Homepage awardsarchive_e47t1f Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction 2019 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America Eliza Griswold Amazon 2018 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America James Forman Jr. Amazon 2017 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Matthew Desmond Amazon 2016 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS Joby Warrick Amazon 2015 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Elizabeth Kolbert Amazon 2014 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation Dan Fagin Amazon 2013 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America Gilbert King Amazon 2012 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Stephen Greenblatt Amazon 2011 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee Amazon 2010 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy David E. Hoffman Amazon 2009 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II Douglas A. Blackmon Amazon 2008 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945 Saul Friedlander Amazon 2007 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Lawrence Wright Amazon 2006 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya Caroline Elkins Amazon 2005 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 Steve Coll Amazon 2004 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Gulag: A History Anne Applebaum Amazon 2003 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide Samantha Power Amazon 2002 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution Diane McWhorter Amazon 2001 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan Herbert P. Bix Amazon 2000 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II John W. Dower Amazon 1999 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Annals of the Former World John McPhee Amazon 1998 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Jared Diamond Amazon 1997 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Ashes to Ashes: America’s Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris Richard Kluger Amazon 1996 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction The Haunted Land: Facing Europe’s Ghosts After Communism Tina Rosenberg Amazon 1995 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time Jonathan Weiner Amazon 1994 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire David Remnick Amazon 1993 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America Garry Wills Amazon 1992 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power Daniel Yergin Amazon 1991 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction The Ants Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson Amazon 1990 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction And Their Children After Them Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson Amazon 1989 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Neil Sheehan Amazon 1988 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction The Making of the Atomic Bomb Richard Rhode Amazon 1987 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land David K. Shipler Amazon 1986 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families J. Anthony Lukas Amazon 1985 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two Studs Terkel Amazon 1984 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction The Social Transformation of American Medicine Paul Starr Amazon 1983 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Is There No Place on Earth for Me? Susan Sheehan Amazon 1982 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction The Soul of a New Machine Tracy Kidder Amazon 1981 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture Carl E. Schorske Amazon 1980 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid Douglas Hofstadter Amazon 1979 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction On Human Nature Edward O. Wilson Amazon 1978 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction The Dragons of Eden Carl Sagan Amazon 1977 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Beautiful Swimmers William W. Warner Amazon 1976 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Why Survive? Being Old In America Robert Neil Butler Amazon 1975 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard Amazon 1974 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction The Denial of Death Ernest Becker Amazon 1973 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Children of Crisis, vols. 2 and 3, Robert Coles Amazon 1972 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45 Barbara W. Tuchman Amazon 1971 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction The Rising Sun John Toland Amazon 1970 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Gandhi’s Truth Erik H. Erikson Amazon 1969 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction So Human an Animal René Jules Dubos Amazon 1968 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Rousseau and Revolution, vol. 10 of The Story of Civilization, Will and Ariel Durant Amazon 1967 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture David Brion Davis Amazon 1966 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Wandering Through Winter Edwin Way Teale Amazon 1965 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction O Strange New World Howard Mumford Jones Amazon 1964 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Anti-intellectualism in American Life Richard Hofstadter Amazon 1963 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction The Guns of August Barbara W. Tuchman Amazon 1962 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction The Making of the President 1960 Theodore White Amazon