The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1932 .

Journalism awards

• public service: Indianapolis News for its successful campaign to eliminate waste in city management and to reduce the tax levy.
• beat reporting : W. C. Richards, D. D. Martin, J. S. Pooler, F. D. Webb and J. N. W. Sloan of Detroit Free Press for their account of the parade of the America Legion during the 1931 convention in Detroit.
• correspondence: Charles G. Ross of St. Louis Post-Dispatch for his article entitled, "The Country's Plight, What Can Be Done About It?", a discussion of economic situation of the United States
• correspondence: Walter Duranty of New York Times for his series of dispatches on Russia specifically the working out of the Five Year Plan.
• editorial writing: none given
• editorial cartooning: John T. McCutcheon of Chicago Tribune, "A Wise Economist Asks a Question."

Letters awards

• biography or autobiography: "Theodore Roosevelt" by Henry F. Pringle
• fiction: "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
• drama: "Of Thee I Sing" by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin
• history: "My Experiences in the World War" by John J. Pershing
• poetry: "The Flowering Stone" by George Dillon