1920 Pulitzer Prize
Awards for journalism and related fields
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The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1920.
Journalism awards
- Public Service:
- No award given. Jurors recommended the prize be given to the Minneapolis Daily News for its Americanization campaign, but the Advisory Board declined to make an award.[1]
- Reporting:
- John J. Leary, Jr. of the New York World, for the series of articles written during the United Mine Workers coal strike of 1919.
- Editorial Writing:
- Harvey E. Newbranch of the Evening World Herald (Omaha) for an editorial entitled "Law and the Jungle", condemning the Omaha race riot of 1919.[2]
Letters and Drama Awards
- Drama:
- Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O'Neill (Boni)
- History:
- Biography or Autobiography:
- The Life of John Marshall by Albert J. Beveridge (Houghton)