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Pulitzer Prizes: Special Citations
(For years not listed, no award was made.)
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1938
- Edmonton [Alberta] Journal, special bronze plaque for
editorial leadership in defense of freedom of the press in province of
Alberta
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1941
- New York Times, for the public educational value of its
foreign news report
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1944
- Byron Price, director of the Office of Censorship, for the creation
and administration of the newspaper and radio codes; Mrs. William Allen
White, for her husband's interest and services during the past seven
years as a member of the Advisory Board of the Graduate School of
Journalism, Columbia University; Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein
II, for their musical Oklahoma!
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1945
- The cartographers of the American press, for their war maps
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1947
- (Pulitzer centennial year.) Columbia University and the Graduate
School of Journalism, for their efforts to maintain and advance the high
standards governing the Pulitzer Prize awards; the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, for its unswerving adherence to the public and
professional ideals of its founder and its leadership in American
journalism
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1948
- Dr. Frank D. Fackenthal, for his interest and service
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1951
- Cyrus L. Sulzberger (New York Times), for his exclusive
interview with Archbishop Stepinac in a Yugoslav prison
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1952
- Kansas City Star, for coverage of 1951 floods; Max Kase
(New York Journal–American), for exposures of bribery in
basketball
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1953
- New York Times, for its 17-year publication of “Review
of the Week,” and Lester Markel, its founder
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1957
- Kenneth Roberts, for his historical novels
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1958
- Walter Lippmann (New York Herald Tribune), for his
“wisdom, perception and high sense of responsibility” in his
commentary on national and international affairs
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1960
- Garrett Mattingly, for The Armada
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1961
- American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War, as a
distinguished example of American book publishing
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1964
- Gannett Newspapers, Rochester, N.Y.
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1973
- James Thomas Flexner, for his biography George
Washington
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1974
- Roger Sessions, for his “life's work in music”
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1976
- John Hohenberg, for “services for 22 years as Administrator of
the Pulitzer Prizes”; Scott Joplin, for his contributions to
American music
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1977
- Alex Haley, for his novel, Roots
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1978
- E. B. White of New Yorker magazine and Richard L. Strout of
The Christian Science Monitor
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1982
- Milton Babbitt, “for his life's work as a distinguished and
seminal American composer”
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1984
- Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), for “books full of playful
rhymes, nonsense words and strange illustrations”
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1985
- William Schuman, for “more than half a century of contribution
to American music as a composer and educational leader”
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1987
- Joseph Pulitzer Jr., “for extraordinary services to American
journalism and letters during his 31 years as chairman of the Pulitzer
Prize Board and for his accomplishments as an editor and
publisher”
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1992
- Maus, Art Spiegelman
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1996
- Herb Caen (San Francisco Chronicle), “for his
extraordinary and continuing contribution as a voice and conscience of
his city”
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1998
- George Gershwin
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1999
- Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington, who “made an
indelible contribution to art and culture”
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2006
- Edmund S. Morgan, for his creative and deeply influential body of
work as an American historian and posthumously to Thelonious Monk, for
his significant and enduring impact on the evolution of jazz.
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2007
- John Coltrane, a posthumous special citation for his masterful
improvisation, supreme musicianship and iconic centrality to the history
of jazz; and to Ray Bradbury for his distinguished, prolific, and deeply
influential career as an unmatched author of science fiction and
fantasy.
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