1943 Pulitzer Prize

Journalism awards

• Public Service: The Omaha World-Herald, "for its initiative and originality in planning a statewide campaign for the collection of scrap metal for the war effort. The Nebraska plan was adopted on a national scale by the daily newspapers, resulting in a united effort which succeeded in supplying war industries with necessary scrap material."
• Reporting: George Weller of the Chicago Daily News for ", "his graphic story of how a U.S. Navy Pharmacist's Mate under enemy waters in a submarine performed an operation for appendicitis saving a sailor's life".
• Correspondence: Hanson W. Baldwin of The New York Times, "for his report of his wartime tour of the Southwest Pacific".
• Telegraphic Reporting :.
• Telegraphic Reporting : Ira Wolfert of the North American Newspaper Alliance, "for his series of three articles on the fifth battle of the Solomons".
• Editorial Writing: Forrest W. Seymour of the Register and Tribune, "for his editorials published during the calendar year 1942".
• Editorial Cartooning: Jay Norwood Darling of the Register and Tribune, for "What a Place For a Waste Paper Salvage Campaign".
• Photography: Frank Noel of the Associated Press, for his photo entitled, "Water!"

  Letters, Drama and Music Awards

• Novel: Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair
• Drama: The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
• History: Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes
• Biography or Autobiography: Admiral of the Ocean Sea by Samuel Eliot Morison
• Poetry: A Witness Tree by Robert Frost
• Music: by William Schuman Performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and published by G. Schirmer, Inc., New York