exemplified by the editorial entitled My Country 'Tis of Thee.
* Editorial Cartooning: o Charles G. Werner of Daily Oklahoman for Nomination for 1938.
Letters and Drama Awards
* Novel: o The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
* Drama: o Abe Lincoln in Illinois by Robert E. Sherwood.
* History: o A History of American Magazines by Frank Luther Mott.
* Biography or Autobiography: o Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren.
* Poetry: o Selected Poems by John Gould Fletcher.
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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.
The Grapes of Wrath (1939). It won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize and Steinbeck won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007.
No one. The Pulitzer Prize was first awarded in 1917.
Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel "The Age of Innocence" in 1921.
Toni Morrison won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her novel, Beloved.
Ellen Glasgow won the 1942 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her novel, In This Our Life.
John Steinbeck won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel, The Grapes of Wrath, in 1940.
"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.
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