Pulitzer Prize - Nonfiction

The Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Winners/ 2009 - 1962

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 any other category.

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