1910's The Arts | Awards

The Pulitzer Prizes were first awarded in 1917 for journalism, biography, and history. Prizes for drama and fiction were added in 1918. In 1918 the Poetry Society of America, founded in 1910, gave its first award.

1918

Poetry Society of America Prize: Love Songs, by Sara Teasdale

Pulitzer Prize for fiction: His Family, by Ernest Poole

Pulitzer Prize for drama: Why Marry?, by Jesse Lynch Williams

1919

Poetry Society of America Prizes: Cornhuskers, by Carl Sandburg; Old Road to Paradise, by Margaret Widdemer

Pulitzer Prize for fiction: The Magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington

Pulitzer Prize for drama: no award