Pulitzer Prizes

Nominated by the advisory board of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and formally awarded by President Nicholas Murray Butler in behalf of the University's trustees, the annual Pulitzer Prizes this week were awarded as follows:

Novel. To John Phillips Marquand, for The Late George Apley, $1,000.

Play. To Novelist Thornton Niven Wilder for Our Town (TIME, Feb. 14), his second Pulitzer Prize (first awarded for The Bridge of San Luis Rey in 1928), $1,000.

History. To Paul Herman Buck, for The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900, $1,000.

Biography. The award for distinguished U. S. biography was divided between: Odell Shepard for Pedlar's Progress, The Life of Bronson Alcott (TIME, May 10), $300, and former Pulitzer Prizewinner Marquis James for his two volumes on Andrew Jackson (TIME, April 3, 1933; Oct. 4), $500.

Verse. To Marya Zaturenska, for her collection of poems, Cold Morning Sky, $1,000.

For most distinguished Washington Correspondence of the year New York Timesman Arthur Krock won his second Pulitzer Prize, $500. This one was for an exclusive interview in which President Roosevelt discussed his political philosophy.

Reporting of the fact that Supreme Court Justice Hugo La Fayette Black was once a member of the Ku Klux Klan won Raymond Sprigle of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, $1,000.

Editorial. Most distinguished editorial writing was that of William Wesley Waymack, associate editor of the Des Moines Register and Tribune, $500.

Cartoon of the year was an anti-War drawing by Vaughn Shoemaker of the Chicago Daily News, $500.

Public Service. A $500 gold medal was awarded to the Bismarck (N. Dak.) Tribune for its news reports and editorials which started a movement for self-help among victims of the dust bowl. To the Edmonton (Alberta) Journal went a special bronze plaque for leadership in defense of a free press in the Province of Alberta.

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