1999 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

Annals of the Former World

John McPhee

As clearly and succinctly written as it is profoundly informed, this is our finest popular survey of geology and a masterpiece of modern nonfiction. Annals of the Former World is the winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction….

Crime and Punishment in America

Elliott Currie

The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do

Judith Rich Harris