The Pulitzer Prizes for 1982 are:
Journalism awards 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: Ben Sargent of the Austin American-Statesman 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 Fiction: Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) Drama: A Soldier's Play, by Charles Fuller (Hill and Wang) 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 Sylvia Plath (a posthumous publication) (Harper & Row) General Nonfiction: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (Atlantic-Little ) Music: Concerto for Orchestra, by Roger Sessions (E. B. Marks Music)
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