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Pulitzer Prize Winners for General
Non-Fiction
2005 - Ghost Wars by Steve Coll (The Penguin Press)
(Nominated Finalists)
The
Devil’s Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea (Little,
Brown & Company)
Maximum City: Bombay Lost & Found by Suketu Mehta (Alfred A.
Knopf)
2004 - Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum (Doubleday)
(Nominated Finalists)
Rembrandt's Jews by Steven Nadler (The University of Chicago
Press)
The
Mission: Waging War & Keeping Peace with America's Military by
Dana Priest (W.W. Norton)
2003 - "A Problem From Hell:" America & the Age of Genocide
by Samantha Power (Basic Books)
(Nominated Finalists)
The
Blank Slate: the Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
(Viking)
The
Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, &
Spirit by Ellen Meloy (Pantheon Books
2002 - Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic
Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter (Simon
& Schuster)
(Nominated Finalists)
War
in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, & the Generals by David Halberstam (Scribner)
The
Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon
(Scribner)
2001 - Hirohito & the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P.
Bix (HarperCollins)
(Nominated Finalists)
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover (Random House)
A
Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (Simon &
Schuster)
2000 - Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
by John W. Dower (W.W. Norton & Company/The New Press)
(Nominated Finalists)
The
Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions & the Quest
for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene (W.W. Norton)
Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds
by Scott Weidensaul (North Point Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
1999 - Annals of the Former World by John McPhee (Farrar,
Straus & Giroux)
(Nominated Finalists)
Crime & Punishment in America by Elliott Currie (Metropolitan
Books)
The
Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by
Judith Rich Harris (Free Press)
1998 - Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by
Jared Diamond (W.W. Norton)
(Nominated Finalists)
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer (Villard)
How
the Mind Works by Steven Pinker (W.W. Norton)
1997 - Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War,
The Public Health, & The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris by
Richard Kluger (Alfred A. Knopf)
(Nominated Finalists)
The
Inheritance: How Three Families & America Moved from Roosevelt
to Reagan & Beyond by Samuel G. Freedman (Simon & Schuster)
Fame & Folly by Cynthia Ozick (Alfred A. Knopf)
1996 - The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After
Communism by Tina Rosenberg (Random House)
(Nominated Finalists)
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution & The Meanings of Life by
Daniel C. Dennett (Simon & Schuster)
Mr.
Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler (Pantheon)
1995 - The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our
Time by Jonathan Weiner (Alfred A. Knopf)
(Nominated Finalists)
Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil: A Savannah Story by John
Berendt (Random House)
How
We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
(Alfred A. Knopf)
1994 - Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days Of The Soviet Empire by
David Remnick (Random House)
(Nominated Finalists)
The
End of the Twentieth Century: And the End of the Modern Age by
John Lukacs (Ticknor & Fields)
The
Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to
Freud by Peter Gay (W.W. Norton)
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1993 - Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
by Garry Wills (Simon & Schuster)
(Nominated Finalists)
A
Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War by Susan Griffin
(Doubleday)
Where the Buffalo Roam by Anne Matthews (Grove Weidenfeld)
Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father by
Richard Rodriguez (Viking)
1992 - The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & Power by
Daniel Yergin (Simon & Schuster)
(Nominated Finalists)
Broken Vessels by Andre Dubus (David R. Godine)
Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, & Taxes on American
Politics by Thomas Byrne Edsall & Mary D. Edsall (W.W. Norton &
Company)
1991 - The Ants by Bert Holldobler & Edward O. Wilson
(Belknap/Harvard University Press)
(Nominated Finalists)
River of Traps: A Village Life by William duBuys & Alex Harris
(University of New Mexico)
Looking for a Ship by John McPhee (Farrar Straus Giroux)
1990 - And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge &
Michael Williamson (Pantheon)
(Nominated Finalists)
A
Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East
1914-1922 by David Fromkin (Henry Holt & Company)
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale & the Nature of History by
Stephen Jay Gould (W.W. Norton & Company)
1989 - A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann & America in
Vietnam by Neil Sheehan (Random House)
(Nominated Finalists)
Danger & Survival by McGeorge Bundy (Random House)
Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris (William Morrow
& Company)
The
Last Farmer by Howard Kohn (Summit Books)
1988 - The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
(Simon & Schuster)
(Nominated Finalists)
Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society by Daniel
Callahan (Simon & Schuster)
Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (Viking)
1987 - Arab & Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by
David K. Shipler (Times Books)
(Nominated Finalists)
Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir by Cyra McFadden (Alfred A.
Knopf)
Rising from the Plains by John McPhee (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
1986. - Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of
Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas (Alfred A. Knopf)
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black & White by Joseph Lelyveld
(Times Books)
(Nominated Finalists)
Habits & the Heart: Individualism & Commitment in American Life
by Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann
Swidler & Steven M. Tipton (University of California Press)
1985 - The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two by
Studs Terkel (Pantheon)
(Nominated Finalists)
Dawn to the West by Donald Keene (Holt, Rinehart)
Endless Enemies by Jonathan Kwitny (Congdon & Weed)
1984 - The Social Transformation Of American Medicine by
Paul Starr (Basic Books)
(Nominated Finalists)
Conversations With the Enemy by Winston Groom & Duncan Spencer
(Putnam)
Wild Justice by Susan Jacoby (Harper & Row)
1983 - Is There No Place On Earth For Me? by Susan Sheehan
(Houghton Mifflin)
(Nominated Finalists)
Terrorists & Novelists by Diane Johnson (Knopf)
The
Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell (Knopf)
1982 - The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder
(Atlantic-Little, Brown)
(Nominated Finalists)
Basin & Range by John McPhee (Farrar, Straus)
Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor by Diana
Trilling (Harcourt Brace)
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1981 - Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics & Culture by Carl E.
Schorske (Knopf)
(Nominated Finalists)
Southerners: A Journalist's Odyssey by Marshall Frady (New
American Library)
China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston (Knopf)
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War by William
Manchester (Little, Brown)
1980. - Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by
Douglas R. Hofstadter (Basic Books)
(Nominated Finalists)
The
Madwoman in the Attic by Sandra M. Gilbert & Susan Gubar (Yale)
The
Medusa & the Snail by Lewis Thomas (Viking)
1979 - On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson (Harvard Univ.
Press)
1978 - The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan (Random House
1977 - Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner (Atlantic
Little Brown)
1976 - Why Survive? Being Old In America by Robert N. Butler
(Harper)
1975 - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (Harper's
Magazine Press)
1974 - The Denial of Death by the late Ernest Becker (Free
Press/Macmillan)
1973 - Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese & the Americans in
Vietnam by Frances Fitzgerald (Little)
Children of Crisis, Vols. II & III by Robert Coles (Little)
1972 - Stilwell & the American Experience in China,
1911-1945 by Barbara W. Tuchman (Macmillan)
1971 - The Rising Sun by John Toland (Random)
1970 - Gandhi's Truth by Erik H. Erikson (Norton)
1969 - The Armies Of The Night by Norman Mailer (World)
So
Human An Animal by Rene Jules Dubos (Scribner)
1968 - Rousseau And Revolution, The Tenth And Concluding
Volume Of The Story Of Civilization by Will And Ariel Durant
(Simon & Schuster)
1967 - The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David
Brion Davis (Cornell Univ. Press)
1966 - Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale (Dodd)
1965 - O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones (Viking)
1964 - Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard
Hofstadter (Random)
1963 - The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman (Macmillan)
1962 - The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White
(Atheneum)
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