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WINNERS OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION

The Pulitzer Prize, started by New York World publisher Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), is awarded each year for books published the previous year. During some years no award was given.

Click on the links below to find these books in our catalog.

• 2007 - The looming tower : Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11 , by Lawrence Wright
• 2006 - Imperial reckoning: the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya, by Caroline Elkins
• 2005 - Ghost wars: the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001, by Steve Coll
• 2004 - Gulag: a history, by Anne Applebaum
• 2003 - A problem from hell: America and the age of genocide, by Samanth Power
• 2002 - Carry me home: Birmingham, Alabama, the climactic battle of 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, the public health, and the unabashed triumph of Philip Morris, by Richard Kluger
• 1996 - The haunted land : facing 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 & power, by Daniel Yergin
• 1991 - The ants, by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson
• 1990 - And their children after them : the legacy of Let us now praise famous men, James Agee, Walker Evans, and the rise and fall of cotton in the South, by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamsoni
• 1989 - A bright shining lie : John Paul Vann and American 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 - Common ground : a turbulent decade in the lives of three American families, by J. Anthony Lukas
• 
  and Move your shadow : South Africa Black and White, by Joseph Lelyveld
• 1985 - "The good war", an oral history of World War Twor, 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 - Godel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid, by Douglas R. Hofstadter
• 1979 - On human nature, by Edward O. Wilson
• 1978 - The dragons of eden : speculations on the evolution of human intelligence, by Carl Sagan
• 1977 - Beautiful swimmers : watermen, crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay, by William W. Warner
• 1976 - Why survive? : being old in America, by Robert N. Butler
• 1975 - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard
• 1974 - The denial of death, by Ernest Becker
• 1973 - Fire in the lake : the Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam, by Francis FitzGerald
  and Children of crisis - volumes II and III, by Robert Coles
• 1972 - Stilwell and the American experience in China, 1911-1945, by Barbara W. Tuchman
• 1971 - The rising sun, by John Toland
• 1970 - Gandhi's truth on the origins of militant nonviolence, by Eric H. Erikson
• 1969 - The armies of the night : history as a novel, the novel as history, by Norman Mailer
  and So human an animal : how we are shaped by surroundings and events , by Rene Jules Dubos
• 1968 - Rousseau and revolution (The story of civilization, volume 10), by Will and 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 : American culture: the formative years, 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 H. White