1966 Pulitzer Prize

• Public Service:
• The Boston Globe, for its campaign to prevent confirmation of Francis X. Morrissey as a federal district judge in Massachusetts.{{cite news|title=Globe Pulitzer team effort|work=The Boston Globe|date=May 3, 1966|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57844642/globe-pulitzer-team-effort/|via=Newspapers.com}} ([https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57844695/globe-pulitzer-team-effort-part-2/ Part 2 of article])
• Local General or Spot News Reporting:
• Staff of the Los Angeles Times, for its coverage of the Watts Riots.{{cite news|title='66 Pulitzer fifth for The Times since 1942|work=Los Angeles Times|date=May 3, 1966|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57845232/66-pulitzer-fifth-for-the-times-since/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• 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.{{cite news|title=Tribune's John Frasca wins Pulitzer Prize|work=The Tampa Tribune|date=May 3, 1966|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57845600/tribunes-john-frasca-wins-pulitzer/|via=Newspapers.com}} ([https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57845653/tribunes-john-frasca-wins-pulitzer/ Part 2 of article])
• 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.{{cite web|title=Haynes Johnson of Washington Evening Star|publisher=The Pulitzer Prizes|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/haynes-johnson|accessdate=2020-08-22}}
• International Reporting:
• Peter Arnett of the Associated Press, for his coverage of the Vietnam War.{{cite web|title=Peter Arnett of Associated Press|publisher=The Pulitzer Prizes|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/peter-arnett|accessdate=2020-08-22}}
• Editorial Writing:
• Robert Lasch of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for his distinguished editorial writing in 1965, exemplified by "The Containment of Ideas".{{cite news|title=Editorials on Viet Nam helped win Pulitzer Prize for Lasch|work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|date=May 3, 1966|author=Donal Grant|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56559853/editorials-on-viet-nam-helped-win/|via=Newspapers.com}} ([https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56559903/editorials-on-viet-nam-helped-win/ Part 2 of article]){{cite news|title=The Containment of Ideas|work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|author=Robert Lasch|date=January 17, 1965|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56560209/the-containment-of-ideas/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• Editorial Cartooning:
• Don Wright of The Miami News, for "You Mean You Were Bluffing?"{{cite news|title=Don Wright took just four years to win Pulitzer|work=The Miami News|author=Haines Colbert|date=May 3, 1966|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57846231/don-wright-took-just-four-years-to-win/|via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite news|title=Pulitzer winner Don Wright|work=The Miami News|date=May 3, 1966|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57846439/pulitzer-winner-don-wright/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• Photography:
• Kyoichi Sawada of United Press International, for his combat photography of the Vietnam War 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.{{cite news|title=Boston newspaper wins Pulitzer Prize|work=Quad-City Times|location=Davenport, Iowa|agency=AP|date=May 3, 1966|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48564932/boston-newspaper-wins-pulitzer-prize/|via=Newspapers.com}}

• Fiction:
• Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt).
• Drama:
• No award given.{{cite news|title=No Pulitzer for drama—A perceptive decision|work=The Boston Globe|author=Kevin Kelly|date=May 4, 1966|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57845032/no-pulitzer-for-drama-a-perceptive/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• History:
• The Life of the Mind in America by Perry Miller (Harcourt).
• Biography or Autobiography:
• A Thousand Days by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (Houghton).
• Poetry:
• Selected Poems by Richard Eberhart (New Directions).
• General Nonfiction:
• Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale (Dodd).
• Music:
• Variations for Orchestra by Leslie Bassett (Peters)
  It was first performed in the United States by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia on October 22, 1965.

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