1978 Pulitzer Prize

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1978.

Journalism Awards

*PublicService:
**"The Philadelphia Inquirer", for a series of articles showing abuses of power by the police in its home city.
*Local General or Spot News Reporting:
** Richard Whitt of the "Louisville Courier-Journal", for his coverage of a fire that took 164 lives at the Beverly Hills Supper Club at Southgate, Kentucky, and subsequent investigation of the lack of enforcement of state fire codes.
*Local Investigative Specialized Reporting:
** Anthony R. Dolan of the "Stamford Advocate" (Connecticut), for a series on municipal corruption.
*National Reporting:
** Gaylord D. Shaw of the "Los Angeles Times", for a series on unsafe structural conditions at the nation's major dams.
*International Reporting:
** Henry Kamm of "The New York Times", for his stories on the refugees, "boat people", from Indochina.
*Commentary:
** William Safire of "The New York Times", for commentary on the Bert Lance affair.
*Criticism:
** Walter Kerr of "The New York Times", for articles on the theater in 1977 and throughout his long career.
*Editorial Writing:
** Meg Greenfield, deputy editorial page editor of "The Washington Post", for selected samples of her work.
*Editorial Cartooning:
** Jeffrey K. MacNelly of the "Richmond News Leader".
*Spot News Photography:
** John H. Blair of a special assignment photographer for United Press International. For a photograph of an Indianapolis broker being held hostage at gunpoint.
*Feature Photography:
**J. Ross Baughman of Associated Press, for three photographs from guerrilla areas in Rhodesia.

Letters, Drama and Music Awards

*Fiction:
** "Elbow Room" by James Alan McPherson.
*Drama:
** "The Gin Game" by Donald L. Coburn.
*History:
** "The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business" by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
*Biography or Autobiography:
** "Samuel Johnson" by Walter Jackson Bate.
*Poetry:
** "Collected Poems" by Howard Nemerov.
*General Non-Fiction:
** "The Dragons of Eden" by Carl Sagan.
*Music:
** "Deja Vu" for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra by Michael Colgrass. Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and premiered by that orchestra October 20, 1977.

pecial Citations and Awards

*Journalism:
**Richard Strout, for distinguished commentary from Washington over many years as staff correspondent for The "Christian Science Monitor" and contributor to "The New Republic".
*Letters:
**E. B. White, a special citation to E. B. White for his letters, essays and the full body his work.

External links

* [http://www.pulitzer.org/cgi-bin/year.pl?year=1978&FormsButton1=Show+Winners Pulitzer Prizes for 1978] .