1970 Pulitzer Prize

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1970.

Journalism awards

• Public Service:
  • Newsday, Garden City, New York, for its three-year investigation and exposure of secret land deals in eastern Long Island, which led to a series of criminal convictions, discharges and resignations among public and political officeholders in the area.
• Local General or Spot News Reporting:
  • Thomas Fitzpatrick of the Chicago Sun-Times, for his article about the violence of youthful radicals in Chicago, A Wild Night's Ride With SDS.
• Local Investigative Specialized Reporting:
  • Harold E. Martin of the Montgomery Advertiser and Alabama Journal, for his expose of a commercial scheme for using Alabama prisoners for drug experimentation and obtaining blood plasma from them.
• National Reporting:
  • William J. Eaton of the Chicago Daily News, for disclosures about the background of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr., in connection with his nomination for the United States Supreme Court.
• International Reporting:
  • Seymour M. Hersh of the Dispatch News Service, Washington, D.C. For his exclusive disclosure of the Vietnam War tragedy at the hamlet of My Lai.
• Commentary:
  • Marquis Childs of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for distinguished commentary during 1969.
• Criticism:
  • Ada Louise Huxtable of The New York Times, for distinguished criticism during 1969.
• Editorial Writing:
  • Philip L. Geyelin of The Washington Post, for his editorials during 1969.
• Editorial Cartooning:
  • Thomas F. Darcy of Newsday, Garden City, New York. For his editorial cartooning during 1969.
• Spot News Photography:
  • Steve Starr of Associated Press, Albany, New York Bureau, for his news photo taken of militant black students following their takeover of Willard Straight Hall Cornell University, Campus Guns.
• Feature Photography:
  • Dallas Kinney of The Palm Beach Post, West Palm Beach, Florida. For his portfolio of pictures of Florida migrant workers, Migration to Misery.

Letters, Drama and Music Awards

• Fiction:
  • Collected Stories by Jean Stafford (Farrar)
• Drama:
  • No Place to be Somebody by Charles Gordone (Bobbs-Merrill)
• History:
  • Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department by Dean Acheson (Norton)
• Biography or Autobiography:
  • Huey Long by T. Harry Williams (Knopf)
• Poetry:
  • Untitled Subjects by Richard Howard (Atheneum)
• General Non-Fiction:
  • Gandhi's Truth by Erik Erikson (Norton)
• Music:
  • Time's Encomium by Charles Wuorinen (C. F. Peters)
    Premiered in its entirety at the Berkshire Music Festival on August 16, 1969.

External links

• Official website