Letters, Drama, and Music

Fiction

Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf)

Drama

A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller

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 the late Sylvia Plath (a posthumous publication) (Harper & Row)

General Nonfiction

The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder (Atlanti'Little)

Music

Concerto for Orchestra by Roger Sessions

First performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra on October 23, 1981, Seiji Ozawa, conductor.

Special Citations

Special Awards and Citations - Music

Milton Babbitt

For his life's work as a distinguished and seminal American composer.

Pulitzer Prize Board

Members

The board overseeing the prizes

Press Releases

No press releases are currently recorded for this year.

Journalism

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.

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.

Local Investigative Specialized Reporting

Paul Henderson of The Seattle Times

For reporting which proved the innocence of a man convicted of rape.

National Reporting

Rick Atkinson of The Kansas City Times

For the uniform excellence of his reporting and writing on stories of national import.

International Reporting

John Darnton of The New York Times

For his reporting from Poland.

Feature Writing

Saul Pett of Associated Press

For an article profiling the federal bureaucracy.

Commentary

Art Buchwald of Los Angeles Times Syndicate

Criticism

Martin Bernheimer of Los Angeles Times

For classical music criticism.

Editorial Writing

Jack Rosenthal of The New York Times

Editorial Cartooning

Ben Sargent of Austin (TX) American-Statesman

Spot News Photography

Ron Edmonds of Associated Press

For his coverage of the Reagan assassination attempt.

Feature Photography

John H. White of Chicago Sun-Times

For consistently excellent work on a variety of subjects.