Book prize
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction winners
14 winners and 2 nominees we hold, newest first. A prize can lift demand for a book's first printing, so each entry links to its first edition and the points that identify it.
The Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction has 14 winners we hold, from 1968 to 2020, and 2 nominees. The most recent winner here is The End of the Myth (2020), first published by Metropolitan Books in 2019. Each entry links to the first edition and the points that identify it.
Won
Winners
- 2020 The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin First edition: Metropolitan Books 2019
- 2017 Evicted by Matthew Desmond First edition not yet identified
- 2012 The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt First edition: Norton 2011
- 2007 The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright First edition: Knopf 2006
- 2001 Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix First edition: HarperCollins 2000
- 1998 Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond First edition: Norton 1997
- 1995 The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner First edition not yet identified
- 1994 Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick First edition not yet identified
- 1991 The Ants by Bert Hölldobler First edition not yet identified
- 1989 A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan First edition not yet identified
- 1982 The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder First edition not yet identified
- 1978 The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan First edition: Random House 1977
- 1970 Gandhi's Truth by Erik Erikson First edition not yet identified
- 1968 The Story of Civilization by Will Durant First edition: Simon & Schuster 1935
Shortlisted and nominated
Also in the running
- 2011 The Shallows by Nicholas G. Carr First edition: Norton 2010
- 1996 Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler First edition: Pantheon Books 1995
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