Pulitzer Prize: Letters: General Non-Fiction
The Pulitzer Prizes are annual awards for achievements in American
journalism, letters, drama and music. The prizes have been awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board at Columbia University
since 1917. This award of General Non-Fiction was created in 1962
- 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 Lenin’s Tomb, by D. Remnic
- 1993 Lincoln at Gettysburg, by Gary Wills
- 1992 The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power,
by Daniel Yergin
- 1991 The Ants, by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson
- 1990 And Their Children After Them, by Dale Maharidge,
photographer, and Michael Williamson, reporter
- 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 Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three
American Families, by J. Anthony Lucas
- 1986 Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White, by
Joseph Lelyveld
- 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 Godel, 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 N.
Butler
- 1975 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard
- 1974 The Denial of Death, by Ernest Becker & Children
of Crisis, Vols. II and III, by Robert Coles
- 1973 Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam,
by Francis FitzGerald
- 1972 Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945,
by Barbara W. Tuchman
- 1971 The Rising Sun, By John Toland
- 1970 Ghandhi’s Truth, by Erik H. Erikson
- 1969 The Armies of the Night, by Norman Mailer &
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 H.
White
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