For the best volume of verse published during the year by an American author, Five hundred dollars ($500).
Heart's Needle , by W. D. Snodgrass (Knopf )
The Jury
The Jury
Louis Untermeyer
Winners in Poetry
1960 Prize Winners
Garrett Mattingly
It is a first class history and a literary work of high order.
Lenoir Chambers
For his series of editorials on the school integration problem in Virginia, as exemplified by "The Year the Schools Closed," published January 1, 1959, and "The Year the Schools Opened," published December 31, 1959.