Pulitzer Prize Winners for General Non-Fiction

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The Pulitzer Prize, started by New York World publisher Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), is awarded each year for books published the previous year. The General Non-Fiction category was started in 1962.

Note: There was a tie in 1969, 1973 and 1986.

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  1. 1962
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    The Making of the President 1960
    by Theodore H. White

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  2. 1963
    The Guns of August
    by Barbara W. Tuchman

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  3. 1964
    Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Vintage)
    by Richard Hofstadter

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  4. 1965
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    O Strange New World: American Culture, The Formative Years
    by Howard Mumford Jones

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  5. 1967

  6. 1969

  7. 1970
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    Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence
    by Erik H Erikson

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  8. 1972
    Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945
    by Barbara W. Tuchman

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  9. 1973
    Children of Crisis
    by Robert Coles

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  10. 1973
    Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
    by Frances FitzGerald

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  11. 1974
    The Denial of Death
    by Ernest Becker

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  12. 1975
    Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
    by Annie Dillard

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  13. 1976
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    Why Survive? Being Old in America
    by Robert N. Butler

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  14. 1977
    Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
    by William W. Warner

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  15. 1979
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    ON HUMAN NATURE
    by Edward O. Wilson

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  16. 1980
    Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
    by Douglas R. Hofstadter

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  17. 1981
    Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture (Vintage)
    by Carl E. Schorske

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  18. 1982
    The Soul Of A New Machine
    by Tracy Kidder

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  19. 1983
    Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
    by Susan Sheehan

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  20. 1984
    The Social Transformation of American Medicine
    by Paul Starr

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  21. 1985
    The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
    by Studs Terkel

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  22. 1986
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    Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
    by Joseph Lelyveld

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  23. 1987
    Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
    by David K. Shipler

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  24. 1988
    The Making of the Atomic Bomb
    by Richard Rhodes

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  25. 1989

  26. 1991
    The Ants
    by Bert Hölldobler

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  27. 1992
    The Prize : The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
    by Daniel Yergin

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  28. 1994
    Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
    by David Remnick

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  29. 1995
    The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
    by Jonathan Weiner

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  30. 1996
    The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
    by Tina Rosenberg

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  31. 1998
    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
    by Jared M. Diamond

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  32. 1999
    Annals of the Former World
    by John McPhee

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  33. 2000
    Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
    by John W. Dower

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  34. 2001
    Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
    by Herbert P. Bix

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  35. 2003
    A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
    by Samantha Power

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  36. 2004
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    GULAG: A HISTORY OF THE SOVIET CAMPS.
    by Anne. Applebaum

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  37. 2006

  38. 2007
    The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
    by Lawrence Wright

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Comments

Good Grief! — 1 year ago

I’ve been reading (pretty much only) non-fiction my entire life, yet…

I’VE NOT READ A SINGLE ONE OF THESE!

Clearly a trip to the library is imminently forthcoming… ;)