Pulitzer Prize General Nonfiction Winners — Complete List (1962–2025) Home › Pulitzer Prizes › General Nonfiction To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans 2025PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall 2024PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa 2023PulitzerNonfiction Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott 2022PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino 2021PulitzerNonfiction The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care by Anne Boyer 2020PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin 2020PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold 2019PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr. 2018PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond 2017PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick 2016PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert 2015PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin 2014PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King 2013PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt 2012PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee 2011PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman 2010PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon 2009PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright 2007PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins 2006PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Ghost Wars by Steve Coll 2005PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum 2004PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon "A Problem From Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power 2003PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter 2002PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix 2001PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower 2000PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Annals of the Former World by John McPhee 1999PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond 1998PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger 1997PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg 1996PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time by Jonathan Weiner 1995PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days Of The Soviet Empire by David Remnick 1994PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills 1993PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin 1992PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon The Ants by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson 1991PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson 1990PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan 1989PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes 1988PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David K. Shipler 1987PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld 1986PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas 1986PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two by Studs Terkel 1985PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon The Social Transformation Of American Medicine by Paul Starr 1984PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan 1983PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder 1982PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture by Carl E. Schorske 1981PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter 1980PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson 1979PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan 1978PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner 1977PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Why Survive? Being Old In America by Robert N. Butler 1976PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard 1975PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker 1974PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances FitzGerald 1973PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Children of Crisis, Vols. II and III by Robert Coles 1973PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 by Barbara W. Tuchman 1972PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon The Rising Sun by John Toland 1971PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Gandhi's Truth by Erik H. Erikson 1970PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon The Armies Of The Night by Norman Mailer 1969PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon So Human An Animal by Rene Jules Dubos 1969PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon The Story of Civilization: Rousseau and Revolution by Will and Ariel Durant 1968PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis 1967PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale 1966PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones 1965PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter 1964PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman 1963PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White 1962PulitzerNonfiction View on Amazon
