Pulitzer Prize Winners - General Non-Fiction

  1. 2011: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
  2. 2010: The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy -- David E. Hoffman
  3. 2009: Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II -- Douglas A. Blackmon
  4. 2008: The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 -- Saul Friedländer
  5. 2007: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 -- Lawrence Wright
  6. 2006: Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya -- Caroline Elkins
  7. 2005: Ghost Wars -- Steve Coll
  8. 2004: Gulag: A History -- Anne Applebaum
  9. 2003: A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide -- Samantha Power
  10. 2002: Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution -- Diane McWhorter
  11. 2001: Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan -- Herbert P. Bix
  12. 2000: Embracing Defeat -- John W. Dower
  13. 1999: Annals of the Former World -- John McPhee
  14. 1998: Guns, Germs & Steel -- Jared Diamond
  15. 1997: Ashes to Ashes -- Kluger, Richard
  16. 1996: Haunted Land -- Tina Rosenberg
  17. 1995: Beak of the Finch -- Jonathan Weiner
  18. 1994: Lenin's Tomb -- David Remnick
  19. 1993: Lincoln at Gettysburg -- Garry Wills
  20. 1992: Prize -- Daniel H. Yergin
  21. 1991: Journey to the Ants -- Bert Holldobler
  22. 1990: And Their Children After Them -- Dale Maharidge
  23. 1989: Bright Shining Lie -- Neil Sheehan
  24. 1988: Making of the Atomic Bomb -- Richard Rhodes
  25. 1987: Arab & Jew -- David K. Shipler
  26. 1986:Tie: Common Ground -- J. Anthony Lukas
  27. 1986:Tie: Move Your Shadow -- Joseph Lelyveld
  28. 1985: Good War -- Studs Terkel
  29. 1984: Social Transformation of American Medicine -- Paul Starr
  30. 1983: Is There No Place on Earth for Me? -- Susan Sheehan
  31. 1982: Soul of a New Machine -- Tracy Kidder
  32. 1981: Fin-de-Siecle Vienna -- Carl E. Schorske
  33. 1980: Godel, Escher, Bach -- Douglas R. Hofstadter
  34. 1979: On Human Nature -- Edward O. Wilson
  35. 1978: Dragons of Eden -- Carl Sagan
  36. 1977: Beautiful Swimmers -- William W. Warner
  37. 1976: Why Survive?: Being Old in America -- Robert N. Butler
  38. 1975: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek -- Annie Dillard
  39. 1974: Denial of Death -- Ernest Becker
  40. 1973:Tie: Fire in the Lake -- Frances Fitzgerarld
  41. 1973:Tie: Children of Crisis Vol. 3: The South Goes North -- Robert Coles
  42. 1972: Stilwell & the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 -- Barbara W. Tuchman
  43. 1971: Rising Sun -- John Toland
  44. 1970: Gandhi's Truth -- Erik H. Erikson
  45. 1969:Tie: Armies of the Night -- Norman Mailer
  46. 1969:Tie: So Human an Animal -- Rene Jules Dubos
  47. 1968: Rousseau & Revolution -- Will Durant
  48. 1967: Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
  49. 1966: Wandering Through Winter -- Edwin Way Teale -- David Brion Davis
  50. 1965: O Strange New World -- Howard M. Jones
  51. 1964: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life -- Richard Hofstadter
  52. 1963: The Guns of August -- Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim
  53. 1962: Making of the President, 1960 -- Theodore H. White
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These are the Pulitzer Prize winners in Non-Fiction.