Awards & Winners

1943 Pulitzer Prize

Check winners and nominations of 1943 Pulitzer Prize. Check awards winners of 1943 Pulitzer Prize. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

1943 Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Upton Sinclair, Jr.

Honored for : Dragon's Teeth
([Novel])
Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence

Hanson W. Baldwin

(For his report of his wartime tour of the Southwest Pacific.)
Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Thornton Wilder

Honored for : The Skin of Our Teeth
Pulitzer Prize for Music

William Howard Schuman

Honored for : Secular Cantata No. 2
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

Omaha World-Herald

(For its initiative and originality in planning a state-wide 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 our war industries with necessary scrap material.)
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

Forrest W. Seymour

(For his editorials published during the calendar year 1942.)
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning

Jay Norwood Darling

(For 'What a Place For a Waste Paper Salvage Campaign.')
Pulitzer Prize for Photography

Frank Noel

(For his photo entitled, Water! serviced by the AP.)
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

Samuel Eliot Morison

Honored for : Admiral of the Ocean Sea
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Robert Frost

Honored for : A Witness Tree
Pulitzer Prize for History

Esther Forbes

Honored for : Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
Pulitzer Prize for Reporting

George Weller

(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.)
Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting - International

Ira Wolfert

(For his series of three articles on the fifth battle of the Solomons.)