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PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION
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The Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction was established in 1962. The Prize is "for a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American Author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category.
| 2004 | Anne Applebaum | Gulag: A History |
| 2003 | Samantha Power | A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide |
| 2002 | Diane McWhorter | Carry Me Home: Birmingham Alabama, the Climatic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution |
| 2001 | Herbert P. Bix | Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan |
| 2000 | John W. Dower | Embracing Deteat: Japan in the Wake of World WarII |
| 1999 | John McPhee | Annals of the Former World |
| 1998 | Jared Diamond | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Society |
| 1997 | Richard Kluger | Ashes to Ashes |
| 1996 | Tina Rosenberg | The Haunted Land |
| 1995 | Jonathan Weiner | The Beak of the Finch |
| 1994 | David Remnick | Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire |
| 1993 | Gary Wills | Lincoln at Gettysburg |
| 1992 | Daniel Yergin | The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power |
| 1991 | Bert Holldobler
Edward O. Wilson |
The Ants |
| 1990 | Dale Maharidge
Michael Williamson |
And Their Children After Them |
| 1989 | Neil Sheehan | A Bright and Shining Lie |
| 1988 | Richard Rhodes | The Making of the Atomic Bomb |
| 1987 | David K. Shipler | Arab and Jew |
| 1986 | Joseph Lelyveld | Move Your Shadow |
| 1986 | J. Anthony Lucas | Common Ground |
| 1985 | Studs Terkel | The Good War |
| 1984 | Paul Starr | The Social Transformation of American Medicine |
| 1983 | Susan Sheehan | Is There No Place on Earth for Me? |
| 1982 | Tracy Kidder | The Soul of a New Machine |
| 1981 | Carl E. Schorske | Fin-de Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture |
| 1980 | Douglas R. Hofstadter | Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid |
| 1979 | Edward O. Wilson | On Human Nature |
| 1978 | Carl Sagan | The Dragons of Eden |
| 1977 | William N. Warner | Beautiful Swimmers |
| 1976 | Robert N. Butler | Why Survive? Being Old in America |
| 1975 | Annie Dillard | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek |
| 1974 | Ernest Becker | The Denial of Death |
| 1973 | Robert Coles | Children of Crisis, Vols. 2 & 3 |
| 1973 | Frances Fitzgerald | Fire in the Lake |
| 1972 | Barbara W. Tuchman | Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 |
| 1971 | John Toland | The Rising Sun |
| 1970 | Erik H. Erikson | Gandhi's Truth |
| 1969 | Rene Jules Dubos | So Human an Animal |
| 1969 | Norman Mailer | The Armies of the Night |
| 1968 | Will and Ariel Durant | Rousseau and Revolution |
| 1967 | David Brion Davis | The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture |
| 1966 | Edwin Way Teal | Wandering Through Winter |
| 1965 | Howard Mumford Jones | O Strange New World |
| 1964 | Richard Hofstadter | Anti-Intellectualism in American Life |
| 1963 | Barbara W. Tuchman | The Guns of August |
| 1962 | Theodore H. White | The Making of the President, 1960 |
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