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Pulitzer Prize Winners for General Non-Fiction
1960s
| 1962 | The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White |
| 1963 | The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman |
| 1964 | Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter |
| 1965 | O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones |
| 1966 | Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale |
| 1967 | The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis |
| 1968 | Rousseau And Revolution, The Tenth And Concluding Volume Of The Story Of Civilization by Will And Ariel Durant |
| 1969 | The Armies Of The Night by Norman Mailer
So Human An Animal by Rene Jules Dubos |
| 1970 | Gandhi's Truth by Erik H. Erikson |
| 1971 | The Rising Sun by John Toland |
| 1972 | Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 by Barbara W. Tuchman |
| 1973 | Children of Crisis, Vols. II and III by Robert Coles
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances Fitzgerald |
| 1974 | The Denial of Death by the late Ernest Becker |
| 1975 | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard |
| 1976 | Why Survive? Being Old In America by Robert N. Butler |
| 1977 | Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner |
| 1978 | The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan |
| 1979 | On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson |
| 1980 | Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter |
| 1981 | Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture by Carl E. Schorske |
| 1982 | The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder |
| 1983 | Is There No Place On Earth For Me? by Susan Sheehan |
| 1984 | The Social Transformation Of American Medicine by Paul Starr |
| 1985 | The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two by Studs Terkel |
| 1986 | Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas |
| 1987 | Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David K. Shipler |
| 1988 | The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes |
| 1989 | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan |
| 1990 | And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson |
| 1991 | The Ants by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson |
| 1992 | The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin |
| 1993 | Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills |
| 1994 | Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days Of The Soviet Empire by David Remnick |
| 1995 | The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time by Jonathan Weiner |
| 1996 | The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg |
| 1997 | Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger |
| 1998 | Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond |
| 1999 | Annals of the Former World by John McPhee |
| 2000 | Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower |
| 2001 | Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix |
| 2002 | Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter |
| 2003 | "A Problem From Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power |
| 2004 | Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum |
| 2005 | Ghost Wars by Steve Coll |
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