Prémio Pulitzer de Não Ficção Geral

O Prémio Pulitzer de Não Ficção Geral é um dos sete Prémios Pulitzer que são entregues anualmente nas áreas das Letras, Teatro e Música. Tem sido atribuído desde 1962 a um livro de não ficção significativo de um escritor Norte-americano, publicado durante o ano precedente, que não é ilegível para consideração noutra categoria.

Os finalistas tem sido anunciados desde 1980, geralmente dois para além do vencedor.^[1]

Vencedores

Nos primeiros 52 anos até 2013, o Pulitzer de Não Ficção foi entregue 55 vezes; dois prémios foram atribuídos em 1969, 1973, e 1986. Duas pessoas venceram o prémio como co-autoras em 1968, 1990, e 1991.^[1] Barbara Tuchman e E.O. Wilson venceram respectivamente dois prémios de Não Ficção.

Vencedores e finalistas^[2]

Ano	Autor(es)	Livro	Prêmio
1962	Theodore H. White	The Making of the President 1960	Vencedor
1963	Barbara W. Tuchman	The Guns of August	Vencedor
1964	Richard Hofstadter	Anti-intellectualism in American Life	Vencedor
1965	Howard Mumford Jones	O Strange New World: American Culture: The Formative Years	Vencedor
1966	Edwin Way Teale	Weering Through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey Through the North American Winter	Vencedor
1967	David Brion Davis	The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture	Vencedor
1968	Will Durant e Ariel Durant	The Story of Civilization: Rousseau e Revolution	Vencedor
1969	René Jules Dubos	So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings e Events	Vencedor
	Norman Mailer	The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History	Vencedor
1970	Erik H. Erikson	Gehi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence	Vencedor
1971	John Tole	The Rising Sun: The Decline e Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945	Vencedor
1972	Barbara W. Tuchman	Stilwell e the American Experience in China, 1911–45	Vencedor
1973	Robert Coles	Children of Crisis, Volumes II e III	Vencedor
	Frances FitzGerald	Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese e the Americans in Vietnam	Vencedor
1974	Ernest Becker	The Denial of Death	Vencedor
1975	Annie Dillard	Pilgrim at Tinker Creek	Vencedor
1976	Robert N. Butler	Why Survive? Being Old in America	Vencedor
1977	William W. Warner	Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs e the Chesapeake Bay	Vencedor
1978	Carl Sagan	The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence	Vencedor
1979	Edward O. Wilson	On Human Nature	Vencedor
1980	Douglas R. Hofstadter	Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid	Vencedor
	Sera M. Gilbert e Susan Gubar	The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer e the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination	Finalista
	Lewis Thomas	The Medusa e the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher	Finalista
1981	Carl E. Schorske	Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics e Culture	Vencedor
	Maxine Hong Kingston	China Men	Finalista
	William Manchester	Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War	Finalista
	Marshall Frady	Southerners: A Journalist's Odyssey	Finalista
1982	Tracy Kidder	The Soul of a New Machine	Vencedor
	John McPhee	Basin e Range	Finalista
	Diana Trilling	Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor	Finalista
1983	Susan Sheehan	Is There No Place on Earth for Me?	Vencedor
	Diane Johnson	Terrorists e Novelists	Finalista
	Jonathan Schell	The Fate of the Earth	Finalista
1984	Paul Starr	The Social Transformation of American Medicine	Vencedor
	Winston Groom e Duncan Spencer	Conversations with the Enemy	Finalista
	Susan Jacoby	Wild Justice	Finalista
1985	Studs Terkel	The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two	Vencedor
	Donald Keene	Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era	Finalista
	Jonathan Kwitny	Endless Enemies: The Making of an Unfriendly World	Finalista
1986	J. Anthony Lukas	Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families	Vencedor
	Joseph Lelyveld	Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black e White	Vencedor
	Robert N. Bellah	Habits e the Heart: Individualism e Commitment in American Life	Finalista
1987	David K. Shipler	Arab e Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Le	Vencedor
	Cyra McFadden	Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir	Finalista
	John McPhee	Rising from the Plains	Finalista
1988	Richard Rhodes	The Making of the Atomic Bomb	Vencedor
	James Gleick	Chaos: Making a New Science	Finalista
	Daniel Callahan	Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society	Finalista
1989	Neil Sheehan	A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann e America in Vietnam	Vencedor
	Timothy Ferris	Coming of Age in the Milky Way	Finalista
	McGeorge Bundy	Danger e Survival: Choices about the Bomb in the First Fifty Years	Finalista
	Howard Kohn	The Last Farmer	Finalista
1990	Dale Maharidge e Michael Williamson	E Their Children After Them	Vencedor
