PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION

The 'Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction' has been awarded since 1962 for a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category.

★ '2007:' ''The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11'' by Lawrence Wright

★ '2006:' ''Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya'' by Caroline Elkins

★ '2005:' ''Ghost Wars'' by Steve Coll

★ '2004:' ''Gulag: A History'' by Anne Applebaum

★ '2003:' '' by Samantha Power

★ '2002:' ''Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution'' by Diane McWhorter

★ '2001:' ''Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan'' by Herbert P. Bix

★ '2000:' ''Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II'' by John W. Dower

★ '1999:' ''Annals of the Former World'' by John McPhee

★ '1998:' ''Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies'' by Jared Diamond

★ '1997:' ''Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris'' by Richard Kluger

★ '1996:' ''The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism'' by Tina Rosenberg

★ '1995:' ''The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time'' by Jonathan Weiner

★ '1994:' '' by David Remnick

★ '1993:' ''Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America'' by Garry Wills

★ '1992:' '' by Daniel Yergin

★ '1991:' ''The Ants'' by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson

★ '1990:' ''And Their Children After Them'' by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson

★ '1989:' ''A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam'' by Neil Sheehan

★ '1988:' ''The Making of the Atomic Bomb'' by Richard Rhodes

★ '1987:' ''Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land'' by David K. Shipler

★ '1986:' ''Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White'' by Joseph Lelyveld

★ '1986:' ''Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families'' by J. Anthony Lukas

★ '1985:' ''The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two'' by Studs Terkel

★ '1984:' ''The Social Transformation Of American Medicine'' by Paul Starr

★ '1983:' ''Is There No Place On Earth For Me?'' by Susan Sheehan

★ '1982:' ''The Soul of a New Machine'' by Tracy Kidder

★ '1981:' ''Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture'' by Carl E. Schorske

★ '1980:' ''Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid'' by Douglas R. Hofstadter

★ '1979:' ''On Human Nature'' by Edward O. Wilson

★ '1978:' ''The Dragons of Eden'' by Carl Sagan

★ '1977:' ''Beautiful Swimmers'' by William W. Warner

★ '1976:' ''Why Survive? Being Old In America'' by Robert Neil Butler

★ '1975:' ''Pilgrim at Tinker Creek'' by Annie Dillard

★ '1974:' ''The Denial of Death'' by Ernest Becker

★ '1973:' ''Children of Crisis, Vols. II and III'' by Robert Coles

★ '1973:' ''Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam'' by Frances Fitzgerald

★ '1972:' ''Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945'' by Barbara W. Tuchman

★ '1971:' ''The Rising Sun'' by John Toland

★ '1970:' ''Gandhi's Truth'' by Erik H. Erikson

★ '1969:' ''The Armies Of The Night'' by Norman Mailer

★ '1969:' ''So Human An Animal'' by Rene Jules Dubos

★ '1968:' ''Rousseau And Revolution, The Tenth And Concluding Volume Of The Story of Civilization'' by Will and Ariel Durant.

★ '1967:' ''The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture'' by David Brion Davis

★ '1966:' ''Wandering Through Winter'' by Edwin Way Teale

★ '1965:' ''O Strange New World'' by Howard Mumford Jones

★ '1964:' ''Anti-intellectualism in American Life'' by Richard Hofstadter

★ '1963:' ''The Guns of August'' by Barbara W. Tuchman

★ '1962:' ''The Making of the President 1960'' by Theodore White

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See also

★ Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

★ Pulitzer Prize for History