The Pulitzer Prizes for 1921:

Journalism awards

• Public Service:
  • The Boston Post, for its exposure of the operations of Charles Ponzi by a series of articles which finally led to his arrest.^[1]
• Reporting:
  • Louis Seibold of New York World, for an interview with Woodrow Wilson.
• Editorial Writing:
  • No award given. Jurors recommended the prize be given to William Peter Hamilton of The Wall Street Journal for two articles on "Our Envied Scrap Heap"^[2] and "Soviets and Feudalism",^[3] but the Advisory Board declined to make an award.^[4]

Letters and Drama Awards

• Novel:
  • The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)
• Drama:
  • Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale (Appleton)
• History:
  • The Victory at Sea by William Sowden Sims in collaboration with Burton J. Hendrick (Doubleday)
• Biography or Autobiography:
  • The Americanization of Edward Bok by Edward Bok (Scriber)