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Pulitzer Awards Presented for 1955 Fiction and Drama
New York reports William Faulkner wins the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for A Fable, an allegorical World War I mutiny novel. Tennessee Williams takes the drama prize for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, with Streetcar Named Desire earning him an earlier Pulitzer. Awards set by Joseph Pulitzer's will and announced by Columbia University. Local reporting honors go to Texas reporters Caro Brown and Roland Towery for uncovering corruption and a Texas land scandal. Other prizes honor history, biography, poetry, and journalism with various recipients and cash awards.
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New York
Wil"Gara Faulkner
Tennessee Williams
Williams
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Faulkner
Gian-Carlo Menotti
Texas
Caro Brown
Alice
Tex
Daily Echo
Roland K. Towery
Cuero
Daily Record
Brown
Duval County
Associated Press
Towery
Columbus Ledger
Paul Horgan
Roswell
N. M
Great River
Rio Grande
William S. White
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New York Times
Robert A. Taft
Taft