1943 Pulitzer Prize

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1943.

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 "Doc" Lipes Commandeers a Submarine Officers' Wardroom", "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 (National):
 * No award
 * Telegraphic Reporting (International):
 * 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 (Des Moines, Iowa), "for his editorials published during the calendar year 1942".
 * Editorial Cartooning:
 * Jay Norwood Darling of the Register and Tribune (Des Moines, Iowa), for "What a Place For a Waste Paper Salvage Campaign".
 * Photography:
 * Frank Noel of the Associated Press, for his photo entitled, "Water!", portraying a desperate sailor on a lifeboat fleeing from the Japanese invasion of Singapore.

Letters, Drama and Music Awards

 * Novel:
 * Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair (Viking)
 * Drama:
 * The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder (Harper)
 * History:
 * Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes (Houghton)
 * Biography or Autobiography:
 * Admiral of the Ocean Sea by Samuel Eliot Morison (Little)
 * Poetry:
 * A Witness Tree by Robert Frost (Holt)
 * Music:
 * Secular Cantata No. 2: A Free Song by William Schuman. Performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and published by G. Schirmer, Inc., New York