Pulitzer Prize for General Non-FictionCheck all the winners of Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. |
Year | Winner | Winner Work | |
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2014 | Dan Fagin | Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation | |
2013 | Gilbert King | Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America | |
2012 | Stephen Greenblatt | The Swerve: How the World Became Modern | |
2011 | Siddhartha Mukherjee | The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (An elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal, into the long history of an insidious disease that, despite treatment breakthroughs, still bedevils medical science.) |
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2010 | David E. Hoffman | The Dead Hand (A well documented narrative that examines the terrifying doomsday competition between two superpowers and how weapons of mass destruction still imperil humankind.) |
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2009 | Douglas A. Blackmon | Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (A precise and eloquent work that examines a deliberate system of racial suppression and that rescues a multitude of atrocities from virtual obscurity.) |
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2008 | Saul Friedländer | The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 | |
2007 | Lawrence Wright | The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 | |
2006 | Caroline Elkins | Imperial Reckoning | |
2005 | Steve Coll | Ghost Wars | |
2004 | Anne Applebaum | Gulag: A History | |
2003 | Samantha Power | A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide | |
2002 | Diane McWhorter | Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution | |
2001 | Herbert P. Bix | Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan | |
2000 | John W. Dower | Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II | |
1999 | John McPhee | Annals of the Former World | |
1998 | Jared Diamond | Guns, Germs, and Steel | |
1997 | Richard Kluger | Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris | |
1996 | Tina Rosenberg | The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism | |
1995 | Jonathan Weiner | The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time | |
1994 | David Remnick | Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire | |
1993 | Garry Wills | Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America | |
1992 | Daniel Yergin | The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power | |
1991 | Bert Hölldobler | The Ants | |
E. O. Wilson | The Ants | ||
1990 | Dale Maharidge | And Their Children After Them | |
Michael Williamson | And Their Children After Them | ||
1989 | Neil Sheehan | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam | |
1988 | Richard Rhodes | The Making of the Atomic Bomb | |
1987 | David K. Shipler | Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land | |
1986 | J. Anthony Lukas | Common Ground | |
1986 | Joseph Lelyveld | Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White | |
1985 | Studs Terkel | The Good War | |
1984 | Paul Starr | The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry | |
1983 | Susan Sheehan | Is There No Place on Earth for Me? | |
1982 | Tracy Kidder | The Soul of a New Machine | |
1981 | Carl Emil Schorske | Fin-de-Siècle Vienna | |
1980 | Douglas Hofstadter | Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid | |
1979 | E. O. Wilson | On Human Nature | |
1978 | Carl Sagan | The Dragons of Eden | |
1977 | William W. Warner | Beautiful Swimmers | |
1976 | Robert Neil Butler | Why Survive? Being Old In America | |
1975 | Annie Dillard | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | |
1974 | Ernest Becker | The Denial of Death | |
1973 | Frances FitzGerald | Fire in the Lake | |
1973 | Robert Coles | Children of Crisis | |
1972 | Barbara W. Tuchman | Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 | |
1971 | John Toland | The Rising Sun | |
1970 | Erik Erikson | Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence | |
1969 | René Dubos | So Human an Animal | |
1969 | Norman Mailer | Armies of the Night | |
1968 | Will Durant | The Story of Civilization | |
Ariel Durant | The Story of Civilization | ||
1967 | David Brion Davis | The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture | |
1966 | Edwin Way Teale | Wandering Through Winter | |
1965 | Howard Mumford Jones | O Strange New World | |
1964 | Richard Hofstadter | Anti-intellectualism in American Life | |
1963 | Barbara W. Tuchman | The Guns of August | |
1962 | Theodore White | The Making of the President, 1960 |