1966 Pulitzer Prize
The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1966.
Journalism awards
- Public Service:
- * The Boston Globe, for its campaign to prevent confirmation of Francis X. Morrissey as a federal district judge in Massachusetts.
- Local General or Spot News Reporting:
- * Staff of the Los Angeles Times, for its coverage of the Watts Riots.
- Local Investigative Specialized Reporting:
- * John Anthony Frasca of The Tampa Tribune, for his investigation and reporting of two robberies that resulted in the freeing of an innocent man.
- National Reporting:
- * Haynes Johnson of the Washington Evening Star, for his distinguished coverage of the civil rights conflict centered about Selma, Alabama, and particularly his reporting of its aftermath.
- International Reporting:
- * Peter Arnett of the Associated Press, for his coverage of the Vietnam War.
- Editorial Writing:
- * Robert Lasch of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for his distinguished editorial writing in 1965, exemplified by "The Containment of Ideas".
- Editorial Cartooning:
- * Don Wright of The Miami News, for "You Mean You Were Bluffing?"
- Photography:
- * Kyoichi Sawada of United Press International, for his combat photography of the Vietnam War during 1965. A photo entitled "Flee to Safety", depicting a Vietnamese family wading across a river after their village was attacked, was cited as a noted example of his work.
Letters, Drama and Music Awards
- Fiction:
- * Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter.
- Drama:
- *No award given.
- History:
- * The Life of the Mind in America by Perry Miller.
- Biography or Autobiography:
- * A Thousand Days by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr..
- Poetry:
- * Selected Poems by Richard Eberhart.
- General Nonfiction:
- * Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale.
- Music:
- * Variations for Orchestra by Leslie Bassett