The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1930.
Journalism awards
Public Service: No award given Reporting: Russell Owen of The New York Times, for his reports by radio of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition. Correspondence: Leland Stowe of the New York Herald Tribune, for the series of articles covering conferences on reparations and the establishment of the international bank. Editorial Writing: No award given
Editorial Cartooning: Charles R. Macauley of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, for "Paying for a Dead Horse". Special Citations and Awards A special award to William O. Dapping of the Auburn Citizen (New York), for his report on a riot at Auburn Prison for the Associated Press.
Letters and Drama Awards
Novel: Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge (Houghton) Drama: The Green Pastures by Marc Connelly (Farrar) History: The War of Independence by Claude H. Van Tyne (Houghton) Biography or Autobiography: The Raven; A Biography of Sam Houston by Marquis James (Bobbs) Poetry: Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken (Scribner)