1974 Pulitzer Prize

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1974.

Journalism awards

 * Public Service:
 * Newsday, Garden City, New York, for its definitive report on the illicit narcotic traffic in the United States and abroad, entitled, The Heroin Trail.
 * Local General or Spot News Reporting:
 * Arthur M. Petacque and Hugh F. Hough of the Chicago Sun-Times, for uncovering new evidence that led to the reopening of efforts to solve the 1966 murder of Valerie Percy.
 * Local Investigative Specialized Reporting:
 * William Sherman of the New York Daily News, for his resourceful investigative reporting in the exposure of extreme abuse of the New York Medicaid program.
 * National Reporting:
 * Jack White of The Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin, for his initiative in exclusively disclosing President Nixon's Federal income tax payments in 1970 and 1971.
 * National Reporting:
 * James R. Polk of the Washington Star-News, for his disclosure of alleged irregularities in the financing of the campaign to re-elect President Nixon in 1972.
 * International Reporting:
 * Hedrick Smith of The New York Times, for his coverage of the Soviet Union and its allies in Eastern Europe in 1973.
 * Commentary:
 * Edwin A. Roberts Jr. of the National Observer, for his commentary on public affairs during 1973.
 * Criticism:
 * Emily Genauer of Newsday Syndicate, for her critical writing about art and artists.
 * Editorial Writing:
 * F. Gilman Spencer, editor of the Trentonian of Trenton, New Jersey, for his courageous campaign to focus public attention on scandals in New Jersey's state government.
 * Editorial Cartooning:
 * Paul Szep of The Boston Globe, for his editorial cartooning during 1973.
 * Feature Photography:
 * Slava "Sal" Veder of Associated Press, for his picture Burst of Joy, which illustrated the return of an American prisoner of war from captivity in North Vietnam.
 * Spot News Photography:
 * Anthony K. Roberts, a free-lance photographer of Beverly Hills, California, for his picture series, Fatal Hollywood Drama, in which an alleged kidnapper was killed.

Letters, Drama and Music Awards

 * Fiction:
 * No award given.
 * Drama:
 * No award given.
 * History:
 * The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin (Random)
 * Biography or Autobiography:
 * O'Neill, Son and Artist by Louis Sheaffer (Little)
 * Poetry:
 * The Dolphin by Robert Lowell (Farrar)
 * General Non-Fiction:
 * The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker (Free Press/Macmillan)
 * Music:
 * Notturno by Donald Martino (Ione Press) A chamber music piece commissioned by the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation and first performed May 15, 1973, at Alice Tully Hall, New York City, by Speculum Musicae.

Special Citations and Awards

 * Music:
 * Roger Sessions, a special citation to Roger Sessions for his life's work as a distinguished American composer.