PULITZER PRIZE for NON FICTION

The Pulitzer Prizes are annual awards for achievements in American journalism, letters, drama and music. The prizes have been awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board at Columbia University since 1917.

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• 2004 Gulag: A History Anne Applebaum
• 2003 A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide Samantha Power
• 2002 Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution Diane McWhorter
• 2001 Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan Herbert P Bix (952.033 HIR)
• 2000 Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II John W Dower (952.04 DOW)
• 1999 Annals of the Former World John McPhee (557.3 MCP)
• 1998 Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Jared Diamond (303.4 DIA)
• 1997 Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris Richard Kluger (338.767 KLU)
• 1996 The Haunted Land: Facing Europe’s Ghosts After Communism Tina Rosenberg
• 1995 The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in our Time Jonathan Weiner (598.88 WEI)
• 1994 Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire D. Remnic (947.0854 REM)
• 1993 Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America Gary Wills (973.7 LIN)
• 1992 The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power Daniel Yergin (338.272 YER)
• 1991 The Ants Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson (595.79 HOL)
• 1990 And Their Children After Them Dale Maharidge, photographer, and Michael Williamson, reporter
• 1989 A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Neil Sheehan (959.7043 SHE)
• 1988 The Making of the Atomic Bomb Richard Rhodes (623.451 RHO)
• 1987 Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land David K. Shipler (956.9405 SHI)
• 1986 Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families J. Anthony Lucas
• 1986 Move Your Shadow: South Africa Black and White Joseph Lelyveld (323.168 LEL)
• 1985 The Good War: An Oral history of World War Two Studs Terkel
• 1984 The Social Transformation of American Medicine Paul Starr
• 1983 Is There No Place on Earth for Me Susan Sheehan
• 1982 The Soul of a New Machine Tracy Kidder (621.39 KID)
• 1981 Fin-de siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture Carl E. Schorske (943.61304 SCH)
• 1980 Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Douglas R. Hofstadter (126 GOD)
• 1979 On Human Nature Edward O.Wilson
• 1978 The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human intelligence Carl Sagan (153.9 SAG)
• 1977 Beautiful Swimmers William W. Warner
• 1976 Why Survive Being Old in America Robert N. Butler
• 1975 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard (578.0973 DIL)
• 1974 The Denial of Death Ernest Becker & Children of crisis, Vols. II and III Robert Coles
• 1973 Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam Frances FitzGerald (320.9597 FIT)
• 1972 Stilwell and the American Experience in China 1911-1945 Barbara W. Tuchman (951.042 STI)
• 1971 The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 John Toland (940.5352 TOL)
• 1970 Gandhi’s Truth Erik H. Erikson
• 1969 The Armies of the night: History as a Novel: the Novel as History Norman Mailer (322.4 MAI) & So Human an Animal Rene Jules Dubos
• 1968 Rousseau and Revolution, the tenth and concluding volume of The Story of Civilization Will and Ariel Durant
• 1967 The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture David Brion Davis (326 DAV)
• 1966 Wandering Through Winter Edwin Way Teale
• 1965 O Strange New World Howard Mumford Jones
• 1964 Anti-Intellectualism in American Life Richard Hofstadter
• 1963 The Guns of August Barbara W. Tuchman
• 1962 The Making of the President 1960 Theodore H. White (973.921 WHI)