1926 Pulitzer Prize

Journalism awards

• Public Service:
• *Columbus Enquirer Sun, for the service which it rendered in its brave and energetic fight against the Ku Klux Klan; against the enactment of a law barring the teaching of evolution; against dishonest and incompetent public officials and for justice to the Negro and against lynching.
• Reporting:
• *William Burke Miller of Louisville Courier-Journal, for his work in connection with the story of the trapping in Sand Cave, Kentucky, of Floyd Collins.
• Editorial Writing:
• *Edward M. Kingsbury of The New York Times, for "".
• Editorial Cartooning:
• *D. R. Fitzpatrick of St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "The Laws of Moses and the Laws of Today".

  Letters and Drama Awards

• Novel:
• *Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
• Drama:
• *Craig's Wife by George Kelly
• History:
• *A History of the United States by Edward Channing
• Biography or Autobiography:
• *The Life of Sir William Osler by Harvey Cushing
• Poetry:
• *What's O'Clock by Amy Lowell