1940's The Arts | Awards

PULITZER PRIZES

1940

Fiction: The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

Drama: The Time of Your Life, by William Saroyan

Poetry: Collected Poems, by Mark Van Doren

1941

Fiction: no award

Drama: There Shall Be No Night, by Robert E. Sherwood

Poetry: Sunder land Capture, by Leonard Bacon

1942

Fiction: In This Our Life, by Ellen Glasgow

Drama: no award

Poetry: The Dust Which Is God, by William Rose Benét

1943

Fiction: Dragon's Teeth, by Upton Sinclair

Drama: The Skin of Our Teeth, by Thornton Wilder

Poetry: A Witness Tree, by Robert Frost

Music: Secular Cantata no. 2, ("A Free Song"), by William Schuman

1944

Fiction: Journey in the Dark, by Martin...