1965 Pulitzer Prize

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.
• Drama:
• * The Subject Was Roses by Frank D. Gilroy.
• History:
• * The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger.
• Biography or Autobiography:
• * Henry Adams, three volumes by Ernest Samuels.
• Poetry:
• * 77 Dream Songs by John Berryman.
• General Nonfiction:
• * O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones.
• Music:
• * No award given.