The following are thePulitzer Prizes for 1966.

• Public Service:
  • The Boston Globe, for its campaign to prevent confirmation of Francis X. Morrissey as a federal district judge in Massachusetts.^[1]
• Local General or Spot News Reporting:
  • Staff of theLos Angeles Times, for its coverage of theWatts Riots.^[2]
• Local Investigative Specialized Reporting:
  • John Anthony Frasca ofThe Tampa Tribune, for his investigation and reporting of two robberies that resulted in the freeing of an innocent man.^[3]
• National Reporting:
  • Haynes Johnson of theWashington Evening Star, for his distinguished coverage of the civil rights conflict centered aboutSelma, Alabama, and particularly his reporting of its aftermath.^[4]
• International Reporting:
  • Peter Arnett of theAssociated Press, for his coverage of theVietnam War.^[5]
• Editorial Writing:
  • Robert Lasch of theSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, for his distinguished editorial writing in 1965, exemplified by "The Containment of Ideas".^[6][7]
• Editorial Cartooning:
  • Don Wright ofThe Miami News, for "You Mean You Were Bluffing?"^[8][9]
• Photography:
  • Kyoichi Sawada ofUnited Press International, for his combat photography of the Vietnam War during 1965. A photo entitled "Flee to Safety", depicting a Vietnamese family wading across a river after their village was attacked, was cited as a noted example of his work.^[10]

• Fiction:
  • Collected Stories byKatherine Anne Porter (Harcourt).
• Drama:
  • No award given.^[11]
• History:
  • The Life of the Mind in America byPerry Miller (Harcourt).
• Biography or Autobiography:
  • A Thousand Days byArthur Schlesinger, Jr. (Houghton).
• Poetry:
  • Selected Poems byRichard Eberhart (New Directions).
• General Nonfiction:
  • Wandering Through Winter byEdwin Way Teale (Dodd).
• Music:
  • Variations for Orchestra byLeslie Bassett (Peters)
    It was first performed in the United States byEugene Ormandy and thePhiladelphia Orchestra at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia on October 22, 1965.

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