Whittier Public Library

Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction
Book Title	Author	Date
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II	Douglas A. Blackmon	2009
The Years of Extermination	Saul Friedlander	2008
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11	Lawrence Wright	2007
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya	Caroline Elkins	2006
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001	Steve Coll	2005
Gulag: A History	Anne Applebaum	2004
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide	Samantha Power	2003
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution	Diane McWhorter	2002
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan	Herbert B. Pix	2001
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II	John W. Dower	2000
The Annals of the Former World	John McPhee	1999
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies	Jared Diamond	1998
Ashes to Ashes	Richard Kluger	1997
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism	Tina Rosenberg	1996
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time	Jonathan Weiner	1995
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire	David Remnick	1994
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America	Garry Wills	1993
Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power	Daniel Yergin	1992
Ants	Bert Holldobler	1991
And Their Children After Them	Michael Williamson	1990
A Bright Shining Lie	Michael Sheehan	1989
The Making of the Atomic Bomb	Richard Rhodes	1988
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land	David K. Shipler	1987
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families	Anthony Lukas	1986
The Good War: An Oral History of World War II	Studs Turkel	1985
The Social Transformation of American Medicine	Paul Starr	1984
Is There No Place on Earth for Me?	Susan Sheehan	1983
The Soul of a New Machine	Tracy Kidder	1982
Fin-de-siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture	Carl Schorske	1981
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid	Douglas R. Hofstadter	1980
On Human Nature	Edward Osborne Wilson	1979
Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence	Carl Sagan	1978
Beautiful Swimmers	William W. Warner	1977
Why Survive?: Being Old in America	Robert N. Butler	1976
Pilgrim At Tinker Creek	Annie Dillard	1975
The Denial of Death	Ernest Becker	1974
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam	Frances Fitzgerald	1973
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45	Barbara W. Tuchman	1972
The Rising Sun	John Toland	1971
Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence	Erik H. Erikson	1970
Armies of the Night: History As a Novel\the Novel As History	Norman Mailer	1969
Rousseau & Revolution Story of CIV Volume 10	Will Durant	1968
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture	David Brion Davis	1967
Wandering Through Winter	Edwin Way Teale	1966
O Strange New World	Howard M. Jones	1965
Anti-intellectualism in America	Douglas R. Hofstadter	1964
The Guns of August	Barbara W. Tuchman	1963
The Making of the President, 1960	Theodore H. White	1962