1966 Pulitzer Prize

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 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 Associated Press, for his coverage of the war in Vietnam.
• Editorial Writing:
• * Robert Lasch of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for his distinguished editorial writing in 1965.
• 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 war in Vietnam 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 Non-Fiction:
• * Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale.
• Music:
• * Variations for Orchestra by Leslie Bassett