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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.[1]

## Recipients

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During the year 1969, 1973, 1986, and 2020, two winners were awarded the prize[1] An additional one to three finalists have been announced alongside the winner beginning in 1980. Two authors have won multiple prizes: Barbara W. Tuchman in 1963 and 1972, and Edward O. Wilson in 1979 and 1991. Additionally, two authors have been finalists multiple times: Steven Pinker (1998, 2003) and John McPhee (1982, 1987, 1991); McPhee won the Prize in 1999. Three winning works were also finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for History: A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan (1989),[2] Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills (1993),[3] and The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin (2020).[4]

Barbara W. Tuchman won the Prize in 1963 for her book on World War I, and again in 1972 for her work on early 20th-century China. Edward O. Wilson has won the Prize twice for his books on biology: once in 1979, and again in 1991 in collaboration with Bert Hölldobler. John McPhee was a Prize finalist three times in 1982, 1987, and 1991, before winning in 1999. Year  | Author(s)  | Book  | Publisher  | Rationale

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1962 | Theodore H. White | The Making of the President 1960 | Atheneum |
1963 | Barbara W. Tuchman | The Guns of August | Macmillan |
1964 | Richard Hofstadter | Anti-Intellectualism in American Life | Random House |
1965 | Howard Mumford Jones | O Strange New World: American Culture: The Formative Years | Viking |
1966 | Edwin Way Teale | Wandering through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey through the North American Winter | Dodd |
1967 | David Brion Davis | The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture | Cornell University Press |
1968 | Ariel Durant | The Story of Civilization: Rousseau and Revolution | Simon and Schuster |
Will Durant
1969 | René Dubos | So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and Events | Scribner |
Norman Mailer | The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History | World |
1970 | Erik Erikson | Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence | W. W. Norton |
1971 | John Toland | The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945 | Random House |
1972 | Barbara W. Tuchman | Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–1945 | Macmillan |
1973 | Robert Coles | Children of Crisis, Volumes II and III | Little |
Frances FitzGerald | Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam | Little |
1974 | Ernest Becker | The Denial of Death | Free Press |
Macmillan
1975 | Annie Dillard | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | Harper's Magazine Press |
1976 | Robert N. Butler | Why Survive?: Being Old in America | Harper |
1977 | William W. Warner | Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay | Little |
1978 | Carl Sagan | The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence | Random House |
1979 | Edward O. Wilson | On Human Nature | Harvard University Press |
1980 | Douglas Hofstadter | Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid | Basic Books |
Sandra Gilbert | The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination | Yale University Press |
Susan Gubar
Lewis Thomas | The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher | Viking |
1981 | Carl E. Schorske | Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture | Knopf |
Marshall Frady | Southerners: A Journalist's Odyssey | New American Library |
Maxine Hong Kingston | China Men | Knopf |
William Manchester | Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War | Little |
1982 | Tracy Kidder | The Soul of a New Machine | Atlantic |
Little
John McPhee | Basin and Range | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Diana Trilling | Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor | Harcourt |
1983 | Susan Sheehan | Is There No Place on Earth for Me? | Houghton Mifflin |
Diane Johnson | Terrorists and Novelists | Knopf |
Jonathan Schell | The Fate of the Earth | Knopf |
1984 | Paul Starr | The Social Transformation of American Medicine | Basic Books |
Winston Groom | Conversations with the Enemy | Putnam |
Duncan Spencer
Susan Jacoby | Wild Justice | Harper |
1985 | Studs Terkel | "The Good War": An Oral History of World War II | Pantheon |
Donald Keene | Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era | Holt |
Jonathan Kwitny | Endless Enemies: The Making of an Unfriendly World | Congdon and Weed |
1986 | Joseph Lelyveld | Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White | Times Books |
J. Anthony Lukas | Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families | Knopf |
Robert N. Bellah | Habits and the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life | University of California Press |
1987 | David K. Shipler | Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land | Times Books |
Cyra McFadden | Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir | Knopf |
John McPhee | Rising from the Plains | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
1988 | Richard Rhodes | The Making of the Atomic Bomb | Simon and Schuster |
Daniel Callahan | Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society | Simon and Schuster |
James Gleick | Chaos: Making a New Science | Viking |
1989 | Neil Sheehan | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam | Random House |
McGeorge Bundy | Danger and Survival: Choices about the Bomb in the First Fifty Years | Random House |
Timothy Ferris | Coming of Age in the Milky Way | William Morrow |
Howard Kohn | The Last Farmer | Summit Books |
1990 | Dale Maharidge | And Their Children after Them | Pantheon |
Michael Williamson
David Fromkin | A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914–1922 | Holt |
Stephen Jay Gould | Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History | W. W. Norton |
1991 | Bert Hölldobler | The Ants | Harvard University Press (Belknap) |
Edward O. Wilson
William deBuys | River of Traps: A Village Life | University of New Mexico Press |
Alex Harris
John McPhee | Looking for a Ship | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
