1982 Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prizes for 1982 are:

Journalism awards

 * Public Service:
 * The Detroit News, for exposing a cover-up in the U.S. Navy, which led to reforms in the Navy.
 * Local General or Spot News Reporting:
 * Staff of  The Kansas City Star  and The Kansas City Times, for coverage of the disaster at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.
 * Local Investigative Specialized Reporting:
 * Paul Henderson of  The Seattle Times  for proving a man's innocence in a rape investigation.
 * National Reporting:
 * Rick Atkinson of  The Kansas City Times, for maintaining a high quality of reporting on issues of national interest.
 * International Reporting:
 * John Darnton of The New York Times, for his reporting from Poland.
 * Feature Writing:
 * Saul Pett of the Associated Press, for an article on federal bureaucracy
 * Commentary:
 * Art Buchwald of Los Angeles Times Syndicate, for his outstanding commentary.
 * Criticism:
 * Martin Bernheimer of the Los Angeles Times, for his classical music criticism.
 * Editorial Writing:
 * Jack Rosenthal of The New York Times
 * Editorial Cartooning:
 * Ben Sargent of the Austin American-Statesman
 * Spot News Photography:
 * Ron Edmonds of the Associated Press, for his photographs covering the assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan.
 * Feature Photography:
 * John H. White of the Chicago Sun-Times, for his consistently excellent photographs.

Letters, Drama and Music Awards

 * Fiction:
 * Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf)
 * Drama:
 * A Soldier's Play, by Charles Fuller (Hill and Wang)
 * History:
 * Mary Chesnut's Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward (Yale U. Press)
 * Biography or Autobiography:
 * Grant: A Biography by William McFeely (Norton)
 * Poetry:
 * The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath (a posthumous publication) (Harper & Row)
 * General Non-Fiction:
 * The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (Atlantic-Little )
 * Music:
 * Concerto for Orchestra, by Roger Sessions (E. B. Marks Music)