1967 Pulitzer Prize

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1967.

Journalism awards

 * Public Service:
 * The Milwaukee Journal, for its successful campaign to stiffen the law against water pollution in Wisconsin, a notable advance in the national effort for the conservation of natural resources.
 * Louisville Courier-Journal, for its successful campaign to control the Kentucky strip mining industry, a notable advance in the national effort for the conservation of natural resources.
 * Local General or Spot News Reporting:
 * Robert V. Cox of the Chambersburg Public Opinion (Pennsylvania), for his vivid deadline reporting of a mountain manhunt that ended with the killing of a deranged sniper who had terrorized the community.
 * Local Investigative Specialized Reporting:
 * Gene Miller of The Miami Herald, whose initiative and investigative reporting helped to free two persons wrongfully convicted of murder.
 * National Reporting:
 * Stanley Penn and Monroe Karmin of The Wall Street Journal, for their investigative reporting of the connection between American crime and gambling in the Bahamas.
 * International Reporting:
 * R. John Hughes of The Christian Science Monitor, for his thorough reporting of the attempted Communist coup in Indonesia in 1965 and the purge that followed in 1965-66.
 * Editorial Writing:
 * Eugene Patterson of the Atlanta Constitution, for his editorials during the year.
 * Editorial Cartooning:
 * Patrick Oliphant of The Denver Post, for "They Won't Get Us To The Conference Table... Will They?", published February 1, 1966.
 * Photography:
 * Jack R. Thornell of the Associated Press, New Orleans bureau, for his picture of the shooting of James Meredith in Mississippi by a roadside rifleman.

Letters, Drama and Music awards

 * Fiction:
 * The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (Farrar).
 * Drama:
 * A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee (Atheneum).
 * History:
 * Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann (Knopf).
 * Biography or Autobiography:
 * Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain by Justin Kaplan (Simon & Schuster).
 * Poetry:
 * Live or Die by Anne Sexton (Houghton).
 * General Non-Fiction:
 * The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis (Cornell University Press).
 * Music:
 * Quartet No. 3 by Leon Kirchner (Associated Music Publishers), first performed by the Beaux Arts Quartet in The Town Hall, January 27, 1967