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*Drama: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; fiction: Edwin O'Connor's The Edge of Sadness; nonfiction: Theodore H. White's The Making of the President 1960; history: Lawrence Gibson's The Triumphant Empire; verse: Alan Dugan; music: Robert Ward's opera, The Crucible; public service by a newspaper: Panama City (Fla.) News-Herald; editorial writing: Thomas Storke of the Santa Barbara (Calif.) News-Press; local reporting under deadline: Robert Mullins of the Salt Lake City Deseret News-Telegram; local reporting not under deadline: George Bliss of the Chicago Tribune; national reporting: Nathan Caldwell and Gene Graham of the Nashville Tennessean; international reporting: Walter Lippmann; cartoon: Edmund S. Valtman of the Hartford (Conn.) Times; news photography: Paul Vathis of the A.P.
† Reminiscent of a 1941 incident in which Columbia President Nicholas Murray Butler coldly refused to let his colleagues on the board send the trustees their choice for the fiction prize: For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway's controversial novel about the Spanish Civil War.