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 == References == == External links == Pulitzer Prizes for 1943