	David Fromkin	A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922	Finalista
	Stephen Jay Gould	Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale e the Nature of History	Finalista
1991	Bert Hölldobler e Edward O. Wilson	The Ants	Vencedor
	John McPhee	Looking for a Ship	Finalista
	William duBuys e Alex Harris	River of Traps: A Village Life	Finalista
1992	Daniel Yergin	The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, e Power	Vencedor
	Ere Dubus	Broken Vessels	Finalista
	Thomas Byrne Edsall e Mary D. Edsall	Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, e Taxes on American Politics	Finalista
1993	Garry Wills	Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America	Vencedor
	Susan Griffin	A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War	Finalista
	Richard Rodriguez	Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father	Finalista
	Anne Matthews	Where the Buffalo Roam: Restoring America's Great Plains	Finalista
1994	David Remnick	Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire	Vencedor
	Peter Gay	The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud	Finalista
	John Lukacs	The End of the Twentieth Century: E the End of the Modern Age	Finalista
1995	Jonathan Weiner	The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time	Vencedor
	Sherwin B. Nule	How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter	Finalista
	John Berendt	Midnight in the Garden of Good e Evil: A Savannah Story	Finalista
1996	Tina Rosenberg	The Haunted Le: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism	Vencedor
	Daniel C. Dennett	Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution e The Meanings of Life	Finalista
	Lawrence Weschler	Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, e Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology	Finalista
1997	Richard Kluger	Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, e the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris	Vencedor
	Cynthia Ozick	Fame e Folly	Finalista
	Samuel G. Freedman	The Inheritance: How Three Families e America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan e Beyond	Finalista
1998	Jared Diamond	Guns, Germs, e Steel: The Fates of Human Societies	Vencedor
	Steven Pinker	How the Mind Works	Finalista
	Jon Krakauer	Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster	Finalista
1999	John McPhee	Annals of the Former World	Vencedor
	Elliott Currie	Crime e Punishment in America	Finalista
	Judith Rich Harris	The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do	Finalista
2000	John W. Dower	Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II	Vencedor
	Scott Weidensaul	Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds	Finalista
	Brian Greene	The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, e the Quest for the Ultimate Theory	Finalista
2001	Herbert P. Bix	Hirohito e the Making of Modern Japan	Vencedor
	Dave Eggers	A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius	Finalista
	Ted Conover	Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing	Finalista
2002	Diane McWhorter	Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution	Vencedor
	Erew Solomon	The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression	Finalista
	David Halberstam	War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, e the Generals	Finalista
2003	Samantha Power	"A Problem From Hell": America e the Age of Genocide	Vencedor
	Ellen Meloy	The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Lescape, Art, e Spirit	Finalista
	Steven Pinker	The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature	Finalista
2004	Anne Applebaum	Gulag: A History	Vencedor
	Steven Nadler	Rembret's Jews	Finalista
	Dana Priest	The Mission: Waging War e Keeping Peace with America's Military	Finalista
2005	Steve Coll	Ghost Wars	Vencedor
	Suketu Mehta	Maximum City: Bombay Lost e Found	Finalista
	Luis Alberto Urrea	The Devil's Highway: A True Story	Finalista
2006	Caroline Elkins	Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya	Vencedor
	Tony Judt	Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945	Finalista
	George Packer	The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq	Finalista
2007	Lawrence Wright	The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda e the Road to 9/11	Vencedor
	Pete Earley	Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness	Finalista
	Thomas E. Ricks	Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq	Finalista
2008	Saul Friedländer	The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany e the Jews, 1939–1945	Vencedor
	Allan Bret	The Cigarette Century	Finalista
	Alex Ross	The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century	Finalista
2009	Douglas A. Blackmon	Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II	Vencedor
	Arthur Herman	Gehi e Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire e Forged Our Age	Finalista
