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1982 Pulitzer Prizes
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Journalism
Category
Winners
Finalists
Public Service
Public Service
The Detroit News
For a series by Sydney P. Freedberg and David Ashenfelter which exposed the U.S. Navy's cover-up of circumstances surrounding the deaths of seamen aboard ship and which led to significant reforms in naval procedures.
Finalists:
Staff of
Los Angeles Herald Examiner
Staff of
New York Daily News
Staff of
The Providence Journal-Bulletin
National Reporting
National Reporting
Rick Atkinson of
The Kansas City Times
For the uniform excellence of his reporting and writing on stories of national import.
Finalists:
Washington Bureau Staff of
United Press International
Liz Jeffries and Rick Edmonds of
The Philadelphia Inquirer
International Reporting
International Reporting
John Darnton of
The New York Times
For his reporting from Poland.
Finalists:
Dan Fisher of
Los Angeles Times
Ray Moseley of
Chicago Tribune
Bob Wyrick of
Newsday
Feature Writing
Feature Writing
Saul Pett of
Associated Press
For an article profiling the federal bureaucracy.
Finalists:
Erik Lacitis of
The Seattle Times
H.G. Bissinger of
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Commentary
Commentary
Art Buchwald of
Los Angeles Times Syndicate
Finalists:
William Greider of
The Washington Post
William J. Raspberry of
The Washington Post
Criticism
Criticism
Martin Bernheimer of
Los Angeles Times
For classical music criticism.
Finalists:
Marvin Kitman of
Newsday
Donal Henahan of
The New York Times
Editorial Writing
Editorial Writing
Jack Rosenthal of
The New York Times
Finalists:
Richard C. McCord of
Santa Fe Reporter
Joe H. Stroud of
Detroit Free Press
Feature Photography
Feature Photography
John H. White of
Chicago Sun-Times
For consistently excellent work on a variety of subjects.
Finalists:
Ellis C. Reed of
San Francisco Examiner
Walter C. Stricklin of
The Florida Times-Union
Local General or Spot News Reporting
Local General or Spot News Reporting
Staff of
Kansas City Star and Kansas City Times
For coverage of the Hyatt Regency Hotel disaster and identification of its causes.
Finalists:
Lucy Morgan of
St. Petersburg Times
Ken Wells of
The Miami Herald
Staff of
Louisville Courier-Journal
Local Investigative Specialized Reporting
Local Investigative Specialized Reporting
Paul Henderson of
The Seattle Times
For reporting which proved the innocence of a man convicted of rape.
Finalists:
Joel Brinkley of
Louisville Courier-Journal
Sydney P. Freedberg and David Ashenfelter of
The Detroit News
Editorial Cartooning
Editorial Cartooning
Ben Sargent of
Austin (TX) American-Statesman
Finalists:
Paul Conrad of
Los Angeles Times
Don Wright of
The Miami News
Spot News Photography
Spot News Photography
Ron Edmonds of
Associated Press
For his coverage of the Reagan assassination attempt.
Finalists:
Don Rypka of
United Press International
Staff of
Fort Lauderdale News and Sun Sentinel
Special Citations
Special Citations and Awards
Special Citations and Awards
Milton Babbitt
For his life's work as a distinguished and seminal American composer.
Books, Drama & Music
Category
Winners
Finalists
Fiction
Fiction
Rabbit Is Rich
, by John Updike (Knopf)
Finalists:
Housekeeping
, by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)
A Flag for Sunrise
, by Robert Stone (Knopf)
Drama
Drama
A Soldier's Play
, by Charles Fuller
Finalists:
History
History
Mary Chesnut's Civil War
, by C. Vann Woodward (Yale U. Press)
Finalists:
White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American & South African History
, by George M. Fredrickson (Oxford University Press)
Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1945
, by Akira Iriye (Harvard University Press)
Biography
Biography
Grant: A Biography
, by William McFeely (Norton)
Finalists:
Waldo Emerson
, by Gay Wilson Allen (Viking)
Mornings on Horseback
, by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)
Poetry
Poetry
The Collected Poems
, by Sylvia Plath (Harper & Row)
Finalists:
Dream Flights
, by Dave Smith (University of Illinois)
The Southern Cross
, by Charles Wright (Random House)
General Nonfiction
General Nonfiction
The Soul of a New Machine
, by Tracy Kidder (Atlantic/Little)
Finalists:
Basin and Range
, by John McPhee (Farrar)
Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor
, by Diana Trilling (Harcourt Brace)
Music
Music
Concerto for Orchestra
, by Roger Sessions
First performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra on October 23, 1981, Seiji Ozawa, conductor.
Finalists:
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