1992 | Daniel Yergin | The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power | Simon and Schuster |
Andre Dubus | Broken Vessels | Godine |
Mary Edsall | Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics | W. W. Norton |
Thomas B. Edsall
1993 | Garry Wills | Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America | Simon and Schuster |
Susan Griffin | A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War | Doubleday |
Anne Matthews | Where the Buffalo Roam: Restoring America's Great Plains | Grove |
Richard Rodriguez | Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father | Viking |
1994 | David Remnick | Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire | Random House |
Peter Gay | The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud | W. W. Norton |
John Lukacs | The End of the Twentieth Century: And the End of the Modern Age | Ticknor and Fields |
1995 | Jonathan Weiner | The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time | Knopf |
John Berendt | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story | Random House |
Sherwin B. Nuland | How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter | Knopf |
1996 | Tina Rosenberg | The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts after Communism | Random House |
Daniel Dennett | Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life | Simon and Schuster |
Lawrence Weschler | Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology | Pantheon |
1997 | Richard Kluger | Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris | Knopf |
Samuel G. Freedman | The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond | Simon and Schuster |
Cynthia Ozick | Fame and Folly | Knopf |
1998 | Jared Diamond | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies | W. W. Norton |
Jon Krakauer | Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster | Villard |
Steven Pinker | How the Mind Works | W. W. Norton |
1999 | John McPhee | Annals of the Former World | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Elliott Currie | Crime and Punishment in America | Metropolitan Books |
Judith Rich Harris | The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do | Free Press |
2000 | John W. Dower | Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II | New Press |
W. W. Norton
Brian Greene | The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory | W. W. Norton |
Scott Weidensaul | Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
North Point Press
2001 | Herbert P. Bix | Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan | HarperCollins |
Ted Conover | Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing | Random House |
Dave Eggers | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius | Simon and Schuster |
2002 | Diane McWhorter | Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution | Simon and Schuster |
David Halberstam | War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals | Scribner |
Andrew Solomon | The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression | Scribner |
2003 | Samantha Power | "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide | Basic Books |
Ellen Meloy | The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit | Pantheon |
Steven Pinker | The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature | Viking |
2004 | Anne Applebaum | Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps | Doubleday |
Steven Nadler | Rembrandt's Jews | University of Chicago Press |
Dana Priest | The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military | W. W. Norton |
2005 | Steve Coll | Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 | Penguin |
Suketu Mehta | Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found | Knopf |
Luis Alberto Urrea | The Devil's Highway: A True Story | Little |
2006 | Caroline Elkins | Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya | Holt |
Tony Judt | Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945 | Penguin |
George Packer | The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
2007 | Lawrence Wright | The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 | Knopf |
Pete Earley | Crazy: A Father's Search through America's Mental Health Madness | Putnam |
Thomas E. Ricks | Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq | Penguin |
2008 | Saul Friedländer | The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945 | HarperCollins |
Allan Brandt | The Cigarette Century | Basic Books |
Alex Ross | The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
2009 | Douglas A. Blackmon | Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II | Doubleday | "A precise and eloquent work that examines a deliberate system of racial suppression and that rescues a multitude of atrocities from virtual obscurity."
Arthur Herman | Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age | Bantam Books | "An authoritative, deeply researched book that achieves an extraordinary balance in weighing two mighty protagonists against each other."
William I. Hitchcock | The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe | Free Press | "A heavily documented exploration of the overlooked suffering of noncombatants in the victory over Nazi Germany, written with the dash of a novelist and the authority of a scholar."
2010 | David E. Hoffman | The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy | Doubleday | "A well documented narrative that examines the terrifying doomsday competition between two superpowers and how weapons of mass destruction still imperil humankind."
John Cassidy | How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | "A work that probes the complexity of the Great Recession, using solid research and precise documentation to reveal not only a gripping human drama but also a tense clash of ideas."
Robert Wright | The Evolution of God | Little | "A sweeping look at the origins and development of religious belief throughout human history."
2011 | Siddhartha Mukherjee | The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer | Scribner | "An elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal, into the long history of an insidious disease that, despite treatment breakthroughs, still bedevils medical science."
