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Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
This prize has been awarded annually since 1962 by the Columbia School of Journalism.
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J. Anthony Lukas (born 1933, died 1997)
American journalist.
- 1986 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
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Bert Holldobler
- 1991 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for The Ants
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Carl Sagan (born 1934, died 1996)
American astronomer and writer.
- 1978 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for The Dragons of Eden
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Carl E. Schorske
- 1981 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture
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Dale Maharidge
- 1990 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for And Their Children After Them
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Daniel Yergin
- 1992 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil
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David Brion Davis
- 1967 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
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David K. Shipler
- 1987 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for Arab and Jew
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David Remnick
- 1994 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for Lenin''s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
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Douglas R. Hofstadter
American mathematician and writer.
- 1980 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Edwin Way Teale
- 1966 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for Wandering Through Winter
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Eric H. Erikson (born 1902, died 1994)
German-born American child psychologist. Founder of psychobiography.
- 1970 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for Gandhi''s Truth
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Ernest Becker
- 1974 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for The Denial of Death
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Garry Wills (born 1934)
American historian.
- 1993 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
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Howard Mumford Jones
- 1965 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for O Strange New World
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John Toland
- 1971 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for The Rising Sun
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Joseph Lelyveld
- 1986 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
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Michael Williamson
- 1990 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for And Their Children After Them
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Norman Mailer (born 1923)
American novelist.
- 1969 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for The Armies of the Night
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Paul Starr
- 1984 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for The Social Transformation of American Medicine
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Rene Jules Dubos (born 1901, died 1982)
French-born American bacteriologist.
- 1969 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and Events
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Richard Hofstadter (born 1916, died 1970)
American historian.
- 1964 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
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Richard Rhodes (born 1937)
American historian.
- 1988 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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Robert N. Butler
- 1976 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for Why Survive? Being Old in America
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Louis ''Studs'' Terkel (born 1912)
American historian, writer, radio host, and actor.
- 1985 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
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Theodore H. White (born 1915, died 1986)
American historian and journalist.
- 1962 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for The Making of the President 1960
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Tracy Kidder
- 1982 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for The Soul of a New Machine
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William James ''Will'' Durant (born 1885, died 1981)
American historian, philosopher and educator.
- 1968 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for Rousseau and Revolution
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William W. Warner
- 1977 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for Beautiful Swimmers
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Neil Sheehan (born 1936)
American journalist.
- 1989 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
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Edward O. Wilson (born 1929)
American biologist and writer.
- Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, in 1979 for On Human Nature and in 1991 for The Ants
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Jonathan Weiner
American writer.
- 1995 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
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Richard Kluger
- 1997 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for Ashes to Ashes: America''s Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
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Jared Diamond
American physiologist.
- 1998 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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John McPhee
- 1999 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Non-Fiction, for Annals of the Former World
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John W. Dower
- 2000 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Non-fiction
Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
This prize has been awarded annually since 1962 by the Columbia School of Journalism.
