1978 Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prizes for 1978 are:
Journalism awards
- Public Service:
- *The Philadelphia Inquirer, for a series of articles showing abuses of power by the police in its home city.
- Local General or Spot News Reporting:
- * Richard Whitt of the Louisville Courier-Journal, for his coverage of a fire that took 164 lives at the Beverly Hills Supper Club at Southgate, Kentucky, and subsequent investigation of the lack of enforcement of state fire codes.
- Local Investigative Specialized Reporting:
- * Anthony R. Dolan of the Stamford Advocate, for a series on municipal corruption.
- National Reporting:
- * Gaylord D. Shaw of the Los Angeles Times, for a series on unsafe structural conditions at the nation's major dams.
- International Reporting:
- * Henry Kamm of The [New York Times], for his stories on the refugees, boat people, from Indochina.
- Commentary:
- * William Safire of The New York Times, for commentary on the Bert Lance affair.
- Criticism:
- * Walter Kerr of The New York Times, for articles on the theater in 1977 and throughout his long career.
- Editorial Writing:
- * Meg Greenfield, deputy editorial page editor of The Washington Post, for selected samples of her work.
- Editorial Cartooning:
- * Jeffrey K. MacNelly of the Richmond News Leader.
- Spot News Photography:
- * John H. Blair, special assignment photographer for United Press International, for a photograph of an Indianapolis broker being held hostage at gunpoint by Anthony Kiritsis.
- Feature Photography:
- *J. Ross Baughman of Associated Press, for three photographs from guerrilla areas in Rhodesia.
Letters, Drama and Music Awards
- Fiction:
- * Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
- Drama:
- * The Gin Game by Donald L. Coburn
- History:
- * The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
- Biography or Autobiography:
- * Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate
- Poetry:
- * Collected Poems by Howard Nemerov
- General Nonfiction:
- * The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
- Music:
- * Deja Vu for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra by Michael Colgrass