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For the best volume of verse published during the year by an American author, One thousand dollars ($1,000).

John Browns Body, by Stephen Vincent Benét (Farrar)

The Jury

Wilbur L. Cross(Chair)

Robert M. Lovett

Bliss Perry

Winners in Poetry

1929 Prize Winners

Paul Scott Mowrer

For his coverage of international affairs including the Franco-British Naval Pact and Germany's campaign for revision of the Dawes Plan.