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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]

Contents 1 1960s 2 1970s 3 1980s 4 1990s 5 2000s 6 2010s 7 See also 8 References

1960s

• 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

• 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

• 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 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
• 1986: Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas
• 1986: Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld
• 1987: Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David K. Shipler
• 1988: The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
• 1989: A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan

1990s

• 1990: And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson
• 1991: The Ants by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson
• 1992: The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin
• 1993: Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills
• 1994: Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick
• 1995: The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
• 1996: The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg
• 1997: Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger
• 1998: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
• 1999: Annals of the Former World by John McPhee

2000s

• 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
  • A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
  • Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover
• 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

• 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

See also

• Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

References

Pulitzer Prizes 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1962–1975 The Making of the President, 1960 by Theodore White (1962) The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman (1963) Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter (1964) O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones (1965) Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale (1966) The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis (1967) Rousseau and Revolution, vol. 10 of The Story of Civilization, by Will and Ariel Durant (1968) So Human an Animal by Rene Jules Dubos/The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer (1969) Gandhi's Truth by Erik H. Erikson (1970) The Rising Sun by John Toland (1971) Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 by Barbara W. Tuchman (1972) Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances FitzGerald (1973) The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker (1974) Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (1975) 1976–2000 Why Survive? Being Old in America by Robert Neil Butler (1976) Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner (1977) The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan (1978) On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson (1979) Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter (1980) Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture by Carl E. Schorske (1981) The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (1982) Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan (1983) The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr (1984) The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two by Studs Terkel (1985) 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 (1986) Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David K. Shipler (1987) The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (1988) A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan (1989) And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson (1990) The Ants by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson (1991) The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin (1992) Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills (1993) Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick (1994) The Beak of the Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time by Jonathan Weiner (1995) The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg (1996) Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger (1997) Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (1998) Annals of the Former World by John McPhee (1999) Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (2000) 2001–2025 Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix (2001) Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter (2002) "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power (2003) Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum (2004) Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll (2005) Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins (2006) The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (2007) The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander (2008) Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon (2009) The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman (2010) Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011) Complete list (1962–1975) (1976–2000) (2001–2025)