Nicholas G. Carr | The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains | W. W. Norton | "A thought provoking exploration of the Internet's physical and cultural consequences, rendering highly technical material intelligible to the general reader."
S. C. Gwynne | Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History | Scribner | "A memorable examination of the longest and most brutal of all the wars between European settlers and a single Indian tribe."
2012 | Stephen Greenblatt | The Swerve: How the World Became Modern | W. W. Norton | "A provocative book arguing that an obscure work of philosophy, discovered nearly 600 years ago, changed the course of history by anticipating the science and sensibilities of today."[5]
Diane Ackerman | One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing | W. W. Norton | "A resilient author's account of caring for a stricken husband, sharing fears and insights as she explores neurology and ponders the gift of words."
Mara Hvistendahl | Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men | PublicAffairs | "An evocative, deeply researched book probing the causes and effects of a global imbalance in the gender ratio."
2013 | Gilbert King | Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America | Harper | "A richly detailed chronicle of racial injustice in the Florida town of Groveland in 1949, involving four black men falsely accused of rape and drawing a civil rights crusader, and eventual Supreme Court justice, into the legal battle."
Katherine Boo | Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity | Random House | "An engrossing book that plunges the reader into an Indian slum in the shadow of gleaming hotels near Mumbai's airport, revealing a complex subculture where poverty does not extinguish aspiration."
David G. Haskell | The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature | Viking | "A fascinating book that, for a year, closely follows the natural wonders occurring within a tiny patch of old-growth Tennessee forest."
2014 | Dan Fagin | Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation | Bantam Books | "A book that deftly combines investigative reporting and historical research to probe a New Jersey seashore town's cluster of childhood cancers linked to water and air pollution."
Gary J. Bass | The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide | Knopf | "A disquieting exploration of the role played by the American president and his national security advisor in the 1971 Pakistani civil war, a bloodbath that killed hundreds of thousands and created millions of refugees."
Fred Kaplan | The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War | Simon and Schuster | "An engrossing look at how a tenacious general became the ringleader of efforts to reshape America's military strategy in the post-Cold War age."
2015 | Elizabeth Kolbert | The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History | Holt | "An exploration of nature that forces readers to consider the threat posed by human behavior to a world of astonishing diversity."
Anand Gopal | No Good Men among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes | Metropolitan Books | "A remarkable work of nonfiction storytelling that exposes the cascade of blunders that doomed America's misbegotten intervention in Afghanistan."
Evan Osnos | Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | "The story of a vast country and society in the grip of transformation, calmly surveyed, smartly reported and portrayed with exacting strokes."
2016 | Joby Warrick | Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS | Doubleday | "A deeply reported book of remarkable clarity showing how the flawed rationale for the Iraq War led to the explosive growth of the Islamic State."
Ta-Nehisi Coates | Between the World and Me | Spiegel and Grau | "A powerful book that passionately and bleakly propounds the hazards faced by black men coming of age in America."
Carla Power | If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran | Holt | "A perceptive account of a year spent reading the Quran, displaying grace, subtlety and humane intellect as antidotes to rampant Islamophobia."
2017 | Matthew Desmond | Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City | Crown | "For a deeply researched exposé that showed how mass evictions after the 2008 economic crash were less a consequence than a cause of poverty."
John Donvan | In a Different Key: The Story of Autism | Crown | "For a passionate work of advocacy that traces public perceptions about autism from chillingly cruel beginnings to a kinder but still troubling present."
Caren Zucker
Micki McElya | The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery | Harvard University Press | "For a luminous investigation of how policies and practices at Arlington National Cemetery have mirrored the nation's fierce battles over race, politics, honor and loyalty."
2018 | James Forman Jr. | Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | "An examination of the historical roots of contemporary criminal justice in the U.S., based on vast experience and deep knowledge of the legal system, and its often-devastating consequences for citizens and communities of color."
Suzy Hansen | Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-America World | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | "A brave and disturbing account of what it means to be an American in the world during the first decades of the 21st century."
Richard Prum | The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—and Us | Doubleday | "A fascinating, nuanced and compelling account of the potentially unsettling implications surrounding sexual selection."
2019 | Eliza Griswold | Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | "A classic American story, grippingly told, of an Appalachian family struggling to retain its middle class status in the shadow of destruction wreaked by corporate fracking."
Elizabeth Rush | Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore | Milkweed Editions | "A rigorously reported story about American vulnerability to rising seas, particularly disenfranchised people with limited access to the tools of rebuilding."
Bernice Yeung | In a Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence against America's Most Vulnerable Workers | New Press | "An unembellished series of case studies about sexual violence exacted on mostly immigrant women in America, many toiling in a shadow economy."
2020 | Anne Boyer | The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | "An elegant and unforgettable narrative about the brutality of illness and the capitalism of cancer care in America."
Greg Grandin | The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America | Metropolitan Books | "A sweeping and beautifully written book that probes the American myth of boundless expansion and provides a compelling context for thinking about the current political moment."[a]
Louise Aronson | Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life | Bloomsbury | "An empathetic and nuanced critique, informed by the author's decades of experience as a geriatrician, of the ways in which our society and healthcare system neglect, stereotype and mistreat the elderly."
Leslie George | Solitary | Grove Atlantic | "An unflinching indictment of Louisiana's most notorious prison and the racist criminal justice system as told through an innocent man's redemptive journey faced with a life sentence in solitary confinement."
Albert Woodfox
2021 | David Zucchino | Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy | Atlantic Monthly Press | "A gripping account of the overthrow of the elected government of a Black-majority North Carolina city after Reconstruction that untangles a complicated set of power dynamics cutting across race, class and gender."
Sierra Crane Murdoch | Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country | Random House | "A richly-layered story with an imperfect yet memorable protagonist battling corruption, greed and intergenerational trauma when a fracking oil boom collides with reservation life in North Dakota."
Cathy Park Hong | Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning | One World  | "A captivating and insightful essay collection that provides an emotional consideration of racial consciousness, compelling readers to interrogate their own ideas about our common humanity."
Random House
2022 | Andrea Elliott | Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City | Random House | "An affecting, deeply reported account of a girl who comes of age during New York City's homeless crisis—a portrait of resilience amid institutional failure that successfully merges literary narrative with policy analysis."
Carla Power | Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism | One World  | "An eye-opening global investigation into the deradicalization of violent extremists that impeccably balances empathy and skepticism."
Random House
Joshua Prager | The Family Roe: An American Story | W. W. Norton | "A deeply reported account of Norma McCorvey, the Roe of Roe v. Wade, and her family, which casts fresh light on the American judicial system's half century of struggle to reckon with abortion."
2023 | Toluse Olorunnipa | His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice | Viking | "An intimate, riveting portrait of an ordinary man whose fatal encounter with police officers in 2020 sparked an international movement for social change, but whose humanity and complicated personal story were unknown."[b]
Robert Samuels
David G. Haskell | Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction | Viking | "An insightful and revelatory work that scientifically reconsiders natural sound as a wonder of evolution, voicing concern that noisy human progress may return us to silence."
Jing Tsu | Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern | Riverhead Books | "A beguiling and original geopolitical account of how China's international prominence was made possible by the preservation and modernization of the Chinese language and the integration of Mandarin into global communication."
Linda Villarosa | Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation | Doubleday | "A morally urgent and elegantly rendered work drawing on history, medical research and years of reporting to document how racism infects the American healthcare system, a call to action that also offers some solutions."
2024 | Nathan Thrall | A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy | Metropolitan Books | "A finely reported and intimate account of life under Israeli occupation of the West Bank, told through a portrait of a Palestinian father whose five-year-old son dies in a fiery school bus crash when Israeli and Palestinian rescue teams are delayed by security regulations."
Siddharth Kara | Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives | St. Martin's Press | "A powerful examination of mining operations in the Southeastern Congo that reveals a global system of modern-day slavery, and the inhumane, often deadly working conditions for the men, women and children who extract the rare metal required for smartphones, computers and electric vehicles."
John Vaillant | Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World | Knopf | "An unsparing account of the rapacious Alberta Sands fire, fueled by an overheated atmosphere, dry forest and omnipresent petroleum products, that consumed the town of Fort McMurray at the heart of Canada's oil industry, which brings the global crisis of carbon emissions and climate change into urgent relief."
2025 | Benjamin Nathans | To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement | Princeton University Press | "A prodigiously researched and revealing history of Soviet dissent, how it was repeatedly put down and came to life again, populated by a sprawling cast of courageous people dedicated to fighting for threatened freedoms and hard-earned rights."
Rachel Nolan | Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala | Harvard University Press | "A focused, extensively reported study of how, between 1977 and 2007, Guatemala became the second largest source of foreign adoptions in the world, a breeding ground for racism, greed and exploitation."
Rollo Romig | I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist’s Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India | Penguin | "A captivating account of a crusading South Indian's murder, a mystery rich in local culture and politics that also connects to such global themes as authoritarianism, fundamentalism and other threats to free expression."

