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{{Short description|American award for nonfiction books}}
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The '''Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction''' is one of the seven American [[Pulitzer Prizes]] that are awarded annually for the "Letters, Drama, and Music" category. The award is given to a nonfiction book written by an American author and published during the preceding calendar year that is ineligible for any other Pulitzer Prize. The Prize has been awarded since 1962; beginning in 1980, one to three finalists have been announced alongside the winner.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=General Nonfiction|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/223|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210318235111/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/223|archive-date=March 18, 2021|access-date=March 24, 2021|website=[[Pulitzer Prize|The Pulitzer Prizes]]}}</ref>

==Recipients==
During the year 1969, 1973, 1986, and 2020, two winners were awarded the prize<ref name=":0" /> An additional one to three finalists have been announced alongside the winner beginning in 1980. Two authors have won multiple prizes: [[Barbara W. Tuchman]] in 1963 and 1972, and [[Edward O. Wilson]] in 1979 and 1991. Additionally, two authors have been finalists multiple times: [[Steven Pinker]] (1998, 2003) and [[John McPhee]] (1982, 1987, 1991); McPhee won the Prize in 1999. Three winning works were also finalists for the [[Pulitzer Prize for History]]: ''[[A Bright Shining Lie|A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam]]'' by [[Neil Sheehan]] (1989),<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, by Neil Sheehan (Random House)|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/neil-sheehan-0|access-date=March 26, 2021|website=[[Pulitzer Prize|The Pulitzer Prizes]]}}</ref> ''[[Lincoln at Gettysburg|Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America]]'' by [[Garry Wills]] (1993),<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, by Garry Wills (Simon & Schuster)|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/garry-wills|access-date=March 26, 2021|website=[[Pulitzer Prize|The Pulitzer Prizes]]}}</ref> and ''[[The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America]]'' by [[Greg Grandin]] (2020).<ref>{{Cite web|title=The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, by Greg Grandin (Metropolitan Books)|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/greg-grandin-0|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200504204137/https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/greg-grandin-0|archive-date=May 4, 2020|access-date=April 17, 2021|website=[[Pulitzer Prize|The Pulitzer Prizes]]}}</ref>

[[File:Barbara W. Tuchman.JPG|alt=A black-and-white photo of Barbara W. Tuchman in 1971|thumb|[[Barbara W. Tuchman]] won the Prize in 1963 for her book on [[World War I]], and again in 1972 for her work on early 20th-century [[China]].]]

[[File:Plos wilson.jpg|alt=A color photo of Edward O. Wilson in 2003|thumb|[[Edward O. Wilson]] has won the Prize twice for his books on [[biology]]: once in 1979, and again in 1991 in collaboration with [[Bert Hölldobler]].]]

[[File:John Mcphee.jpg|alt=A black-and-white photo of John McPhee|thumb|[[John McPhee]] was a Prize finalist three times in 1982, 1987, and 1991, before winning in 1999.]]

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!scope="col" |Author(s)
!scope="col" |Book
!scope="col" |Publisher
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|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!scope="row" |'''[[1962 Pulitzer Prize|1962]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Theodore H.|White}}'''
|data-sort-value="Making of the President 1960, The" |'''''[[The Making of the President 1960]]'''''
|'''[[Atheneum Books|Atheneum]]'''
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!scope="row" |'''[[1963 Pulitzer Prize|1963]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Barbara W.|Tuchman}}'''
|data-sort-value="Guns of August, The" |'''''[[The Guns of August]]'''''
|'''[[Macmillan Inc.|Macmillan]]'''
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!scope="row" |'''[[1964 Pulitzer Prize|1964]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Richard|Hofstadter}}'''
|'''''[[Anti-intellectualism in American Life|Anti-Intellectualism in American Life]]'''''
|'''[[Random House]]'''
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!scope="row" |'''[[1965 Pulitzer Prize|1965]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Howard Mumford|Jones}}'''
|'''''[[O Strange New World|O Strange New World: American Culture: The Formative Years]]'''''
|'''[[Viking Press|Viking]]'''
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!scope="row" |'''[[1966 Pulitzer Prize|1966]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Edwin Way|Teale}}'''
|'''''[[Wandering Through Winter|Wandering through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey through the North American Winter]]'''''
|'''[[Dodd, Mead & Co.|Dodd]]'''
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!scope="row" |'''[[1967 Pulitzer Prize|1967]]'''
|'''{{sortname|David Brion|Davis}}'''
|data-sort-value="Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, The" |'''''[[The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture]]'''''
|'''[[Cornell University Press]]'''
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=2 scope="row" |'''[[1968 Pulitzer Prize|1968]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Ariel|Durant}}'''
|rowspan=2 data-sort-value="Story of Civilization: Rousseau and Revolution, The" |'''''[[Rousseau And Revolution|The Story of Civilization: Rousseau and Revolution]]'''''
|rowspan=2 |'''[[Simon & Schuster|Simon and Schuster]]'''
|rowspan=2 |
