Awards & Winners

1942 Pulitzer Prize

Check winners and nominations of 1942 Pulitzer Prize. Check awards winners of 1942 Pulitzer Prize. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

1942 Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Ellen Glasgow

Honored for : In This Our Life
([Novel])
Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence

Carlos P. Romulo

(For his observations and forecasts of Far Eastern developments during a tour of the trouble centers from Hong Kong to Batavia.)
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

Los Angeles Times

(For its successful campaign which resulted in the clarification and confirmation for all American newspapers of the right of free press as guaranteed under the Constitution.)
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

Geoffrey Parsons

(For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.)
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning

Herblock

(For 'British Plane')
Pulitzer Prize for Photography

Milton Brooks

(For his photo entitled, Ford Strikers Riot.)
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

Forrest Wilson

Honored for : Crusader in Crinoline
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

William Rose Benét

Honored for : The Dust Which Is God
Pulitzer Prize for History

Margaret Leech

Honored for : Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865
Pulitzer Prize for Reporting

Stanton Delaplane

(For his articles on the movement of several California and Oregon counties to secede to form a forty ninth state.)
Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting - International

Laurence Edmund Allen

(For his stories of the activities of the British Mediterranean Fleet, written as an accredited correspondent attached to the fleet.)
Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting - National

Louis Stark

(For his distinguished reporting of important labor stories during the year.)