1950 Pulitzer Prize

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1950.

Journalism awards

 * Public Service:
 * The Chicago Daily News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for the work of George Thiem and Roy J. Harris, respectively, in exposing the presence of 37 Illinois newspapermen on an Illinois State payroll.
 * Local Reporting:
 * Meyer Berger of The New York Times, for his 4,000-word story on the mass killings by Howard Unruh in Camden, New Jersey.
 * National Reporting:
 * Edwin O. Guthman of The Seattle Times, for his series on the clearing of Communist charges of Professor Melvin Rader, who had been accused of attending a secret Communist school.
 * International Reporting:
 * Edmund Stevens of The Christian Science Monitor, for his series of 43 articles written over a three-year residence in Moscow entitled, "This Is Russia Uncensored".
 * Editorial Writing:
 * Carl M. Saunders of the Jackson Citizen Patriot, for distinguished editorial writing during the year.
 * Editorial Cartooning:
 * James T. Berryman of the Washington Evening Star, for "All Set for a Super-Secret Session in Washington".
 * Photography:
 * Bill Crouch of The Oakland Tribune, for his picture, "Near Collision at Air Show".

Letters, Drama and Music Awards

 * Fiction:
 * The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (Sloane).
 * Drama:
 * South Pacific by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Joshua Logan (Random).
 * History:
 * Art and Life in America by Oliver Waterman Larkin (Rinehart).
 * Biography or Autobiography:
 * John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis (Knopf).
 * Poetry:
 * Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks (Harper).
 * Music;
 * Music in The Consul by Gian-Carlo Menotti (G. Schirmer), produced at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York.