Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
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The Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction has been awarded since 1962 for a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in another category.[1] A single prize is awarded annually. Finalists have been announced since 1980.
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1960s [edit]
- 1962: The Making of the President, 1960 by Theodore White
- 1963: The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
- 1964: Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
- 1965: O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones
- 1966: Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale
- 1967: The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis
- 1968: Rousseau and Revolution, vol. 10 of The Story of Civilization, by Will and Ariel Durant.
- 1969: So Human an Animal by Rene Jules Dubos
- 1969: The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer
1970s [edit]
- 1970: Gandhi's Truth by Erik H. Erikson
- 1971: The Rising Sun by John Toland
- 1972: Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 by Barbara W. Tuchman
- 1973: Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances FitzGerald
- 1973: Children of Crisis, vols. 2 and 3, by Robert Coles
- 1974: The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
- 1975: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
- 1976: Why Survive? Being Old In America by Robert Neil Butler
- 1977: Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner
- 1978: The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
- 1979: On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson
1980s [edit]
Finalists have been announced since 1980, and are shown as the indented entries.
- 1980: Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
- The Madwoman in the Attic by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar
- The Medusa and the Snail by Lewis Thomas
- 1981: Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture by Carl E. Schorske
- China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston
- Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War by William Manchester
- Southerners: A Journalist's Odyssey by Marshall Frady
- 1982: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
- Basin and Range by John McPhee
- Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor by Diana Trilling
- 1983: Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan
- The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell
- Terrorists and Novelists by Diane Johnson
- 1984: The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr
- Conversations With the Enemy by Winston Groom and Duncan Spencer
- Endless Enemies by Jonathan Kwitny
- 1985: The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two by Studs Terkel
- Endless Enemies by Jonathan Kwitny
- Dawn to the West by Donald Keene
- 1986 (two winners): Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas
- Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld
- Habits and the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life by Robert Neelly Bellah
- 1987: Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David K. Shipler
- Rising from the Plains by John McPhee
- Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir by Cyra McFadden
- 1988: The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
- Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
- Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society by Daniel Callahan
- 1989: A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
- The Last Farmer by Howard Kohn
- Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris
1990s [edit]
- 1990: And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson
- Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
- A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East 1914-1922 by David Fromkin
- 1991: The Ants by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson
- Looking for a Ship by John McPhee
- River of Traps: A Village Life by William duBuys and Alex Harris
- 1992: The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin
- Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics by Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. Edsall
- Broken Vessels by Andre Dubus
- 1993: Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills
- Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father by Richard Rodriguez
- Where the Buffalo Roam by Anne Matthews
- A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War by Susan Griffin
- 1994: Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick
- The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud by Peter Gay
- The End of the Twentieth Century: And the End of the Modern Age by John Lukacs
- 1995: The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
- How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story by John Berendt
- 1996: The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg
- Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler
- Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and The Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett
- 1997: Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger
- Fame and Folly by Cynthia Ozick
- The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond by Samuel G. Freedman
- 1998: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
- How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
- 1999: Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
- The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris
- Crime and Punishment in America by Elliott Currie
2000s [edit]
- 2000: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
- The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
- Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds by Scott Weidensaul
- 2001: Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
- 2002: Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter
- The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon
- War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals by David Halberstam
- 2003: "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
- The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit by Ellen Meloy
- The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
- 2004: Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
- The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military by Dana Priest
- Rembrandt's Jews by Steven Nadler
- 2005: Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll
- The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea
- Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta
- 2006: Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins
- The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer
- Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
- 2007: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
- Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness by Pete Earley
- Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks
- 2008: The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander
- The Cigarette Century by Allan M. Brandt
- The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
- 2009: Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
- The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe by William I. Hitchcock
- Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur L. Herman
2010s [edit]
- 2010: The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman
- The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
- How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities by John Cassidy
- 2011: Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas G. Carr
- Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne
- 2012: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
- One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing by Diane Ackerman
- Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men by Mara Hvistendahl
- 2013: Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
- The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature by David George Haskell
See also [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ "The Pulitzer Prize" (web). pulitzer.org. Retrieved February 27, 2008.
External links [edit]
- List of General Nonfiction Winners, Pulitzer Prizes.
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