Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The prize was first awarded in 1962.
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Devil in the Grove von Gilbert King
Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark …
Phil in SF sagt: 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction. 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.
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Toms River von Dan Fagin
The riveting true story of sixty years in the life of a small town ravaged by industrial pollution, Toms River …
Phil in SF sagt: 2014 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction. 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.
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Phil in SF sagt: 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction. An exploration of nature that forces readers to consider the threat posed by human behavior to a world of astonishing diversity.
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In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first …
Phil in SF sagt: 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction. 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.
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From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the …
Phil in SF sagt: 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction. For a deeply researched exposé that showed how mass evictions after the 2008 economic crash were less a consequence than a cause of poverty.
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Locking Up Our Own von James Forman
In recent years, America’s criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent debate. Critics have assailed the …
Phil in SF sagt: 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction. 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.
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Amity and Prosperity von Eliza Griswold
In Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom’s impact on …
Phil in SF sagt: 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction. 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.
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The End of the Myth von Greg Grandin
From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion …
Phil in SF sagt: 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction. 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. (Moved by the Board from the History category.)
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A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For …
Phil in SF sagt: 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction. An elegant and unforgettable narrative about the brutality of illness and the capitalism of cancer care in America.
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Wilmington's Lie von David Zucchino
From Pulitzer Prize winner, David Zucchino, comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot and coup of 1898, an extraordinary …
Phil in SF sagt: 2021 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction. 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.
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Invisible Child von Andrea Elliott
In Invisible Child, Pulitzer Prize winner Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose …
Phil in SF sagt: 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction. 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.
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His Name Is George Floyd von Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa
The events of that day are now tragically familiar: on May 25, 2020, George Floyd became the latest Black person …
Phil in SF sagt: 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction. 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. (Moved by the Board from the Bio
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Day in the Life of Abed Salama von Nathan Thrall
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Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, …
Phil in SF sagt: 2024 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction. 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 b
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause von Benjamin Nathans
Beginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was unexpectedly confronted by a dissident movement that captured the world’s imagination. Demanding …
Phil in SF sagt: 2025 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction. 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.
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Annals of the Former World von John McPhee
The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years
Twenty years …
