1940 Pulitzer Prize

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1940.

Journalism awards

• Public Service:
• Waterbury Republican-American for its campaign exposing municipal graft.
• Honorable mention to the San Francisco Chronicle for "its part in settling the water front and warehouse strike in San Francisco, June 22 to Dec. 1, 1939".
• Reporting:
• S. Burton Heath of the New York World-Telegram for his expose of the frauds perpetrated by Federal judge Martin T. Manton, who resigned and was tried and imprisoned.
• Correspondence:
• Otto D. Tolischus of The New York Times for his dispatches from Berlin.
• Honorable mention to Lloyd Lehrbas of the Associated Press for his dispatches from Warsaw, Bucharest, and Ankara.
• Editorial Writing:
• Bart Howard of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for his distinguished editorial writing during the year.

• Editorial Cartooning:
• Edmund Duffy of The Baltimore Sun for "The 'Outstretched Hand'".

Letters and Novel Awards

• Novel:
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking).
• Drama:
• The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan (Harcourt).
• History:
• ' by Carl Sandburg (Harcourt).
• Biography or Autobiography:
• Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII by Ray Stannard Baker (Doubleday).
• Poetry:
• Collected Poems by Mark Van Doren (Holt).