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Will|Durant}}'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=2 scope="row" |'''[[1969 Pulitzer Prize|1969]]'''
|'''{{sortname|René|Dubos}}'''
|'''''[[So Human an Animal|So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and Events]]'''''
|'''[[Charles Scribner's Sons|Scribner]]'''
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Norman|Mailer}}'''
|data-sort-value="Armies of the Night, The" |'''''[[The Armies of the Night|The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History]]'''''
|'''[[World Publishing Company|World]]'''
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!scope="row" |'''[[1970 Pulitzer Prize|1970]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Erik|Erikson}}'''
|'''''[[Gandhi's Truth|Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence]]'''''
|'''[[W. W. Norton & Company|W. W. Norton]]'''
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!scope="row" |'''[[1971 Pulitzer Prize|1971]]'''
|'''{{sortname|John|Toland|dab=historian}}'''
|data-sort-value="Rising Sun, The" |'''''[[The Rising Sun|The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945]]'''''
|'''[[Random House]]'''
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!scope="row" |'''[[1972 Pulitzer Prize|1972]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Barbara W.|Tuchman}}'''
|'''''[[Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45|Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–1945]]'''''
|'''[[Macmillan Inc.|Macmillan]]'''
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=2 scope="row" |'''[[1973 Pulitzer Prize|1973]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Robert|Coles|dab=psychiatrist}}'''
|'''''[[Children of Crisis]], Volumes II and III'''''
|'''[[Little, Brown and Company|Little]]'''
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Frances|FitzGerald|dab=journalist}}'''
|'''''[[Fire in the Lake|Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam]]'''''
|'''[[Little, Brown and Company|Little]]'''
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=2 scope="row" |'''[[1974 Pulitzer Prize|1974]]'''
|rowspan=2 |'''{{sortname|Ernest|Becker}}'''
|rowspan=2 data-sort-value="Denial of Death, The" |'''''[[The Denial of Death]]'''''
|'''[[Free Press (publisher)|Free Press]]'''
|rowspan=2 |
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''[[Macmillan Inc.|Macmillan]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!scope="row" |'''[[1975 Pulitzer Prize|1975]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Annie|Dillard}}'''
|'''''[[Pilgrim at Tinker Creek]]'''''
|'''[[Harper's Magazine Press]]'''
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!scope="row" |'''[[1976 Pulitzer Prize|1976]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Robert N.|Butler}}'''
|'''''[[Why Survive?|Why Survive?: Being Old in America]]'''''
|'''[[Harper (publisher)|Harper]]'''
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!scope="row" |'''[[1977 Pulitzer Prize|1977]]'''
|'''{{sortname|William W.|Warner}}'''
|'''''[[Beautiful Swimmers|Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay]]'''''
|'''[[Little, Brown and Company|Little]]'''
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!scope="row" |'''[[1978 Pulitzer Prize|1978]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Carl|Sagan}}'''
|data-sort-value="Dragons of Eden, The" |'''''[[The Dragons of Eden|The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence]]'''''
|'''[[Random House]]'''
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!scope="row" |'''[[1979 Pulitzer Prize|1979]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Edward O.|Wilson}}'''
|'''''[[On Human Nature]]'''''
|'''[[Harvard University Press]]'''
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=4 scope="row" |'''[[1980 Pulitzer Prize|1980]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Douglas|Hofstadter}}'''
|'''''[[Gödel, Escher, Bach|Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid]]'''''
|'''[[Basic Books]]'''
|
|-
|{{sortname|Sandra|Gilbert}}
|rowspan=2 data-sort-value="Madwoman in the Attic, The" |''[[The Madwoman in the Attic|The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination]]''
|rowspan=2 |[[Yale University Press]]
|rowspan=2 |
|-
|{{sortname|Susan|Gubar}}
|-
|{{sortname|Lewis|Thomas}}
|data-sort-value="Medusa and the Snail, The" |''[[The Medusa and the Snail|The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher]]''
|[[Viking Press|Viking]]
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=4 scope="row" |'''[[1981 Pulitzer Prize|1981]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Carl E.|Schorske}}'''
|'''''[[Fin-de-siècle Vienna|Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture]]'''''
|'''[[Alfred A. Knopf|Knopf]]'''
|
|-
|{{sortname|Marshall|Frady}}
|''Southerners: A Journalist's Odyssey''
|[[New American Library]]
|
|-
|{{sortname|Maxine|Hong Kingston}}
|''[[China Men]]''
|[[Alfred A. Knopf|Knopf]]
|
|-
|{{sortname|William|Manchester}}
|''Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War''
|[[Little, Brown and Company|Little]]
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=4 scope="row" |'''[[1982 Pulitzer Prize|1982]]'''
|rowspan=2 |'''{{sortname|Tracy|Kidder}}'''
|rowspan=2 data-sort-value="Soul of a New Machine, The" |'''''[[The Soul of a New Machine]]'''''
|'''[[The Atlantic|Atlantic]]'''
|rowspan=2 |
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''[[Little, Brown and Company|Little]]'''
|-
|{{sortname|John|McPhee}}
|''Basin and Range''
|[[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]]
|
|-
|{{sortname|Diana|Trilling}}
|''Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor''
|[[Harcourt (publisher)|Harcourt]]
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[1983 Pulitzer Prize|1983]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Susan|Sheehan}}'''
|'''''[[Is There No Place on Earth for Me?]]'''''
|'''[[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|Houghton Mifflin]]'''
|
|-
|{{sortname|Diane|Johnson}}
|''Terrorists and Novelists''
|[[Alfred A. Knopf|Knopf]]
|
|-
|{{sortname|Jonathan|Schell}}
|data-sort-value="Fate of the Earth, The" |''[[The Fate of the Earth]]''
|[[Alfred A. Knopf|Knopf]]
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=4 scope="row" |'''[[1984 Pulitzer Prize|1984]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Paul|Starr}}'''
|data-sort-value="Social Transformation of American Medicine, The" |'''''[[The Social Transformation of American Medicine]]'''''
|'''[[Basic Books]]'''
|
|-
|{{sortname|Winston|Groom}}
|rowspan=2 |''Conversations with the Enemy''
|rowspan=2 |[[G. P. Putnam's Sons|Putnam]]
|rowspan=2 |
|-
|{{sortname|Duncan|Spencer|dab=writer}}
|-
|{{sortname|Susan|Jacoby}}
|''Wild Justice''
|[[Harper (publisher)|Harper]]
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[1985 Pulitzer Prize|1985]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Studs|Terkel}}'''
|data-sort-value="Good War: An Oral History of World War Two, The" |'''''[[The Good War|"The Good War": An Oral History of World War II]]'''''
|'''[[Pantheon Books|Pantheon]]'''
|
|-
|{{sortname|Donald|Keene}}
|''Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era''
|[[Henry Holt and Company|Holt]]
|
|-
|{{sortname|Jonathan|Kwitny}}
|''Endless Enemies: The Making of an Unfriendly World''
|[[Congdon and Weed]]
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[1986 Pulitzer Prize|1986]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Joseph|Lelyveld}}'''
|'''''[[Move Your Shadow|Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White]]'''''
|'''[[Times Books]]'''
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|J. Anthony|Lukas}}'''
|'''''[[Common Ground (Lukas book)|Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families]]'''''
|'''[[Alfred A. Knopf|Knopf]]'''
|
|-
|{{sortname|Robert N.|Bellah}}
|''Habits and the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life''
|[[University of California Press]]
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[1987 Pulitzer Prize|1987]]'''
|'''{{sortname|David K.|Shipler}}'''
|'''''[[Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land]]'''''
|'''[[Times Books]]'''
|
|-
|{{sortname|Cyra|McFadden}}
|''Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir''
|[[Alfred A. Knopf|Knopf]]
|
|-
|{{sortname|John|McPhee}}
|''Rising from the Plains''
|[[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]]
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[1988 Pulitzer Prize|1988]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Richard|Rhodes}}'''
|data-sort-value="Making of the Atomic Bomb, The" |'''''[[The Making of the Atomic Bomb]]'''''
|'''[[Simon & Schuster|Simon and Schuster]]'''
|
|-
|{{sortname|Daniel|Callahan}}
|''Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society''
|[[Simon & Schuster|Simon and Schuster]]
|
|-
|{{sortname|James|Gleick}}
|''[[Chaos: Making a New Science]]''
|[[Viking Press|Viking]]
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=4 scope="row" |'''[[1989 Pulitzer Prize|1989]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Neil|Sheehan}}'''
|data-sort-value="Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, A" |'''''[[A Bright Shining Lie|A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam]]'''''
|'''[[Random House]]'''
|
|-
|{{sortname|McGeorge|Bundy}}
|''Danger and Survival: Choices about the Bomb in the First Fifty Years''
|[[Random House]]
|
|-
|{{sortname|Timothy|Ferris}}
|''Coming of Age in the Milky Way''
|[[William Morrow and Company|William Morrow]]
|
|-
|{{sortname|Howard|Kohn}}
|data-sort-value="Last Farmer, The" |''The Last Farmer''
|[[Simon & Schuster|Summit Books]]
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=4 scope="row" |'''[[1990 Pulitzer Prize|1990]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Dale|Maharidge}}'''
|rowspan=2 |'''''[[And Their Children After Them (Maharidge and Williamson book)|And Their Children after Them]]'''''
|rowspan=2 |'''[[Pantheon Books|Pantheon]]'''
|rowspan=2 |
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Michael|Williamson|dab=photographer}}'''
|-
|{{sortname|David|Fromkin}}
|data-sort-value="Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914–1922, A" |''[[A Peace to End All Peace|A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914–1922]]''
|[[Henry Holt and Company|Holt]]
|
|-
|{{sortname|Stephen Jay|Gould}}
|''[[Wonderful Life (book)|Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History]]''
|[[W. W. Norton & Company|W. W. Norton]]
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=5 scope="row" |'''[[1991 Pulitzer Prize|1991]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Bert|Hölldobler}}'''
|rowspan=2 data-sort-value="Ants, The" |'''''[[The Ants]]'''''
|rowspan=2 |'''[[Harvard University Press]] (Belknap)'''
|rowspan=2 |
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Edward O.|Wilson}}'''
|-
|{{sortname|William|deBuys}}
|rowspan=2 |''River of Traps: A Village Life''
|rowspan=2 |[[University of New Mexico Press]]
|rowspan=2 |
|-
|{{sortname|Alex|Harris|dab=writer}}
|-
|{{sortname|John|McPhee}}
|''Looking for a Ship''
|[[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]]
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=4 scope="row" |'''[[1992 Pulitzer Prize|1992]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Daniel|Yergin}}'''
|data-sort-value="Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, The" |'''''[[The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power]]'''''
|'''[[Simon & Schuster|Simon and Schuster]]'''
|
|-
|{{sortname|Andre|Dubus}}
|''Broken Vessels''
|[[Godine]]
|
|-
|{{sortname|Mary|Edsall}}
|rowspan=2 |''Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics''
|rowspan=2 |[[W. W. Norton & Company|W. W. Norton]]
|rowspan=2 |
|-
|{{sortname|Thomas B.|Edsall}}
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=4 scope="row" |'''[[1993 Pulitzer Prize|1993]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Garry|Wills}}'''
|'''''[[Lincoln at Gettysburg|Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America]]'''''
|'''[[Simon & Schuster|Simon and Schuster]]'''
|
|-
|{{sortname|Susan|Griffin}}
|data-sort-value="Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War, A" |''A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War''
|[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]]
|
|-
|{{sortname|Anne|Matthews}}
|''Where the Buffalo Roam: Restoring America's Great Plains''
|[[Grove Press|Grove]]
|
|-
|{{sortname|Richard|Rodriguez}}
|''Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father''
|[[Viking Press|Viking]]
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[1994 Pulitzer Prize|1994]]'''
|'''{{sortname|David|Remnick}}'''
|'''''[[Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire]]'''''
|'''[[Random House]]'''
|
|-
|{{sortname|Peter|Gay}}
|data-sort-value="Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud, The" |''The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud''
|[[W. W. Norton & Company|W. W. Norton]]
|
|-
|{{sortname|John|Lukacs}}
|data-sort-value="End of the Twentieth Century: And the End of the Modern Age, The" |''The End of the Twentieth Century: And the End of the Modern Age''
|[[Ticknor and Fields]]
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[1995 Pulitzer Prize|1995]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Jonathan|Weiner}}'''
|data-sort-value="Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time, The" |'''''[[The Beak of the Finch|The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time]]'''''
|'''[[Alfred A. Knopf|Knopf]]'''
|
|-
|{{sortname|John|Berendt}}
|''[[Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil|Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story]]''
|[[Random House]]
|
|-
|{{sortname|Sherwin B.|Nuland}}
|''How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter''
|[[Alfred A. Knopf|Knopf]]
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[1996 Pulitzer Prize|1996]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Tina|Rosenberg}}'''
|data-sort-value="Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism, The" |'''''[[The Haunted Land|The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts after Communism]]'''''
|'''[[Random House]]'''
|
|-
|{{sortname|Daniel|Dennett}}
|''[[Darwin's Dangerous Idea|Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life]]''
|[[Simon & Schuster|Simon and Schuster]]
|
|-
|{{sortname|Lawrence|Weschler}}
|''[[Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder|Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology]]''
|[[Pantheon Books|Pantheon]]
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[1997 Pulitzer Prize|1997]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Richard|Kluger}}'''
|'''''[[Ashes to Ashes (Kluger book)|Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris]]'''''
|'''[[Alfred A. Knopf|Knopf]]'''
|
|-
|{{sortname|Samuel G.|Freedman}}
|data-sort-value="Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond, The" |''The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond''
|[[Simon & Schuster|Simon and Schuster]]
|
|-
|{{sortname|Cynthia|Ozick}}
|''Fame and Folly''
|[[Alfred A. Knopf|Knopf]]
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[1998 Pulitzer Prize|1998]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Jared|Diamond}}'''
|'''''[[Guns, Germs, and Steel|Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies]]'''''
|'''[[W. W. Norton & Company|W. W. Norton]]'''
|
|-
|{{sortname|Jon|Krakauer}}
|''[[Into Thin Air|Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster]]''
|[[Villard (imprint)|Villard]]
|
|-
|{{sortname|Steven|Pinker}}
|''[[How the Mind Works]]''
|[[W. W. Norton & Company|W. W. Norton]]
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[1999 Pulitzer Prize|1999]]'''
|'''{{sortname|John|McPhee}}'''
|'''''[[Annals of the Former World]]'''''
|'''[[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]]'''
|
|-
|{{sortname|Elliott|Currie}}
|''Crime and Punishment in America''
|[[Henry Holt and Company|Metropolitan Books]]
|
|-
|{{sortname|Judith|Rich Harris}}
|data-sort-value="Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do" |''[[The Nurture Assumption|The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do]]''
|[[Free Press (publisher)|Free Press]]
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=5 scope="row" |'''[[2000 Pulitzer Prize|2000]]'''
|rowspan=2 |'''{{sortname|John W.|Dower}}'''
|rowspan=2 |'''''[[Embracing Defeat|Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II]]'''''
|'''[[The New Press|New Press]]'''
|rowspan=2 |
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''[[W. W. Norton & Company|W. W. Norton]]'''
|-
|{{sortname|Brian|Greene}}
|data-sort-value="Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, The" |''[[The Elegant Universe|The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory]]''
|[[W. W. Norton & Company|W. W. Norton]]
|
|-
|rowspan=2 |{{sortname|Scott|Weidensaul}}
|rowspan=2 |''Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds''
|[[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]]
|rowspan=2 |
|-
|North Point Press
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[2001 Pulitzer Prize|2001]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Herbert P.|Bix}}'''
|'''''[[Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan]]'''''
|'''[[HarperCollins]]'''
|
|-
|{{sortname|Ted|Conover}}
|''[[Newjack|Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing]]''
|[[Random House]]
|
|-
|{{sortname|Dave|Eggers}}
|data-sort-value="Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, A" |''[[A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius]]''
|[[Simon & Schuster|Simon and Schuster]]
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[2002 Pulitzer Prize|2002]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Diane|McWhorter}}'''
|'''''[[Carry Me Home (book)|Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution]]'''''
|'''[[Simon & Schuster|Simon and Schuster]]'''
|
|-
|{{sortname|David|Halberstam}}
|''War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals''
|[[Charles Scribner's Sons|Scribner]]
|
|-
|{{sortname|Andrew|Solomon}}
|data-sort-value="Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, The" |''[[The Noonday Demon|The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression]]''
|[[Charles Scribner's Sons|Scribner]]
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[2003 Pulitzer Prize|2003]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Samantha|Power}}'''
|data-sort-value="Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, A" |'''''[[A Problem from Hell|"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide]]'''''
|'''[[Basic Books]]'''
|
|-
|{{sortname|Ellen|Meloy}}
|data-sort-value="Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit, The" |''The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit''
|[[Pantheon Books|Pantheon]]
|
|-
|{{sortname|Steven|Pinker}}
|data-sort-value="Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, The" |''[[The Blank Slate|The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature]]''
|[[Viking Press|Viking]]
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[2004 Pulitzer Prize|2004]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Anne|Applebaum}}'''
|'''''[[Gulag: A History|Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps]]'''''
|'''[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]]'''
|
|-
|{{sortname|Steven|Nadler}}
|''Rembrandt's Jews''
|[[University of Chicago Press]]
|
|-
|{{sortname|Dana|Priest}}
|data-sort-value="Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military, The" |''The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military''
|[[W. W. Norton & Company|W. W. Norton]]
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[2005 Pulitzer Prize|2005]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Steve|Coll}}'''
|'''''[[Ghost Wars|Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001]]'''''
|'''[[Penguin Group|Penguin]]'''
|
|-
|{{sortname|Suketu|Mehta}}
|''[[Maximum City|Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found]]''
|[[Alfred A. Knopf|Knopf]]
|
|-
|{{sortname|Luis Alberto|Urrea}}
|data-sort-value="Devil's Highway: A True Story, The" |''The Devil's Highway: A True Story''
|[[Little, Brown and Company|Little]]
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[2006 Pulitzer Prize|2006]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Caroline|Elkins}}'''
|'''''[[Imperial Reckoning|Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya]]'''''
|'''[[Henry Holt and Company|Holt]]'''
|
|-
|{{sortname|Tony|Judt}}
|''[[Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945|Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945]]''
|[[Penguin Group|Penguin]]
|
|-
|{{sortname|George|Packer}}
|data-sort-value="Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, The" |''[[The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq]]''
|[[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]]
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[2007 Pulitzer Prize|2007]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Lawrence|Wright}}'''
|data-sort-value="Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, The" |'''''[[The Looming Tower|The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11]]'''''
|'''[[Alfred A. Knopf|Knopf]]'''
|
|-
|{{sortname|Pete|Earley}}
|''Crazy: A Father's Search through America's Mental Health Madness''
|[[G. P. Putnam's Sons|Putnam]]
|
|-
|{{sortname|Thomas E.|Ricks|dab=journalist}}
|''[[Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq]]''
|[[Penguin Group|Penguin]]
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[2008 Pulitzer Prize|2008]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Saul|Friedländer}}'''
|data-sort-value="Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945, The" |'''''[[The Years of Extermination|The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945]]'''''
|'''[[HarperCollins]]'''
|
|-
|{{sortname|Allan|Brandt|Allan M. Brandt}}
|data-sort-value="Cigarette Century, The" |''The Cigarette Century''
|[[Basic Books]]
|
|-
|{{sortname|Alex|Ross|dab=music critic}}
|data-sort-value="Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, The" |''[[The Rest Is Noise|The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century]]''
|[[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]]
|
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[2009 Pulitzer Prize|2009]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Douglas A.|Blackmon}}'''
|'''''[[Slavery by Another Name|Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II]]'''''
|'''[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]]'''
|'''"A precise and eloquent work that examines a deliberate system of racial suppression and that rescues a multitude of atrocities from virtual obscurity."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Arthur|Herman|Arthur L. Herman}}
|''Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age''
|[[Bantam Books]]
|"An authoritative, deeply researched book that achieves an extraordinary balance in weighing two mighty protagonists against each other."
|-
|{{sortname|William I.|Hitchcock}}
|data-sort-value="Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe, The" |''The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe''
|[[Free Press (publisher)|Free Press]]
|"A heavily documented exploration of the overlooked suffering of noncombatants in the victory over Nazi Germany, written with the dash of a novelist and the authority of a scholar."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[2010 Pulitzer Prize|2010]]'''
|'''{{sortname|David E.|Hoffman}}'''
|data-sort-value="Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy, The" |'''''[[The Dead Hand|The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy]]'''''
|'''[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]]'''
|'''"A well documented narrative that examines the terrifying doomsday competition between two superpowers and how weapons of mass destruction still imperil humankind."'''
|-
|{{sortname|John|Cassidy|dab=journalist}}
|''[[How Markets Fail|How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities]]''
|[[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]]
|"A work that probes the complexity of the Great Recession, using solid research and precise documentation to reveal not only a gripping human drama but also a tense clash of ideas."
|-
|{{sortname|Robert|Wright|dab=journalist}}
|data-sort-value="Evolution of God, The" |''[[The Evolution of God]]''
|[[Little, Brown and Company|Little]]
|"A sweeping look at the origins and development of religious belief throughout human history."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[2011 Pulitzer Prize|2011]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Siddhartha|Mukherjee}}'''
|data-sort-value="Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, The" |'''''[[The Emperor of All Maladies|The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer]]'''''
|'''[[Charles Scribner's Sons|Scribner]]'''
|'''"An elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal, into the long history of an insidious disease that, despite treatment breakthroughs, still bedevils medical science."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Nicholas G.|Carr}}
|data-sort-value="Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, The" |''[[The Shallows (book)|The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains]]''
|[[W. W. Norton & Company|W. W. Norton]]
|"A thought provoking exploration of the Internet's physical and cultural consequences, rendering highly technical material intelligible to the general reader."
|-
|{{sortname|S. C.|Gwynne}}
|''Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History''
|[[Charles Scribner's Sons|Scribner]]
|"A memorable examination of the longest and most brutal of all the wars between European settlers and a single Indian tribe."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[2012 Pulitzer Prize|2012]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Stephen|Greenblatt}}'''
|data-sort-value="Swerve: How the World Became Modern, The" |'''''[[The Swerve|The Swerve: How the World Became Modern]]'''''
|'''[[W. W. Norton & Company|W. W. Norton]]'''
|'''"A provocative book arguing that an obscure work of philosophy, discovered nearly 600 years ago, changed the course of history by anticipating the science and sensibilities of today."'''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/04/stephen-greenblatt-wins-pulitzer-prize |title=Stephen Greenblatt wins Pulitzer Prize |date=April 16, 2012}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|Diane|Ackerman}}
|''One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing''
|[[W. W. Norton & Company|W. W. Norton]]
|"A resilient author's account of caring for a stricken husband, sharing fears and insights as she explores neurology and ponders the gift of words."
|-
|{{sortname|Mara|Hvistendahl}}
|''Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men''
|[[PublicAffairs]]
|"An evocative, deeply researched book probing the causes and effects of a global imbalance in the gender ratio."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[2013 Pulitzer Prize|2013]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Gilbert|King|dab=author}}'''
|'''''[[Devil in the Grove|Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America]]'''''
|'''[[Harper (publisher)|Harper]]'''
|'''"A richly detailed chronicle of racial injustice in the Florida town of Groveland in 1949, involving four black men falsely accused of rape and drawing a civil rights crusader, and eventual Supreme Court justice, into the legal battle."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Katherine|Boo}}
|''[[Behind the Beautiful Forevers|Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity]]''
|[[Random House]]
|"An engrossing book that plunges the reader into an Indian slum in the shadow of gleaming hotels near Mumbai's airport, revealing a complex subculture where poverty does not extinguish aspiration."
|-
|{{sortname|David G.|Haskell}}
|data-sort-value="Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature, The" |''[[The Forest Unseen|The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature]]''
|[[Viking Press|Viking]]
|"A fascinating book that, for a year, closely follows the natural wonders occurring within a tiny patch of old-growth Tennessee forest."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[2014 Pulitzer Prize|2014]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Dan|Fagin}}'''
|'''''[[Toms River (book)|Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation]]'''''
|'''[[Bantam Books]]'''
|'''"A book that deftly combines investigative reporting and historical research to probe a New Jersey seashore town's cluster of childhood cancers linked to water and air pollution."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Gary J.|Bass}}
|data-sort-value="Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide, The" |''[[The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide]]''
|[[Alfred A. Knopf|Knopf]]
|"A disquieting exploration of the role played by the American president and his national security advisor in the 1971 Pakistani civil war, a bloodbath that killed hundreds of thousands and created millions of refugees."
|-
|{{sortname|Fred|Kaplan|dab=journalist}}
|''The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War''
|[[Simon & Schuster|Simon and Schuster]]
|"An engrossing look at how a tenacious general became the ringleader of efforts to reshape America's military strategy in the post-Cold War age."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[2015 Pulitzer Prize|2015]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Elizabeth|Kolbert}}'''
|data-sort-value="Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, The" |'''''[[The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History]]'''''
|'''[[Henry Holt and Company|Holt]]'''
|'''"An exploration of nature that forces readers to consider the threat posed by human behavior to a world of astonishing diversity."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Anand|Gopal}}
|''No Good Men among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes''
|[[Henry Holt and Company|Metropolitan Books]]
|"A remarkable work of nonfiction storytelling that exposes the cascade of blunders that doomed America's misbegotten intervention in Afghanistan."
|-
|{{sortname|Evan|Osnos}}
|''[[Age of Ambition|Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China]]''
|[[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]]
|"The story of a vast country and society in the grip of transformation, calmly surveyed, smartly reported and portrayed with exacting strokes."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[2016 Pulitzer Prize|2016]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Joby|Warrick}}'''
|'''''[[Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS]]'''''
|'''[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]]'''
|'''"A deeply reported book of remarkable clarity showing how the flawed rationale for the Iraq War led to the explosive growth of the Islamic State."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Ta-Nehisi|Coates}}
|''[[Between the World and Me]]''
|[[Spiegel & Grau|Spiegel and Grau]]
|"A powerful book that passionately and bleakly propounds the hazards faced by black men coming of age in America."
|-
|{{sortname|Carla|Power}}
|''If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran''
|[[Henry Holt and Company|Holt]]
|"A perceptive account of a year spent reading the Quran, displaying grace, subtlety and humane intellect as antidotes to rampant Islamophobia."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=4 scope="row" |'''[[2017 Pulitzer Prize|2017]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Matthew|Desmond}}'''
|'''''[[Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City]]'''''
|'''[[Crown Publishing Group|Crown]]'''
|'''"For a deeply researched exposé that showed how mass evictions after the 2008 economic crash were less a consequence than a cause of poverty."'''
|-
|{{sortname|John|Donvan}}
|rowspan=2 |''[[In a Different Key|In a Different Key: The Story of Autism]]''
|rowspan=2 |[[Crown Publishing Group|Crown]]
|rowspan=2 |"For a passionate work of advocacy that traces public perceptions about autism from chillingly cruel beginnings to a kinder but still troubling present."
|-
|{{sortname|Caren|Zucker}}
|-
|{{sortname|Micki|McElya}}
|data-sort-value="Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery, The" |''The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery''
|[[Harvard University Press]]
|"For a luminous investigation of how policies and practices at Arlington National Cemetery have mirrored the nation's fierce battles over race, politics, honor and loyalty."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[2018 Pulitzer Prize|2018]]'''
|'''{{sortname|James|Forman Jr.}}'''
|'''''[[Locking Up Our Own|Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America]]'''''
|'''[[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]]'''
|'''"An examination of the historical roots of contemporary criminal justice in the U.S., based on vast experience and deep knowledge of the legal system, and its often-devastating consequences for citizens and communities of color."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Suzy|Hansen}}
|''Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-America World''
|[[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]]
|"A brave and disturbing account of what it means to be an American in the world during the first decades of the 21st century."
|-
|{{sortname|Richard|Prum}}
|data-sort-value="Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World-And Us, The" |''[[The Evolution of Beauty|The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—and Us]]''
|[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]]
|"A fascinating, nuanced and compelling account of the potentially unsettling implications surrounding sexual selection."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[2019 Pulitzer Prize|2019]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Eliza|Griswold}}'''
|'''''[[Amity and Prosperity|Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America]]'''''
|'''[[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]]'''
|'''"A classic American story, grippingly told, of an Appalachian family struggling to retain its middle class status in the shadow of destruction wreaked by corporate fracking."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Elizabeth|Rush}}
|''Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore''
|[[Milkweed Editions]]
|"A rigorously reported story about American vulnerability to rising seas, particularly disenfranchised people with limited access to the tools of rebuilding."
|-
|{{sortname|Bernice|Yeung}}
|''In a Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence against America's Most Vulnerable Workers''
|[[The New Press|New Press]]
|"An unembellished series of case studies about sexual violence exacted on mostly immigrant women in America, many toiling in a shadow economy."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=5 scope="row" |'''[[2020 Pulitzer Prize|2020]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Anne|Boyer}}'''
|data-sort-value="Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care, The" |'''''[[The Undying (book)|The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care]]'''''
|'''[[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]]'''
|'''"An elegant and unforgettable narrative about the brutality of illness and the capitalism of cancer care in America."'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Greg|Grandin}}'''
|data-sort-value="End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, The" |'''''[[The End of the Myth|The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America]]'''''
|'''[[Henry Holt and Company|Metropolitan Books]]'''
|'''"A sweeping and beautifully written book that probes the American myth of boundless expansion and provides a compelling context for thinking about the current political moment."'''{{efn|Moved by the Pulitzer board from the [[Pulitzer Prize for History|History]] category.}}
|-
|{{sortname|Louise|Aronson}}
|''Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life''
|[[Bloomsbury Publishing|Bloomsbury]]
|"An empathetic and nuanced critique, informed by the author's decades of experience as a geriatrician, of the ways in which our society and healthcare system neglect, stereotype and mistreat the elderly."
|-
|{{sortname|Leslie|George}}
|rowspan=2 |''Solitary''
|rowspan=2 |[[Grove Atlantic]]
|rowspan=2 |"An unflinching indictment of Louisiana's most notorious prison and the racist criminal justice system as told through an innocent man's redemptive journey faced with a life sentence in solitary confinement."
|-
|{{sortname|Albert|Woodfox}}
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=4 scope="row" |'''[[2021 Pulitzer Prize|2021]]'''
|'''{{sortname|David|Zucchino}}'''
|'''''[[Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy]]'''''
|'''[[Grove Atlantic|Atlantic Monthly Press]]'''
|'''"A gripping account of the overthrow of the elected government of a Black-majority North Carolina city after Reconstruction that untangles a complicated set of power dynamics cutting across race, class and gender."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Sierra|Crane Murdoch}}
|''Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country''
|[[Random House]]
|"A richly-layered story with an imperfect yet memorable protagonist battling corruption, greed and intergenerational trauma when a fracking oil boom collides with reservation life in North Dakota."
|-
|rowspan=2 |{{sortname|Cathy Park|Hong}}
|rowspan=2 |''[[Minor Feelings|Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning]]''
|One World
|rowspan=2 |"A captivating and insightful essay collection that provides an emotional consideration of racial consciousness, compelling readers to interrogate their own ideas about our common humanity."
|-
|[[Random House]]
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=4 scope="row" |'''[[2022 Pulitzer Prize|2022]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Andrea|Elliott}}'''
|'''''[[Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City|Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City]]'''''
|'''[[Random House]]'''
|'''"An affecting, deeply reported account of a girl who comes of age during New York City's homeless crisis—a portrait of resilience amid institutional failure that successfully merges literary narrative with policy analysis."'''
|-
|rowspan=2 |{{sortname|Carla|Power}}
|rowspan=2 |''Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism''
|One World
|rowspan=2 |"An eye-opening global investigation into the deradicalization of violent extremists that impeccably balances empathy and skepticism."
|-
|[[Random House]]
|-
|{{sortname|Joshua|Prager|dab=writer}}
|''[[The Family Roe: An American Story]]''
|[[W. W. Norton & Company|W. W. Norton]]
|"A deeply reported account of Norma McCorvey, the Roe of ''Roe v. Wade'', and her family, which casts fresh light on the American judicial system's half century of struggle to reckon with abortion."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=5 scope="row" |'''[[2023 Pulitzer Prize|2023]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Toluse|Olorunnipa}}'''
|rowspan=2 |'''''[[His Name Is George Floyd|His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice]]'''''
|rowspan=2 |'''[[Viking Press|Viking]]'''
|rowspan=2 |'''"An intimate, riveting portrait of an ordinary man whose fatal encounter with police officers in 2020 sparked an international movement for social change, but whose humanity and complicated personal story were unknown."'''{{efn|Moved by the Pulitzer board from the [[Pulitzer Prize for Biography|Biography]] category.}}
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''{{sortname|Robert|Samuels|dab=journalist}}'''
|-
|{{sortname|David G.|Haskell}}
|''Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction''
|[[Viking Press|Viking]]
|"An insightful and revelatory work that scientifically reconsiders natural sound as a wonder of evolution, voicing concern that noisy human progress may return us to silence."
|-
|{{sortname|Jing|Tsu}}
|''[[Kingdom of Characters|Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern]]''
|[[Riverhead Books]]
|"A beguiling and original geopolitical account of how China's international prominence was made possible by the preservation and modernization of the Chinese language and the integration of Mandarin into global communication."
|-
|{{sortname|Linda|Villarosa}}
|''Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation''
|[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]]
|"A morally urgent and elegantly rendered work drawing on history, medical research and years of reporting to document how racism infects the American healthcare system, a call to action that also offers some solutions."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[2024 Pulitzer Prize|2024]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Nathan|Thrall}}'''
|'''''[[A Day in the Life of Abed Salama|A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy]]'''''
|'''[[Henry Holt and Company|Metropolitan Books]]'''
|'''"A finely reported and intimate account of life under Israeli occupation of the West Bank, told through a portrait of a Palestinian father whose five-year-old son dies in a fiery school bus crash when Israeli and Palestinian rescue teams are delayed by security regulations."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Siddharth|Kara}}
|''Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives''
|[[St. Martin's Press]]
|"A powerful examination of mining operations in the Southeastern Congo that reveals a global system of modern-day slavery, and the inhumane, often deadly working conditions for the men, women and children who extract the rare metal required for smartphones, computers and electric vehicles."
|-
|{{sortname|John|Vaillant}}
|''[[Fire Weather|Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World]]''
|[[Alfred A. Knopf|Knopf]]
|"An unsparing account of the rapacious Alberta Sands fire, fueled by an overheated atmosphere, dry forest and omnipresent petroleum products, that consumed the town of Fort McMurray at the heart of Canada's oil industry, which brings the global crisis of carbon emissions and climate change into urgent relief."
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
!rowspan=3 scope="row" |'''[[2025 Pulitzer Prize|2025]]'''
|'''{{sortname|Benjamin|Nathans}}'''
|'''''To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement'''''
|'''[[Princeton University Press]]'''
|'''"A prodigiously researched and revealing history of Soviet dissent, how it was repeatedly put down and came to life again, populated by a sprawling cast of courageous people dedicated to fighting for threatened freedoms and hard-earned rights."'''
|-
|{{sortname|Rachel|Nolan|dab=writer}}
|''Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala''
|[[Harvard University Press]]
|"A focused, extensively reported study of how, between 1977 and 2007, Guatemala became the second largest source of foreign adoptions in the world, a breeding ground for racism, greed and exploitation."
|-
|{{sortname|Rollo|Romig}}
|''[[I Am on the Hit List|I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist’s Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India]]''
|[[Penguin Group|Penguin]]
|"A captivating account of a crusading South Indian's murder, a mystery rich in local culture and politics that also connects to such global themes as authoritarianism, fundamentalism and other threats to free expression."
|}

==Notes==
{{noteslist}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==See also==
* [[Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography]]
* [[Pulitzer Prize for History]]

==External links==
{{Commons category|Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction winners}}
* [https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/223 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction official website]

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