LibGuides: Check Out a Champion: Pulitzer Prize Winners in Literature: Nonfiction

SSPL Holdings (2011 - present)

2025 Winner:
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
by Benjamin Nathans
Call Number: 947 Nat
*shelved in New / Popular*

ISBN: 9780691117034

Publication Date: 2024-08-13
2024 Winner:
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
by Nathan Thrall
Call Number: 956.053 Thr

ISBN: 9781250854971

Publication Date: 2023-10-03
2023 Winner:
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
Call Number: B Floyd

ISBN: 9780593490617

Publication Date: 2022-05-17
2022 Winner:
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City
by Andrea Elliott
Call Number: 362.7 Ell

ISBN: 9780812986945

Publication Date: 2021-10-05
2020 Winner:
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
by Greg Grandin
Call Number: 973 Gra

ISBN: 9781250179821

Publication Date: 2019-03-05
2020 Winner:
The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care
by Anne Boyer
Call Number: B Boyer

ISBN: 9780374279349

Publication Date: 2019-09-17
2018 Winner:
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
by James Forman
Call Number: 364.973 For

ISBN: 9780374189976

Publication Date: 2017-04-18
2017 Winner:
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by Matthew Desmond
Call Number: 339.4609 Des

ISBN: 9780553447439

Publication Date: 2016-03-01
2016 Winner:
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
by Joby Warrick
Call Number: 956.9104 War

ISBN: 9780385538213

Publication Date: 2015-09-29
2015 Winner:
*The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Call Number: 576.84 Kol [LOST]

ISBN: 9780805092998

Publication Date: 2014-02-11
2014 Winner:
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
by Dan Fagin
Call Number: 363.7209 Fag

ISBN: 9780553806533

Publication Date: 2013-03-19
2013 Winner:
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
by Gilbert King
Call Number: [may be available as a print book through Interlibrary Loan]
Available as an eBook from SSPL

ISBN: 9780061792267

Publication Date: 2013-02-19
2012 Winner:
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
by Stephen Greenblatt
Call Number: 940.21 Gre

ISBN: 9780393064476

Publication Date: 2011-09-26
2011 Winner:
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Call Number: 616.994 Muk

ISBN: 9781439170915

Publication Date: 2011-08-09

SSPL Holdings (1962 - 2010)

2010 Winner:
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
by David Hoffman
Call Number: 909.82 Hof

ISBN: 9780385524377

Publication Date: 2009-09-22
2006 Winner:
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
by Caroline Elkins
Call Number: 967.62 Elk

ISBN: 0805076530

Publication Date: 2005-01-11
2005 Winner:
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
by Steve Coll
Call Number: 958.104 Col

ISBN: 1594200076

Publication Date: 2004-02-23
2001 Winner:
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
by Herbert P. Bix
Call Number: 952.03 Bix

ISBN: 0060931302

Publication Date: 2001-09-04
2000 Winner:
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
by John W. Dower
Call Number: 952 Dow

ISBN: 0393046869

Publication Date: 1999-03-17
1998 Winner:
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
Call Number: TEEN 303.4 Dia

ISBN: 9780393061314

Publication Date: 2005-07-17
1993 Winner:
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America
by Garry Wills
Call Number: 973.7 Wil

ISBN: 0671769561

Publication Date: 1992-06-15
1988 Winner:
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
Call Number: 623.4 Rho

ISBN: 9780684813783

Publication Date: 1995-08-01
1982 Winner:
The Soul of a New Machine
by Tracy Kidder
Call Number: 621.3819 K

ISBN: 0316491977

Publication Date: 2000-06-01
1979 Winner:
On Human Nature
by Edward O. Wilson
Call Number: 301 W

ISBN: 0674634411

Publication Date: 1978-10-02
1973 Winner:
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
by Frances FitzGerald
Call Number: 320.9597 Fit

ISBN: 9780316159197

Publication Date: 2002-07-17
1972 Winner:
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
by Barbara W. Tuchman
Call Number: 951.04 Tuc

ISBN: 0802138527

Publication Date: 2001-10-10
1968 Winner:
The Story of Civilization: Rousseau and Revolution
by Will and Ariel Durant
Call Number: 901 Dur, Vol. I-X

ISBN: 9780671630584

Publication Date: 1967-09-25
1963 Winner:
The Guns of August
by Barbara W. Tuchman
Call Number: 940.4144 Tuc*

ISBN: 9781598531459

Publication Date: 2012-03-01

*Found in: Tuchman: The Guns of August; The Proud Tower

Winners from Other Years (1987 - present)

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to see if a copy can be located
through Interlibrary Loan!

Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
by David Zucchino
Year Won: 2021
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
by Eliza Griswold
Year Won: 2019
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
by Douglas A. Blackmon
Year Won: 2009
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
by Saul Friedlander
Year Won: 2008
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Lawrence Wright
Year Won: 2007
Gulag: A History
by Anne Applebaum
Year Won: 2004
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
by Samantha Power
Year Won: 2003
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
by Diane McWhorter
Year Won: 2002
Annals of the Former World
by John McPhee
Year Won: 1999
Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
by Richard Kluger
Year Won: 1997
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
by Tina Rosenberg
Year Won: 1996
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
by Jonathan Weiner
Year Won: 1995
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
by David Remnick
Year Won: 1994
The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money and Power
by Daniel Yergin
Year Won: 1992
The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct
by Edward O. Wilson and Bert Hölldobler
Year Won: 1991
And Their Children After Them
by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson
Year Won: 1990
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
by Neil Sheehan
Year Won: 1989
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
by David K. Shipler
Year Won: 1987

Winners from Other Years (1962 - 1986)

Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
by J. Anthony Lukas
Year Won: 1986
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
by Joseph Lelyveld
Year Won: 1986
The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two
by Studs Terkel
Year Won: 1985
The Social Transformation of American Medicine
by Paul Starr
Year Won: 1984
Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
by Susan Sheehan
Year Won: 1983
Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture
by Carl E. Schorske
Year Won: 1981
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Year Won: 1980
The Dragons of Eden
by Carl Sagan
Year Won: 1978
Beautiful Swimmers
by William W. Warner
Year Won: 1977
Why Survive? Being Old in America
by Robert N. Butler
Year Won: 1976
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard
Year Won: 1975
The Denial of Death
by Ernest Becker
Year Won: 1974
Children of Crisis, Vols. II and III
by Robert Coles
Year Won: 1973
The Rising Sun
by John Toland
Year Won: 1971
Gandhi's Truth
by Erik H. Erikson
Year Won: 1970
So Human an Animal
by Rene Jules Dubos
Year Won: 1969
The Armies of the Night
by Norman Mailer
Year Won: 1969
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
by David Brion Davis
Year Won: 1967
Wandering Through Winter
by Edwin Way Teale
Year Won: 1966
O Strange New World
by Howard Mumford Jones
Year Won: 1965
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
by Richard Hofstadter
Year Won: 1964
The Making of the President 1960
by Theodore H. White
Year Won: 1962

Check Out a Champion: Pulitzer Prize Winners in Literature: Nonfiction

The Award

The Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction is awarded for “a distinguished and appropriately documented book of nonfiction by
an American author” (first given in 1962). See also: winners in the History, Biography, and Memoir/Autobiography categories.

“General Nonfiction.” The Pulitzer Prizes. Columbia University, 2024. Web. www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/223.

SSPL Holdings (2011 - present)

SSPL Holdings (1962 - 2010)

Winners from Other Years (1987 - present)

Ask at the Reference Desk (ext. 304)
to see if a copy can be located
through Interlibrary Loan!

Winners from Other Years (1962 - 1986)

Check Out a Champion: Pulitzer Prize Winners in Literature: Nonfiction

The Award

The Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction is awarded for “a distinguished and appropriately documented book of nonfiction by an American author” (first given in 1962). See also: winners in the History, Biography, and Memoir/Autobiography categories.

“General Nonfiction.” The Pulitzer Prizes. Columbia University, 2024. Web. www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/223.

SSPL Holdings (2011 - present)

SSPL Holdings (1962 - 2010)

Winners from Other Years (1987 - present)

Ask at the Reference Desk (ext. 304) to see if a copy can be located through Interlibrary Loan!

Winners from Other Years (1962 - 1986)

The Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction is awarded for “a distinguished and appropriately documented book of nonfiction by
an American author” (first given in 1962). See also: winners in the History, Biography, and Memoir/Autobiography categories.

Ask at the Reference Desk (ext. 304)
to see if a copy can be located
through Interlibrary Loan!