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 "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". (Part 2 of article) (Part 2 of article)

• 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

References

References

1. (May 4, 1943). "Wife's challenge 'What did you do about it?' started publisher on prize-winning Nebraska scrap hunt". St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
2. "A rough start for America’s war in the Pacific".
3. (May 13, 1943). "Ira Wolfert, Star-Telegram war writer, is Pulitzer Prize winner". Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
4. (May 4, 1943). "Seymour and Darling win Pulitzer Prizes". The Des Moines Register.
5. (April 21, 1942). "Two lifeboats sail sea; only one reaches land". Minneapolis Morning Tribune.
6. (May 4, 1943). "Biographical sketches of award recipients in journalism and letters". St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
7. Steve Swayne. (Summer–Fall 2006). "William Schuman, World War II, and the Pulitzer Prize". The Musical Quarterly.