A list of Pulitzer Prize winners for General Nonfiction.
The Pulitzer Prizes, established and endowed by Joseph Pulitzer (1847–1911), honour excellence in American literature, journalism, drama and music. The prizes, administered by Columbia University, bestow on winners both literary prestige and a cash prize.
For years not listed, no award was made.
- 1962
- The Making of the President, 1960, Theodore H. White
- 1963
- The Guns of August, Barbara W. Tuchman
- 1964
- Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter
- 1965
- O Strange New World, Howard Mumford Jones
- 1966
- Wandering Through Winter, Edwin Way Teale
- 1967
- The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, David Brion Davis
- 1968
- Rousseau and Revolution, Will and Ariel Durant
- 1969
- So Human an Animal, Rene Jules Dubos; The Armies of the Night, Norman Mailer
- 1970
- Gandhi's Truth, Erik H. Erikson
- 1971
- The Rising Sun, John Toland
- 1972
- Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–1945, Barbara W. Tuchman
- 1973
- Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam, Frances FitzGerald; Children of Crisis (Vols. 1 and 2), Robert M. Coles
- 1974
- The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker
- 1975
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
- 1976
- Why Survive? Being Old in America, Robert N. Butler
- 1977
- Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay, William W. Warner
- 1978
- The Dragons of Eden, Carl Sagan
- 1979
- On Human Nature, Edward O. Wilson
- 1980
- Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R. Hofstadter
- 1981
- Fin-de–Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture, Carl E. Schorske
- 1982
- The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder
- 1983
- Is There No Place on Earth for Me?, Susan Sheehan
- 1984
- Social Transformation of American Medicine, Paul Starr
- 1985
- The Good War: An Oral History of World War II, Studs Terkel
- 1986
- Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White, Joseph Lelyveld; Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, J. Anthony Lukas
- 1987
- Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, David K. Shipler
- 1988
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes
- 1989
- A Bright Shining Lie, Neil Sheehan
- 1990
- And Their Children After Them, Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson
- 1991
- The Ants, Bert Holldobler and Edward O.
Wilson
- 1992
- The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, Daniel Yergin
- 1993
- Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, Garry Wills
- 1994
- Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, David Remick
- 1995
- The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time, Jonathan Weiner
- 1996
- The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism, Tina Rosenberg
- 1997
- Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris, Richard Kluger
- 1998
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond
- 1999
- Annals of the Former World, John McPhee
- 2000
- Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, John W. Dower
- 2001
- Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, Herbert P. Bix
- 2002
- Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution, Diane McWhorter
- 2003
- A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, Samantha Power
- 2004
- Gulag: A History, Anne Applebaum
- 2005
- Ghost Wars, Steve Coll
- 2006
- Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya, Caroline Elkins
- 2007
- The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, Lawrence Wright
- 2008
- The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945, Saul Friedländer
- 2009
- Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, Douglas A. Blackmon
- 2010
- The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy, David E. Hoffman
- 2011
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee
- 2012
- The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, Stephen Greenblatt
- 2013
- Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, Gilbert King
- 2014
- Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation, Dan Fagin
- 2015
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Elizabeth Kolbert
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