The 1993 Pulitzer Prizes were:

• Public Service:
  • The Miami Herald, for coverage that not only helped readers cope with Hurricane Andrew's devastation but also showed how lax zoning, inspection and building codes had contributed to the destruction.
• Spot News Reporting:
  • Staff of the Los Angeles Times, for balanced, comprehensive, penetrating coverage under deadline pressure of the second, most destructive day of the Los Angeles riots.
• Investigative Reporting:
  • Jeff Brazil and Stephen Berry, Orlando Sentinel, for exposing the unjust seizure of millions of dollars from motorists—most of them minorities—by a sheriff's drug squad.
• Explanatory Journalism:
  • Mike Toner, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, for "When Bugs Fight Back," a series that explored the diminishing effectiveness of antibiotics and pesticides.
• Beat Reporting:
  • Paul Ingrassia and Joseph B. Whit, The Wall Street Journal, for often exclusive coverage of General Motors' management turmoil.
• National Reporting:
  • David Maraniss, The Washington Post, for his revealing articles on the life and political record of candidate Bill Clinton.
• International Reporting:
  • Roy Gutman, Newsday, For his courageous and persistent reporting that disclosed atrocities and other human rights violations in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• Feature Writing:
  • George Lardner Jr., The Washington Post, for his unflinching examination of his daughter's murder by a violent man who had slipped through the criminal justice system.
• Commentary:
  • Liz Balmaseda, The Miami Herald, for her commentary from Haiti about deteriorating political and social conditions and her columns about Cuban-Americans in Miami.
• Criticism:
  • Michael Dirda, The Washington Post, for his book reviews.
• Editorial Writing:
  • No Award Given
• Editorial Cartooning:
  • Stephen R. Benson, The Arizona Republic
• Spot News Photography:
  • Ken Geiger and William Snyder, The Dallas Morning News, for their dramatic photographs of the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
• Feature Photography:
  • Staff of Associated Press, for its portfolio of images drawn from the 1992 presidential campaign.

• Fiction:
  • A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt)
• History:
  • The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Biography or Autobiography:
  • Truman by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)
• Poetry:
  • The Wild Iris by Louise Glück (The Ecco Press)
• General Non-Fiction:
  • Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills (Simon & Schuster)

• Drama:
  • Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner (TCG)
• Music:
  • Trombone Concerto by Christopher Rouse (Boosey & Hawkes)

Premiered December 30, 1992, in New York by the New York Philharmonic.