1967 Pulitzer Prize

• Public Service:
• The Milwaukee Journal, for its successful campaign to stiffen the law against water pollution in Wisconsin, a notable advance in the national effort for the conservation of natural resources.
• Louisville Courier-Journal, for its successful campaign to control the Kentucky strip mining industry, a notable advance in the national effort for the conservation of natural resources.{{cite news|title=The long battle: a look back|work=The Courier-Journal|location=Louisville, Kentucky|author=John Petterman|date=May 2, 1967|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57847288/the-long-battle-a-look-back/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• Local General or Spot News Reporting:
• Robert V. Cox of the Chambersburg Public Opinion (Pennsylvania), for his vivid deadline reporting of a mountain manhunt that ended with the killing of a deranged sniper who had terrorized the community.{{cite news|title=Robert V. Cox earns Pulitzer Prize in journalism|work=Public Opinion|location=Chambersburg, Pennsylvania|date=May 2, 1967|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57847877/robert-v-cox-earns-pulitzer-prize-in/|via=Newspapers.com}} ([https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57847958/robert-v-cox-earns-pulitzer-prize-in/ Part 2 of article])
• Local Investigative Specialized Reporting:
• Gene Miller of The Miami Herald, whose initiative and investigative reporting helped to free two persons wrongfully convicted of murder.{{cite news|title=Herald's Gene Miller wins Pulitzer|work=The Miami Herald|author=Robert Hardin|date=May 2, 1967|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57848459/heralds-gene-miller-wins-pulitzer/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• National Reporting:
• Stanley Penn and Monroe Karmin of The Wall Street Journal, for their investigative reporting of the connection between American crime and gambling in the Bahamas.
• International Reporting:
• R. John Hughes of The Christian Science Monitor, for his thorough reporting of the attempted Communist coup in Indonesia in 1965 and the purge that followed in 1965-66.{{cite news|title=Snub Salisbury for Pulitzer Prize|work=The Des Moines Register|date=May 2, 1967|agency=AP|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57849044/snub-salisbury-for-pulitzer-prize/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• Editorial Writing:
• Eugene Patterson of the Atlanta Constitution, for his editorials during the year.
• Editorial Cartooning:
• Patrick Oliphant of The Denver Post, for "They Won't Get Us To The Conference Table... Will They?", published February 1, 1966.{{cite news|title=Oliphant's Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoon for 1966|work=Wisconsin State Journal|date=May 8, 1967|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57849517/oliphants-pulitzer-prize-winning/|via=Newspapers.com}}

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• Photography:
• Jack R. Thornell of the Associated Press, New Orleans bureau, for his picture of the shooting of James Meredith in Mississippi by a roadside rifleman.

• Fiction:
• The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (Farrar).
• Drama:
• A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee (Atheneum).{{cite news|title=Albee, '67 winner, calls Pulitzer Prize 'an honor in decline'|work=The Courier-Journal|location=Louisville, Kentucky|author=Glenna Syse|agency=Chicago Daily News Service|date=May 7, 1967|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57847593/albee-67-winner-calls-pulitzer-prize/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• History:
• Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann (Knopf).
• Biography or Autobiography:
• Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain by Justin Kaplan (Simon & Schuster).
• Poetry:
• Live or Die by Anne Sexton (Houghton).
• General Nonfiction:
• The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis (Cornell University Press).
• Music:
• Quartet No. 3 by Leon Kirchner (Associated Music Publishers), first performed by the Beaux Arts Quartet in The Town Hall, January 27, 1967

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