Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The prize was first awarded in 1962.
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Public
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Locking Up Our Own by 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 says: 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 by 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 says: 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 by 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 says: 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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Phil in SF says: 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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Phil in SF says: 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 by 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 says: 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 by 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 says: 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 by 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 says: 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
