Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

• 1962 Theodore H. White - The Making of the President 1960
• 1963 Barbara W. Tuchman - The Guns of August
• 1964 Richard Hofstadter - Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
• 1965 Howard Mumford Jones - O Strange New World
• 1966 Edwin Way Teale - Wandering Through Winter
• 1967 David Brion Davis - The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
• 1968 Will And Ariel Durant - Rousseau And Revolution, The Tenth And Concluding Volume Of The Story Of Civilization
• 1969 Norman Mailer - The Armies Of The Night
• 1969 Rene Jules Dubos - So Human An Animal
• 1970 Erik H. Erikson - Gandhi's Truth
• 1971 John Toland - The Rising Sun
• 1972 Barbara W. Tuchman - Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945
• 1973 Robert Coles - Children of Crisis, Vols. II and III
• 1973 Frances Fitzgerald - Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
• 1974 the late Ernest Becker - The Denial of Death
• 1975 Annie Dillard - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
• 1976 Robert N. Butler - Why Survive? Being Old In America
• 1977 William W. Warner - Beautiful Swimmers
• 1978 Carl Sagan - The Dragons of Eden
• 1979 Edward O. Wilson - On Human Nature
• 1980 Douglas R. Hofstadter - Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
• 1981 Carl E. Schorske - Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture
• 1982 Tracy Kidder - The Soul of A New Machine
• 1983 Susan Sheehan - Is There No Place On Earth For Me?
• 1984 Paul Starr - The Social Transformation Of American Medicine
• 1985 Studs Terkel - The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two
• 1986 Joseph Lelyveld - Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
• 1986 J. Anthony Lukas - Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
• 1987 David K. Shipler - Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
• 1988 Richard Rhodes - The Making of the Atomic Bomb
• 1989 Neil Sheehan - A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
• 1990 Dale Maharidge, Michael Williamson - And Their Children After Them
• 1991 Bert Holldobler, Edward O. Wilson - The Ants
• 1992 Daniel Yergin - The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & Power
• 1993 Garry Wills - Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
• 1994 David Remnick - Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days Of The Soviet Empire
• 1995 Jonathan Weiner - The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time
• 1996 Tina Rosenberg - The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
• 1997 Richard Kluger - Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris
• 1998 Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
• 1999 John McPhee - Annals of the Former World
• 2000 John W. Dower - Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
• 2001 Herbert P. Bix - Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
• 2002 Diane McWhorter - Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution