The Pulitzer Prizes for 1982 are:
Journalism awards edit
- Public Service:
- The Detroit News, for exposing a cover-up in the U.S. Navy, which led to reforms in the Navy.
- Local General or Spot News Reporting:
- Staff of The Kansas City Star and The Kansas City Times, for coverage of the disaster at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.
- Local Investigative Specialized Reporting:
- Paul Henderson of The Seattle Times for proving a man's innocence in a rape investigation.
- National Reporting:
- Rick Atkinson of The Kansas City Times, for maintaining a high quality of reporting on issues of national interest.
- International Reporting:
- John Darnton of The New York Times, for his reporting from Poland.
- Feature Writing:
- Saul Pett of the Associated Press, for an article on federal bureaucracy
- Commentary:
- Art Buchwald of Los Angeles Times Syndicate, for his outstanding commentary.
- Criticism:
- Martin Bernheimer of the Los Angeles Times, for his classical music criticism.
- Editorial Writing:
- Jack Rosenthal of The New York Times
- Editorial Cartooning:
- Spot News Photography:
- Ron Edmonds of the Associated Press, for his photographs covering the assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan.
- Feature Photography:
- John H. White of the Chicago Sun-Times, for his consistently excellent photographs.
Letters, Drama and Music Awards edit
- Fiction:
- Drama:
- History:
- Mary Chesnut's Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward (Yale U. Press)
- Biography or Autobiography:
- Poetry:
- The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath (a posthumous publication) (Harper & Row)
- General Non-Fiction:
- Music: