1965 Pulitzer Prize
Appearance
The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1965.
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 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 Associated Press, for his combat photography of the war in South Vietnam during 1964.
Letters, Drama and Music Awards
- Fiction:
- Drama:
- History:
- The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger (Princeton Univ. Press).
- Biography or Autobiography:
- Henry Adams, three volumes by Ernest Samuels (Harvard Univ. Press).
- Poetry:
- General Non-Fiction:
- Music:
- No award given.