Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction — Complete Winners List

15 years of winners · Pulitzer Prize Board, Columbia University · Since 1962 · ← Back to award page


2025	To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement	Benjamin Nathans	Princeton University Press
2024	A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy	Nathan Thrall	Metropolitan Books
2023	His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice	Robert Samuels	Viking
2022	Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City	Andrea Elliott	Random House
2021	Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy	David Zucchino	Atlantic Monthly Press
2020	The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America	Greg Grandin	Metropolitan Books
2019	Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America	Eliza Griswold	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2018	Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America	James Forman Jr.	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2017	Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City	Matthew Desmond	Crown
2016	Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS	Joby Warrick	Doubleday
2015	The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History	Elizabeth Kolbert	Henry Holt and Company
2014	Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation	Dan Fagin	Bantam Books
2013	Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America	Gilbert King	Harper
2012	The Swerve: How the World Became Modern	Stephen Greenblatt	W. W. Norton & Company
2011	The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer	Siddhartha Mukherjee	Scribner