For the best volume of verse published during the year by an American author, Five hundred dollars ($500).
Lord Weary's Castle , by Robert Lowell (Harcourt )
The Jury
The Jury
Henry S. Canby
W.L. Cross
Louis Untermeyer
Winners in Poetry
1947 Prize Winners
No author named
For their efforts to maintain and advance the high standards governing the Pulitzer Prize awards (Pulitzer centennial year).
Brooks Atkinson
For distinguished correspondence during 1946, as exemplified by his series of articles on Russia.
Vaughn Shoemaker
For his cartoon, "Still Racing His Shadow."