1950 Pulitzer Prize

Journalism awards

• Public Service:
• * The Chicago Daily News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for the work of George Thiem and Roy J. Harris, respectively, in exposing the presence of 37 Illinois newspapermen on an Illinois State payroll.
• Local Reporting:
• * Meyer Berger of The New York Times, for his 4,000-word story on the mass killings by Howard Unruh in Camden, New Jersey.
• National Reporting:
• * Edwin O. Guthman of The Seattle Times, for his series on the clearing of Communist charges of Professor Melvin Rader, who had been accused of attending a secret Communist school.
• International Reporting:
• * Edmund Stevens of The Christian Science Monitor, for his series of 43 articles written over a three-year residence in Moscow entitled, "This Is Russia Uncensored".
• Editorial Writing:
• * Carl M. Saunders of the Jackson Citizen Patriot, for distinguished editorial writing during the year.
• Editorial Cartooning:
• * James T. Berryman of the Washington Evening Star, for "All Set for a Super-Secret Session in Washington".
• Photography:
• * Bill Crouch of The Oakland Tribune, for his picture, "Near Collision at Air Show".

  Letters, Drama and Music Awards

• Fiction:
• * The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr..
• Drama:
• *South Pacific by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Joshua Logan.
• History:
• * Art and Life in America by Oliver Waterman Larkin.
• Biography or Autobiography:
• * John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis.
• Poetry:
• * Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks.
• Music;
• * Music in The Consul by Gian-Carlo Menotti, produced at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York.