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 ", "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:
• ' by William Schuman. Performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and published by G. Schirmer, Inc., New York