1940

• Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII by Ray Stannard Baker
  1940 · Pulitzer Prizes · Biography
• The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan
  1940 · Pulitzer Prizes · Drama
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  1940 · Pulitzer Prizes · Novel
• Collected Poems by Mark Van Doren
  1940 · Pulitzer Prizes · Poetry
• Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg
  1940 · Pulitzer Prizes · History