title: 1950 Pulitzer Prize
text: # 1950 Pulitzer Prize
  
  The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1950.
  
  ## Journalism awards
  
  * Public Service:
     * The Chicago Daily News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for the work of George Thiem and Roy J. Harris, respectively, in exposing the presence of 37 Illinois newspapermen on an Illinois State payroll.
  * Local Reporting:
     * Meyer Berger of The New York Times, for his 4,000-word story on the mass killings by Howard Unruh in Camden, New Jersey.
  * National Reporting:
     * Edwin O. Guthman of The Seattle Times, for his series on the clearing of Communist charges of Professor Melvin Rader, who had been accused of attending a secret Communist school.
  * International Reporting:
     * Edmund Stevens of The Christian Science Monitor, for his series of 43 articles written over a three-year residence in Moscow entitled, "This Is Russia Uncensored".
  * Editorial Writing:
     * Carl M. Saunders of the Jackson Citizen Patriot, for distinguished editorial writing during the year.
  * Editorial Cartooning:
     * James T. Berryman of the Washington Evening Star, for "All Set for a Super-Secret Session in Washington".
  * Photography:
     * Bill Crouch of The Oakland Tribune, for his picture, "Near Collision at Air Show".
  
  ## Letters, Drama and Music Awards
  
  * Fiction:
     * The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (Sloane).
  * Drama:
     * South Pacific by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Joshua Logan (Random).
  * History:
     * Art and Life in America by Oliver Waterman Larkin (Rinehart).
  * Biography or Autobiography:
     * John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis (Knopf).
  * Poetry:
     * Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks (Harper).
  * Music;
     * Music in The Consul by Gian-Carlo Menotti (G. Schirmer), produced at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York.
  