The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1942.

• Public Service:
  • Los Angeles Times for its successful campaign which resulted in the clarification and confirmation for all American newspapers of the right of free press as guaranteed under the Constitution.^[1][2]
• Reporting:
  • Stanton Delaplane of the San Francisco Chronicle for his articles on the movement of several California and Oregon counties to secede to form the State of Jefferson, a forty ninth state.
• Correspondence:
  • Carlos P. Romulo of the Philippines Herald for his observations and forecasts of Far Eastern developments during a tour of the trouble centers from Hong Kong to Batavia.
• Telegraphic Reporting (National):
  • Louis Stark of The New York Times for his distinguished reporting of important labor stories during the year.
• Telegraphic Reporting (International):
  • Laurence Edmund Allen of the Associated Press for his stories of the activities of the British Mediterranean Fleet, written as an accredited correspondent attached to the fleet.^[3]
• Editorial Writing:
  • Geoffrey Parsons of the New York Herald Tribune for his distinguished editorial writing during the year.
• Editorial Cartooning:
  • Herbert Lawrence Block (Herblock) of the Newspaper Enterprise Association for "British Plane".
• Photography:
  • Milton Brooks of The Detroit News for his photo entitled, "Ford Strikers Riot".

• Novel:
  • In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow (Harcourt).
• Drama:
  • No award given.
• History:
  • Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865 by Margaret Leech (Harper).
• Biography or Autobiography:
  • Crusader in Crinoline by Forrest Wilson (Lippincott).
• Poetry:
  • The Dust Which Is God by William Rose Benet (Dodd, Mead).