The Pulitzer Prizes for 1978 are:
Journalism awards edit
- Public Service:
- 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:
- Spot News Photography:
- John H. Blair, special assignment photographer for United Press International, for a photograph of an Indianapolis broker being held hostage at gunpoint by Anthony Kiritsis.
The prize-winning spot news photograph
The prize-winning set of feature photographs
- Feature Photography:
- J. Ross Baughman of Associated Press, for three photographs from guerrilla areas in Rhodesia.
Letters, Drama and Music Awards edit
- Fiction:
- Drama:
- The Gin Game by Donald L. Coburn (Drama Book Specialists)
- History:
- The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (Belknap/Harvard University Press)
- Biography or Autobiography:
- Poetry:
- Collected Poems by Howard Nemerov (Univ. of Chicago)
- General Non-Fiction:
- Music:
- Deja Vu for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra by Michael Colgrass (Carl Fischer Music)
Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and premiered by that orchestra October 20, 1977.
- Deja Vu for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra by Michael Colgrass (Carl Fischer Music)
Special Citations and Awards edit
- 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.