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The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in show more New York City.

There are six categories in letters and drama:

Fiction – for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.

Drama – for a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life.

History – for a distinguished book on the history of the United States.

Biography or Autobiography – for a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author.
Poetry – for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author.
General Non-Fiction – for a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (627), Finalist (560), Nominee (8)
Categories:
All, Biography (28), Biography or Autobiography (172), Drama (163), Fiction (157), General Non-Fiction (158), History (202), Literature (2), Memoir or Autobiography (4), Music (71), Novel (27), Poetry (190), Reporting (1), Special Citation (10), Special Citation - Poetry (3), No Category (7)
Years:
All, 2023 (4), 2022 (3), 2021 (3), 2020 (4), 2019 (3), 2018 (3), 2017 (3), 2016 (3), 2015 (3), 2014 (3), 2013 (3), 2012 (3), 2011 (3), 2010 (3), 2009 (3), 2008 (3), 2007 (3), 2006 (3), 2005 (3), 2004 (3), 2003 (3), 2002 (3), 2001 (3), 2000 (3), 1999 (3), 1998 (3), 1997 (3), 1996 (3), 1995 (3), 1994 (3), 1993 (4), 1992 (3), 1991 (3), 1990 (3), 1989 (5), 1988 (3), 1987 (3), 1986 (3), 1985 (3), 1984 (3), 1983 (3), 1982 (3), 1981 (4), 1980 (3), 1979 (1), 1978 (1), 1977 (1), 1976 (1), 1975 (1), 1974 (1), 1973 (3), 1972 (1), 1971 (2), 1970 (1), 1969 (1), 1968 (1), 1967 (1), 1966 (1), 1965 (1), 1964 (1), 1962 (1)
Announced:
2024-05-06: Winner2024 Upcoming

Winner 68

WorkYear
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels2023
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott2022
Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino2021
The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care by Anne Boyer2020
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin2020
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold2019
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.2018
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond2017
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick2016
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert2015
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin2014
Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King2013
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt2012
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee2011
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman2010
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon2009
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedländer2008
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright2007
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins2006
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll2005
Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum2004
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power2003
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter2002
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix2001
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower2000
Annals of the Former World by John McPhee1999
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond1998
Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger1997
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg1996
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner1995
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick1994
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills1993
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin1992
River of Traps by William deBuys1991
The Ants by Bert Hölldobler1991
And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South by Dale Maharidge1990
A Bright Shining Lie I by Neil Sheehan1989
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan1989
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes1988
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David K. Shipler1987
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld1986
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas1986
The Good War: An Oral History of World War II by Studs Terkel1985
The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry by Paul Starr1984
Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan1983
The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder1982
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture by Carl E. Schorske1981
Gödel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter1980
On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson1979
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence by Carl Sagan1978
Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay by William W. Warner1977
Why Survive?: Being Old in America by Robert N. Butler1976
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard1975
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker1974
Migrants, sharecroppers, mountaineers by Robert Coles1973
The South goes North by Robert Coles1973
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances FitzGerald1973
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 by Barbara W. Tuchman1972
The Rising Sun: the Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945. by John Toland1971
The Rising Sun: the Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945. Volume 2 by John Toland1971
Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence by Erik H. Erikson1970
So Human an Animal by Rene Dubos1969
Rousseau and Revolution by Will Durant1968
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis1967
Wandering through Winter by Edwin Way Teale1966
O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones1965
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter1964
The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White1962

Finalist 90

WorkYear
Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction by David George Haskell2023
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu2023
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa2023
Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism by Carla Power2022
The Family Roe: An American Story by Joshua Prager2022
Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch2021
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong2021
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life by Louise Aronson2020
Solitary by Albert Woodfox2020
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush2019
In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers by Bernice Yeung2019
Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World by Suzy Hansen2018
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us by Richard O. Prum2018
In a Different Key: The Story of Autism by John Donvan2017
The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery by Micki McElya2017
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates2016
If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran by Carla Power2016
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes by Anand Gopal2015
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos2015
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass2014
The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War by Fred Kaplan2014
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo2013
The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature by David George Haskell2013
One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing by Diane Ackerman2012
Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men by Mara Hvistendahl2012
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr2011
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S. C. Gwynne2011
How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities by John Cassidy2010
The Evolution of God by Robert Wright2010
Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman2009
The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe by William I. Hitchcock2009
The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America by Allan M. Brandt2008
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross2008
Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness by Pete Earley2007
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks2007
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt2006
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer2006
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta2005
The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea2005
Rembrandt's Jews by Steven Nadler2004
The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military by Dana Priest2004
The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky by Ellen Meloy2003
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker2003
War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals by David Halberstam2002
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon2002
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover2001
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers2001
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene2000
Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds by Scott Weidensaul2000
Crime and Punishment in America by Elliott Currie1999
The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris1999
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer1998
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker1998
The Inheritance: How Three Families and the American Political Majority Moved from Left to Right by Samuel G. Freedman1997
Fame & Folly: Essays by Cynthia Ozick1997
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett1996
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology by Lawrence Weschler1996
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt1995
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland1995
The Cultivation of Hatred by Peter Gay1994
The Duel: The Eighty-Day Struggle Between Churchill and Hitler by John Lukacs1994
A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War by Susan Griffin1993
Where the Buffalo Roam: Restoring America's Great Plains by Anne Matthews1993
Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father by Richard Rodriguez1993
Broken Vessels: Essays by Andre Dubus1992
Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics by Thomas Byrne Edsall1992
Looking for a Ship by John McPhee1991
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin1990
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould1990
Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years by McGeorge Bundy1989
Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris1989
The Last Farmer: An American Memoir by Howard Kohn1989
Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society by Daniel Callahan1988
Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick1988
Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir by Cyra McFadden1987
Rising from the Plains by John McPhee1987
Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life by Robert N. Bellah1986
Endless Enemies by Jonathan Kwitny1985
1985
Conversations With the Enemy: The Story of PFC Robert Garwood by Winston Groom1984
Wild Justice : The Evolution of Revenge by Susan Jacoby1984
Terrorists & Novelists by Diane Johnson1983
The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell1983
Basin and Range by John McPhee1982
Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor by Diana Trilling1982
Southerners: A Journalist's Odyssey by Marshall Frady1981
China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston1981
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War by William Manchester1981
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert1980
The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas1980

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The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City.

There are six categories in letters and drama:

Fiction – for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.

Drama – for a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life.

History – for a distinguished book on the history of the United States.

Biography or Autobiography – for a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author.
Poetry – for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author.
General Non-Fiction – for a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category. (English, Member-written)
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by Hungarian-American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City. According to the administrators of the Pulitzer Prize the correct pronunciation of the name should sound like the verb pull, as in "Pull it, sir".

Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of these, each winner receives a certificate and a US$10,000 cash award. The winner in the public service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold medal, which always goes to a newspaper, although an individual may be named in the citation (Spanish, Member-written)

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