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For a distinguished American biography or autobiography teaching patriotic and unselfish services to the people, illustrated by an eminent example, Five hundred dollars ($500).

Henry James , by Leon Edel (Lippincott )

The Jury

Eric F. Goldman

Princeton University

Orville Prescott

Critic, New York Times

Winners in Biography

1963 Prize Winners

Frank Miller

For a cartoon which showed a world destroyed with one ragged figure calling to another: "I said we sure settled that dispute, didn't we!"

Ira B. Harkey

For his courageous editorials devoted to the processes of law and reason during the integration crisis in Mississippi in 1962.