1956 Pulitzer Prize

• Public Service:
• Watsonville Register-Pajaronian for courageous exposure of corruption in public office, which led to the resignation of a district attorney and the conviction of one of his associates.
• Local Reporting, Edition Time:
• Lee Hills of the Detroit Free Press for his aggressive, resourceful and comprehensive front page reporting of the United Auto Workers' negotiations with Ford and General Motors for a guaranteed annual wage.{{cite news|title=Lee Hills gets writing award|work=Detroit Free Press|date=May 8, 1956|author=Dale Nouse|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57565186/lee-hills-gets-writing-award/|via=Newspapers.com}} ([https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57565214/lee-hills-gets-writing-award-part-2/ Part 2 of article]){{cite news|title=Hills worked 'round the clock on series|work=Detroit Free Press|date=May 8, 1956|author=Frank Angelo|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57565282/hills-worked-round-the-clock-on-series/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• Local Reporting, No Edition Time:
• Arthur Daley of The New York Times, for his outstanding coverage and commentary on the world of sports in his daily column, Sports of the Times.
• National Reporting:
• Charles L. Bartlett of the Chattanooga Times, for his original disclosures that led to the resignation of Harold E. Talbott as Secretary of the Air Force.{{cite news|title=Bartlett calls his award result of 'united effort'|work=Chattanooga Daily Times|date=May 8, 1956|author=Henry Trewhitt|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57566061/bartlett-calls-his-award-result-of/|via=Newspapers.com}} ([https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57566086/bartlett-calls-his-award-result-of/ Part 2 of article])
• International Reporting:
• William Randolph Hearst, Jr., J. Kingsbury-Smith, and Frank Conniff of the International News Service, for a series of exclusive interviews with the leaders of the Soviet Union.
• Editorial Writing:
• Lauren K. Soth of the Des Moines Register and Tribune, for "If the Russians Want More Meat...", inviting a farm delegation from the Soviet Union to visit Iowa, which led directly to the Russian farm visit to the U.S.{{cite news|title=Soth is well informed on Pulitzer-winning subject|work=Des Moines Register|date=May 13, 1956|author=Herbert D. Kelly|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57566339/soth-is-well-informed-on/|via=Newspapers.com}} ([https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57566424/soth-is-well-informed-on/ Part 2 of article])
• Editorial Cartooning:
• Robert York of The Louisville Times, for his cartoon, "Achilles", showing a bulging figure of American prosperity tapering to a weak heel labeled "Farm Prices".
• Photography:
• Staff of the New York Daily News, for its consistently excellent news picture coverage in 1955, an outstanding example of which is its photo, "Bomber Crashes in Street".

• Fiction:
• Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World).
• Drama:
• Diary of Anne Frank by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich (Random).
• History:
• The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter (Knopf).
• Biography or Autobiography:
• Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Talbot Faulkner Hamlin (Oxford Univ. Press)
• Poetry:
• Poems - North & South by Elizabeth Bishop (Houghton).
• Music:
• Symphony No. 3 by Ernst Toch (Mills), first performed by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, December 2, 1955.

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• [http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1956 Pulitzer Prizes for 1956]

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