Pulitzer Prize / non-fiction book

The Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction has been awarded since 1962.

Award winners

1962: The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White
1963: The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
1964: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
1965: O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones
1966: Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale
1967: The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis
1968: Rousseau And Revolution, The Tenth And Concluding Volume Of The Story Of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant .
1969: So Human An Animal by René Dubos
1969: The Armies Of The Night by Norman Mailer

1970: Gandhi's Truth (Eng. "Gandhi's Truth. About the Origins of Militant Nonviolence") by Erik H. Erikson
1971: The Rising Sun by John Toland
1972: Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–1945 by Barbara Tuchman
1973: Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances FitzGerald
1973: Children of Crisis, Vols. II and III by Robert Coles
1974: The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
1975: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
1976: Why Survive? Being Old In America by Robert Neil Butler
1977: Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner
1978: The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
1979: On Human Nature by EO Wilson

1980: Gödel, Escher, Bach: to Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
1981: Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture by Carl E. Schorske
1982: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
1983: Is There No Place On Earth For Me? by Susan Sheehan
1984: The Social Transformation Of American Medicine by Paul Starr
1985: The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two by Studs Terkel
1986: Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas
1986: Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld
1987: Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David K. Shipler
1988: The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
1989: A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan (Eng. "The Big Lie": John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam)

1990: And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson
1991: The Ants by Bert Hölldobler and EO Wilson
1992: The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (Eng. The price. The hunt for oil, money and power ) by Daniel Yergin
1993: Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills
1994: Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick
1995: The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
1996: The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg
1997: Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger
1998: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
1999: Annals of the Former World by John McPhee

2000: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
2001: Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
2002: Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter
2003: "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
2004: Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
2005: Ghost Wars by Steve Coll
2006: Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins
2007: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
2008: The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945 by Saul Friedländer
2009: Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon (Doubleday)

2010: The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman , ISBN 978-0-307-38784-4 .
2011: The king of all diseases: Cancer - a biography by Siddhartha Mukherjee , ISBN 978-3-8321-9644-8 .
2012: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
2013: Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King , ISBN 978-0-06-179228-1 .
2014: Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin
2015: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History ( The sixth dying. How man writes natural history ) by Elizabeth Kolbert
2016: Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick , ISBN 978-0-385-53822-0 .
2017: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
2018: Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman, Jr.
2019: Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold

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