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The Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It has been presented since 1962 for a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author, published during the preceding calendar year, that is not eligible for consideration in another category.

Finalists have been announced from 1980, ordinarily two others beside the winner.[1]

Winners

In its first 52 years to 2013, the Nonfiction Pulitzer was awarded 55 times; two prizes were given in 1969, 1973, and 1986. Two people won the prize as co-authors in 1968, 1990, and 1991.[1] Barbara Tuchman and E.O. Wilson have won two Nonfiction prizes each. Two winning works were also finalists in the Pulitzer Prize for History: A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1989) and Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America (1993).

1960s

1970s

1980s

The finalists are indented, ordinarily two each year.

1990s

2000s

2010s

  • 2010: The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman
  • 2011: Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
    • The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas G. Carr
    • Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne
  • 2012: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
    • One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing by Diane Ackerman
    • Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men by Mara Hvistendahl
  • 2013: Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
    • Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
    • The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature by David George Haskell
  • 2014: Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin
    • The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass
    • The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War by Fred Kaplan
  • 2015: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert[3]
    • No Good Men Among the Living by Anand Gopal
    • Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
  • 2016: Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick[4]
    • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
    • If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran by Carla Power
  • 2017: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond[5]
    • In a Different Key: The Story of Autism by John Donvan and Caren Zucker
    • The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery by Micki McElya
  • 2018: Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.[6]
    • The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—and Us by Richard O. Prum
    • Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World by Suzy Hansen
  • 2019: Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold[7]
    • In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers by Bernice Yeung
    • Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush

2020s

  • 2020: The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin / The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care by Anne Boyer [8]
    • Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimaging Life by Louise Aronson
    • Solitary by Albert Woodfox with Leslie George

Repeat winners

Two people have won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction twice.

  • Barbara Tuchman, 1963 for The Guns of August and 1972 for Stilwell and the American Experience in China
  • E. O. Wilson, 1979 for On Human Nature and 1991 for Ants, the latter with co-author Bert Hölldobler

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "General Nonfiction". The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org). Retrieved 2008-02-27.
  2. ^ "1986 Pulitzer Prize Winners". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2020-09-06.
  3. ^ "General Nonfiction". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
  4. ^ "General Nonfiction". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  5. ^ "General Nonfiction". Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  6. ^ "2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners". www.pulitzer.org.
  7. ^ "2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners". www.pulitzer.org.
  8. ^ "2020 Pulitzer Prize Winners". www.pulitzer.org.

External links

  • Media related to Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction winners at Wikimedia Commons
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