Pulitzer Prize: General Non-Fiction

Christchurch City Libraries lists literary prize winners and links to catalogue searches, but we may not hold copies of all titles mentioned.

This award of General Non-Fiction was created in 1962.

• 2012 The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, by Stephen Greenblatt
• 2011 The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee
• 2010 The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy David E. Hoffman
• 2009 Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II Douglas A. Blackmon
• 2008 The Years of Extermination Saul Friedlander
• 2007 The Looming Tower Lawrence Wright
• 2006 Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya Caroline Elkins
• 2005 Ghost Wars Steve Coll
• 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
• 2000 Embracing defeat: Japan in the wake of World War II John W Dower
• 1999 Annals of the former world John McPhee
• 1998 Guns, germs, and steel: The Fates of human societies Jared Diamond
• 1997 Ashes to ashes: America’s hundred-year cigarette war, the public health, and the unabashed triumph of Philip Morris Richard Kluger
• 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
• 1994 Lenin’s Tomb: the last days of the Soviet Empire D. Remnic
• 1993 Lincoln at Gettysburg: the words that remade America Gary Wills
• 1992 The Prize: The Epic quest for oil, money & power Daniel Yergin
• 1991 The Ants Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson
• 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
• 1988 The Making of the atomic bomb Richard Rhodes
• 1987 Arab and Jew: Wounded spirits in a promised land David K. Shipler
• 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
• 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
• 1981 Fin-de siecle Vienna: Politics and culture Carl E. Schorske
• 1980 Godel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid Douglas R. Hofstadter
• 1979 On Human nature Edward O.Wilson
• 1978 The Dragons of Eden: speculations on the evolution of human intelligence Carl Sagan
• 1977 Beautiful swimmers William W. Warner
• 1976 Why survive being old in America Robert N. Butler
• 1975 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard
• 1974 The Denial of death Ernest Becker and Children of crisis, Vols. II and III Robert Coles
• 1973 Fire in the lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam Frances FitzGerald
• 1972 Stilwell and the American experience in China 1911-1945 Barbara W. Tuchman
• 1971 The Rising sun: The Decline and fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 John Toland
• 1970 Gandhi’s Truth Erik H. Erikson
• 1969 The Armies of the night: history as a novel: the novel as history Norman Mailer and 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
• 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