## Notes

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1. ^ Moved by the Pulitzer board from the History category.
2. ^ Moved by the Pulitzer board from the Biography category.

## References

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1. ^ a b "General Nonfiction". The Pulitzer Prizes. Archived from the original on March 18, 2021. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
2. ^ "A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, by Neil Sheehan (Random House)". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved March 26, 2021.
3. ^ "Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, by Garry Wills (Simon & Schuster)". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved March 26, 2021.
4. ^ "The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, by Greg Grandin (Metropolitan Books)". The Pulitzer Prizes. Archived from the original on May 4, 2020. Retrieved April 17, 2021.
5. ^ "Stephen Greenblatt wins Pulitzer Prize". April 16, 2012.

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* Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
* Pulitzer Prize for History

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* The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore White (1962)
* The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman (1963)
* Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter (1964)
* O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones (1965)
* Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale (1966)
* The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis (1967)
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* So Human an Animal by René Dubos / The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer (1969)
* Gandhi's Truth by Erik Erikson (1970)
* The Rising Sun by John Toland (1971)
* Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45 by Barbara W. Tuchman (1972)
* Fire in the Lake by Frances FitzGerald / Children of Crisis vols. 2 and 3 by Robert Coles (1973)
* The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker (1974)
* Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (1975)

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* Why Survive? by Robert N. Butler (1976)
* Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner (1977)
* The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan (1978)
* On Human Nature by E. O. Wilson (1979)
* Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter (1980)
* Fin-de-siècle Vienna by Carl Emil Schorske (1981)
* The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (1982)
* Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan (1983)
* The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr (1984)
* The Good War by Studs Terkel (1985)
* Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas / Move Your Shadow by Joseph Lelyveld (1986)
* Arab and Jew by David K. Shipler (1987)
* The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (1988)
* A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan (1989)
* And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson (1990)
* The Ants by Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson (1991)
* The Prize by Daniel Yergin (1992)
* Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills (1993)
* Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick (1994)
* The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner (1995)
* The Haunted Land by Tina Rosenberg (1996)
* Ashes to Ashes by Richard Kluger (1997)
* Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (1998)
* Annals of the Former World by John McPhee (1999)
* Embracing Defeat by John W. Dower (2000)

2001–2025|

* Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix (2001)
* Carry Me Home by Diane McWhorter (2002)
* "A Problem from Hell" by Samantha Power (2003)
* Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum (2004)
* Ghost Wars by Steve Coll (2005)
* Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins (2006)
* The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright (2007)
* The Years of Extermination by Saul Friedländer (2008)
* Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon (2009)
* The Dead Hand by David E. Hoffman (2010)
* The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011)
* The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt (2012)
* Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King (2013)
* Toms River by Dan Fagin (2014)
* The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert (2015)
* Black Flags by Joby Warrick (2016)
* Evicted by Matthew Desmond (2017)
* Locking Up Our Own by James Forman Jr. (2018)
* Amity and Prosperity by Eliza Griswold (2019)
* The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin / The Undying by Anne Boyer (2020)
* Wilmington's Lie by David Zucchino (2021)
* Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott (2022)
* His Name Is George Floyd by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (2023)
* A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall (2024)
* To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans (2025)

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