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American award for nonfiction books

The Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are awarded annually for the "Letters, Drama, and Music" category. The award is given to a nonfiction book written by an American author and published during the preceding calendar year that is ineligible for any other Pulitzer Prize. The Prize has been awarded since 1962; beginning in 1980, one to three finalists have been announced alongside the winner.

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills (1993), and The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin (2020). Winners and finalistsYearAuthor(s)BookAward1962Theodore H. WhiteThe Making of the President 1960 1963Barbara W. TuchmanThe Guns of August 1964Richard HofstadterAnti intellectualism in American Life 1965Howard Mumford JonesO Strange New World: American Culture: The Formative Years 1966Edwin Way TealeWandering Through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000 Mile Journey Through the North American Winter 1967David Brion DavisThe Problem of Slavery in Western Culture 1968Will Durant and Ariel DurantThe Story of Civilization: Rousseau and Revolution 1969René Jules DubosSo Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and Events Norman MailerThe Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History 1970Erik H. EriksonGandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence 1971John TolandThe Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945 1972Barbara W. TuchmanStilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45 1973Robert ColesChildren of Crisis, Volumes II and III Frances FitzGeraldFire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam 1974Ernest BeckerThe Denial of Death 1975Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek 1976Robert N. ButlerWhy Survive? Being Old in America 1977William W. WarnerBeautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay 1978Carl SaganThe Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence 1979Edward O. WilsonOn Human Nature 1980Douglas R. HofstadterGödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan GubarThe Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination Lewis ThomasThe Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher 1981Carl E. SchorskeFin de Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture Maxine Hong KingstonChina Men William ManchesterGoodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War Marshall FradySoutherners: A Journalist's Odyssey 1982Tracy KidderThe Soul of a New Machine John McPheeBasin and Range Diana TrillingMrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor 1983Susan SheehanIs There No Place on Earth for Me? Diane JohnsonTerrorists and Novelists Jonathan SchellThe Fate of the Earth 1984Paul StarrThe Social Transformation of American Medicine Winston Groom and Duncan SpencerConversations with the Enemy Susan JacobyWild Justice 1985Studs TerkelThe Good War: An Oral History of World War Two Donald KeeneDawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era Jonathan KwitnyEndless Enemies: The Making of an Unfriendly World 1986J. Anthony LukasCommon Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families Joseph LelyveldMove Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White Robert N. BellahHabits and the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life 1987David K. ShiplerArab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land Cyra McFaddenRain or Shine: A Family Memoir John McPheeRising from the Plains 1988Richard RhodesThe Making of the Atomic Bomb James GleickChaos: Making a New Science Daniel CallahanSetting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society 1989Neil SheehanA Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Timothy Ferris Coming of Age in the Milky Way McGeorge BundyDanger and Survival: Choices about the Bomb in the First Fifty Years Howard KohnThe Last Farmer 1990Dale Maharidge and Michael WilliamsonAnd Their Children After Them David FromkinA Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914 1922 Stephen Jay GouldWonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History 1991Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. WilsonThe Ants John McPheeLooking for a Ship William duBuys and Alex Harris River of Traps: A Village Life 1992Daniel YerginThe Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power Andre DubusBroken Vessels Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. EdsallChain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics 1993Garry WillsLincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America Susan GriffinA Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War Richard RodriguezDays of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father Anne MatthewsWhere the Buffalo Roam: Restoring America's Great Plains 1994David RemnickLenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire Peter GayThe Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud John LukacsThe End of the Twentieth Century: And the End of the Modern Age 1995Jonathan WeinerThe Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time Sherwin B. NulandHow We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter John BerendtMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story 1996Tina RosenbergThe Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism Daniel C. DennettDarwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and The Meanings of Life Lawrence WeschlerMr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology 1997Richard KlugerAshes to Ashes: America's Hundred Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris Cynthia OzickFame and Folly Samuel G. FreedmanThe Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond 1998Jared DiamondGuns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Steven PinkerHow the Mind Works Jon KrakauerInto Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster 1999John McPheeAnnals of the Former World Elliott CurrieCrime and Punishment in America Judith Rich HarrisThe Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do 2000John W. DowerEmbracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II Scott WeidensaulLiving on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds Brian GreeneThe Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory 2001Herbert P. BixHirohito and the Making of Modern Japan Dave EggersA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Ted ConoverNewjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2002Diane McWhorterCarry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution Andrew SolomonThe Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression David HalberstamWar in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals 2003Samantha Power"A Problem From Hell": America and the Age of Genocide Ellen MeloyThe Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature 2004Anne ApplebaumGulag: A History Steven NadlerRembrandt's Jews Dana PriestThe Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military 2005Steve CollGhost Wars Suketu MehtaMaximum City: Bombay Lost and Found Luis Alberto UrreaThe Devil's Highway: A True Story 2006Caroline ElkinsImperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya Tony JudtPostwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 George PackerThe Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq 2007Lawrence WrightThe Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Pete EarleyCrazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness Thomas E. RicksFiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq 2008Saul FriedländerThe Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945 Allan BrandtThe Cigarette Century Alex RossThe Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century 2009Douglas A. BlackmonSlavery by Another Name: The Re Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II Arthur Herman Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age William I. HitchcockThe Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe 2010David E. HoffmanThe Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy John CassidyHow Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities Robert WrightThe Evolution of God 2011Siddhartha MukherjeeThe Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer S. C. GwynneEmpire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History Nicholas G. CarrThe Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains 2012Stephen GreenblattThe Swerve: How the World Became Modern Diane AckermanOne Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing Mara HvistendahlUnnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men 2013Gilbert KingDevil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America Katherine BooBehind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity David George HaskellThe Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature 2014Dan FaginToms River: A Story of Science and Salvation Gary J. BassThe Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide Fred KaplanThe Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War 2015Elizabeth KolbertThe Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Evan OsnosAge of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China Anand GopalNo Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes 2016Joby WarrickBlack Flags: The Rise of ISIS Ta Nehisi CoatesBetween the World and Me Carla PowerIf the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran 2017Matthew DesmondEvicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City John Donvan and Caren ZuckerIn a Different Key: The Story of Autism Micki McElyaThe Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery 2018James Forman Jr. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America Suzy HansenNotes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post America World Richard O. PrumThe Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us 2019Eliza GriswoldAmity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America Bernice YeungIn a Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers Elizabeth RushRising: Dispatches from the New American Shore 2020Greg GrandinThe End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America Anne BoyerThe Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care Louise AronsonElderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life Albert Woodfox with Leslie GeorgeSolitary 2021David ZucchinoWilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy Cathy Park HongMinor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning Sierra Crane MurdochYellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country 2022Andrea ElliottInvisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City Carla PowerHome, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism Joshua PragerThe Family Roe: An American Story 2023Robert Samuels and Toluse OlorunnipaHis Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice Jing TsuKingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern David George HaskellSounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction Linda VillarosaUnder the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation 2024Nathan ThrallA Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy John VaillantFire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World Siddharth KaraCobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives