Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Public

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Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The prize was first awarded in 1962.

  1. Annals of the Former World by 

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    The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years

    Twenty years …

  2. Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by 

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    "Shortly after midnight on Friday, June 16, 1978, Sylvia Frumkin decided to take a bath. Miss Frumkin, a heavy, ungainly …

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    1983 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

  3. The Social Transformation Of American Medicine by 

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    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the …

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    1984 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

  4. "The Good War" by 

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    "The Good War" is Studs Terkel's most exciting, most popular, and most moving book, an account of the lives of …

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    1985 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

  5. Common Ground by 

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    1968-a time of unprecedented social activism, a time when new political responsibilities and intense personal dedication seemed to presage real …

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    1986 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

  6. Arab and Jew by 

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    In this monumental work, David K. Shipler, award-winning correspondent for The New York Times, examines the intricate relation ships and …

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    1987 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

  7. The Making of the Atomic Bomb by 

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    The Making of the Atomic Bomb is brilliant history, a book that can be compared in its sweep and importance …

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    1988 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

  8. A Bright Shining Lie by 

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    A Bright Shining Lie-sixteen years in the making is a monumental account of Vietnam by a prizewinning journalist who was …

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    1989 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

  9. And Their Children After Them by ,

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    In And Their Children After Them, the writer/photographer team Dale Maharidge and Michael S. Williamson return to the land and …

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    1990 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

  10. The Ants by ,

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    This landmark work, the distillation of a lifetime of research by the world’s leading myrmecologists, is a thoroughgoing survey of …

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    1991 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

  11. The Prize by 

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    Is the grand tradition of epic storytelling. The Prize tells the panoramic history of oil and the struggle for wealth …

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    1992 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

  12. Lincoln at Gettysburg by 

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    The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked …

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    1993 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

  13. Lenin's Tomb by 

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    From the editor of The New Yorker: a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become …

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    1994 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

  14. The Beak Of The Finch by 

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    Jonathan Weiner's The Beak of the Finch tells the story of two Princeton University students - evolutionary biologists - engaged …

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    1995 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

  15. The Haunted Land by 

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    The Haunted Land is a luminous, ground-breaking look at how four newly democratic eastern European nations are dealing with the …

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    1996 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

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