	William I. Hitchcock	The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe	Finalista
2010	David E. Hoffman	The Dead He: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race e Its Dangerous Legacy	Vencedor
	John Cassidy	How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities	Finalista
	Robert Wright	The Evolution of God	Finalista
2011	Siddhartha Mukherjee	The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer	Vencedor
	S.C. Gwynne	Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker e the Rise e Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History	Finalista
	Nicholas G. Carr	The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains	Finalista
2012	Stephen Greenblatt	The Swerve: How the World Became Modern	Vencedor
	Diane Ackerman	One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, e the Language of Healing	Finalista
	Mara Hvistendahl	Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, e the Consequences of a World Full of Men	Finalista
2013	Gilbert King	Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Grovele Boys, e the Dawn of a New America	Vencedor
	Katherine Boo	Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death e Hope in a Mumbai Undercity	Finalista
	David George Haskell	The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature	Finalista
2014	Dan Fagin	Toms River: A Story of Science e Salvation	Vencedor
	Gary J. Bass	The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, e a Forgotten Genocide	Finalista
	Fred Kaplan	The Insurgents: David Petraeus e the Plot to Change the American Way of War	Finalista
2015	Elizabeth Kolbert	The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History	Vencedor
	Evan Osnos	Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, e Faith in the New China	Finalista
	Ane Gopal	No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, e the War Through Afghan Eyes	Finalista
2016	Joby Warrick	Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS	Vencedor
	Ta-Nehisi Coates	Between the World e Me	Finalista
	Carla Power	If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship e a Journey to the Heart of the Quran	Finalista
2017	Matthew Desmond	Evicted: Poverty e Profit in the American City	Vencedor
	John Donvan e Caren Zucker	In a Different Key: The Story of Autism	Finalista
	Micki McElya	The Politics of Mourning: Death e Honor in Arlington National Cemetery	Finalista
2018	James Forman Jr.	Locking Up Our Own: Crime e Punishment in Black America	Vencedor
	Suzy Hansen	Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-America World	Finalista
	Richard O. Prum	The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—E Us	Finalista
2019	Eliza Griswold	Amity e Prosperity: One Family e the Fracturing of America	Vencedor
	Bernice Yeung	In a Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers	Finalista
	Elizabeth Rush	Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore	Finalista
2020	Greg Grein	The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America	Vencedor
	Anne Boyer	The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, e Care	Vencedor
	Louise Aronson	Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life	Finalista
	Albert Woodfox with Leslie George	Solitary	Finalista
2021	David Zucchino	Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 e the Rise of White Supremacy	Vencedor
	Cathy Park Hong	Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning	Finalista
	Sierra Crane Murdoch	Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, e a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country	Finalista
2022	Erea Elliott	Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City	Vencedor
	Carla Power	Home, Le, Security: Deradicalization e the Journey Back from Extremism	Finalista
	Joshua Prager	The Family Roe: An American Story	Finalista
2023	Robert Samuels e Toluse Olorunnipa	His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life e the Struggle for Racial Justice	Vencedor
	Jing Tsu	Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern	Finalista
	David George Haskell	Sounds Wild e Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, e the Crisis of Sensory Extinction	Finalista
	Linda Villarosa	Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives e on the Health of Our Nation	Finalista
2024	Nathan Thrall	A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy	Vencedor
	John Vaillant	Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World	Finalista
	Siddharth Kara	Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives	Finalista

Vencedores repetentes

Duas pessoas venceram o Prémio Pulitzer de Não Ficção Geral duas vezes.

• Barbara Tuchman, 1963 por The Guns of August e em 1972 por Stilwell and the American Experience in China
• E. O. Wilson, 1979 por On Human Nature e em 1991 por Ants, este último em co-autoria com Bert Hölldobler

Ver também

• Prémio Pulitzer de Biografia ou Autobiografia
• Prémio Pulitzer de História