The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1974.

• Public Service:
  • Newsday, Garden City, New York, for its definitive report on the illicit narcotic traffic in the United States and abroad, entitled, The Heroin Trail.
• Local General or Spot News Reporting:
  • Arthur M. Petacque and Hugh F. Hough of the Chicago Sun-Times, for uncovering new evidence that led to the reopening of efforts to solve the 1966 murder of Valerie Percy.
• Local Investigative Specialized Reporting:
  • William Sherman of the New York Daily News, for his resourceful investigative reporting in the exposure of extreme abuse of the New York Medicaid program.
• National Reporting:
  • Jack White of The Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin, for his initiative in exclusively disclosing President Nixon's Federal income tax payments in 1970 and 1971.^[1]
• National Reporting:
  • James R. Polk of the Washington Star-News, for his disclosure of alleged irregularities in the financing of the campaign to re-elect President Nixon in 1972.

• International Reporting:
  • Hedrick Smith of The New York Times, for his coverage of the Soviet Union and its allies in Eastern Europe in 1973.
• Commentary:
  • Edwin A. Roberts Jr. of the National Observer, for his commentary on public affairs during 1973.
• Criticism:
  • Emily Genauer of Newsday Syndicate, for her critical writing about art and artists.
• Editorial Writing:
  • F. Gilman Spencer, editor of the Trentonian of Trenton, New Jersey, for his courageous campaign to focus public attention on scandals in New Jersey's state government.
• Editorial Cartooning:
  • Paul Szep of The Boston Globe, for his editorial cartooning during 1973.^[2]
• Feature Photography:
  • Slava "Sal" Veder of Associated Press, for his picture Burst of Joy, which illustrated the return of an American prisoner of war from captivity in North Vietnam.^[3][4]
• Spot News Photography:
  • Anthony K. Roberts, a free-lance photographer of Beverly Hills, California, for his picture series, Fatal Hollywood Drama, in which an alleged kidnapper was killed.

The prize-winning series of spot news photographs, Fatal Hollywood Drama

• Fiction:
  • No award given.
• Drama:
  • No award given.
• History:
  • The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin (Random)
• Biography or Autobiography:
  • O'Neill, Son and Artist by Louis Sheaffer (Little)
• Poetry:
  • The Dolphin by Robert Lowell (Farrar)
• General Non-Fiction:
  • The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker (Free Press/Macmillan)^[5]
• Music:
  • Notturno by Donald Martino (Ione Press)
    A chamber music piece commissioned by the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation and first performed May 15, 1973, at Alice Tully Hall, New York City, by Speculum Musicae.

• Music:
  • Roger Sessions, a special citation to Roger Sessions for his life's work as a distinguished American composer.

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