1965 Pulitzer Prize

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.
 * 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 Non-Fiction:
 * O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones (Viking).
 * Music:
 * No award given.