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Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

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The Pulitzer Prize is an United States award regarded as the highest national honor in newspaper journalism, literary achievements and musical composition....
for General Non-Fiction has been awarded since 1962 for a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category.

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1962
1962 in literature

The year 1962 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: The Making of the President, 1960
The Making of the President, 1960

The Making of the President, 1960 written by Theodore White and published by Atheneum Publishers in 1961, it won the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction....
by Theodore White
Theodore White

Theodore Harold White was an American political journalist, historian, and novelist, best known for his accounts of the United States presidential election, 1960, United States presidential election, 1964, United States presidential election, 1968, and United States presidential election, 1972 presidential elections....
1963
1963 in literature

The year 1963 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
1964
1964 in literature

The year 1964 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: Anti-intellectualism in American Life
Anti-intellectualism in American Life

Anti-intellectualism in American Life is a 1964 Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Richard Hofstadter. In this book, Hofstadter set out to trace the social movements that altered the role of Intelligence in Culture of the United States....
by Richard Hofstadter
Richard Hofstadter

Richard Hofstadter was an United States historian and DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. One of the leading public intellectuals of the 1950s, his works include The Age of Reform and Anti-intellectualism in American Life , both of which won the Pulitzer Prize?the former for History and the latter fo...
1965
1965 in literature

The year 1965 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: O Strange New World
O Strange New World

O Strange New World: American Culture-The Formative Years was written by Howard Mumford Jones and published by Viking Press in 1964; it won the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction....
by Howard Mumford Jones
Howard Mumford Jones

Howard Mumford Jones was a United States of America writer, literary critic, and professor of English literature at Harvard University.Jones was the book editor for The Boston Evening Transcript....
1966
1966 in literature

The year 1966 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: Wandering Through Winter
Wandering Through Winter

Wandering Through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey Through the North American Winter is a non-fiction book written by Edwin Way Teale, published in 1965 by Dodd, Mead and Company, and winner of the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction....
by Edwin Way Teale
Edwin Way Teale

Edwin Way Teale was an United States naturalist, photography, and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer. Teale's works serve as primary source material documenting environmental conditions across North America from 1930 - 1980....
1967
1967 in literature

The year 1967 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture

The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture written by David Brion Davis and published by Cornell University Press in 1966 won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1967....
by David Brion Davis
David Brion Davis

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. He is noted for his study of slavery and abolitionism.Davis served in the U.S Army 1st Armored Division in post World War II Germany from late 1945 to early 1946 as a member of the the United States Constabulary tasked with enforcing law and order on locals a...
1968
1968 in literature

The year 1968 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: Rousseau And Revolution, The Tenth Volume Of The Story of Civilization
The Story of Civilization

The Story of Civilization by Will Durant and Ariel Durant is an eleven-volume set of books. It was written over a lifetime, and it totals two million words across nearly 10,000 pages....
by Will
Will Durant

William James Durant was a prolific United States writer, historian, and philosopher. He is best known for the 11-volume The Story of Civilization, written in collaboration with his wife Ariel Durant and published between 1935 and 1975....
and Ariel Durant
Ariel Durant

Ariel Durant, born Chaya Kaufman, was the co-author of The Story of Civilization.Durant was born in Proskurov, to Ethel Appel Kaufman and Joseph Kaufman....
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1969
1969 in literature

The year 1969 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: So Human An Animal
So Human an Animal

So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and Events, is a book written by Ren? Dubos and published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1968. It won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction....
by Rene Jules Dubos
1969
1969 in literature

The year 1969 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer

Norman Kingsley Mailer was an United States novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and film director.Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S....
1970
1970 in literature

The year 1970 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: Gandhi's Truth
Gandhi's Truth

Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence, written by Erik Erikson and published by W. W. Norton & Company in 1969, it won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the 1970 National Book Award#Philosophy and Religion....
by Erik H. Erikson
1971
1971 in literature

The year 1971 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: The Rising Sun
The Rising Sun

The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945, written by John Toland and published by Random House in 1970, it won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction It was republished by Random in 2003....
by John Toland
John Toland (author)

John Willard Toland was an United States author and historian. He is best known for his biography of Adolf Hitler.Toland tried to write history as a straightforward narrative, with minimal analysis or judgment....
1972
1972 in literature

The year 1972 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45

Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 written by Barbara Tuchman and published in 1971 by Macmillan Publishers it won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction....
by Barbara W. Tuchman
1973
1973 in literature

The year 1973 in literature involved several significant events and the writing of many notable books....
: Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam, written by Frances FitzGerald and published by both Back Bay Publishing and Little, Brown and Company in 1972, in 1973 won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction., the National Book Award#Contemporary Affairs and the Bancroft Prize...
by Frances Fitzgerald
Frances FitzGerald

See also Frances Fitzgerald Frances FitzGerald is an United States journalist and author. She is primarily known for her acclaimed journalistic account of the Vietnam War....
1973
1973 in literature

The year 1973 in literature involved several significant events and the writing of many notable books....
: Children of Crisis, Vols. II and III
Children of Crisis

Children of Crisis is an award winning series of 5 volumes by child psychiatrist and author Robert Coles published by Little, Brown and Company between 1967 and 1977; a social study of children in the United States....
by Robert Coles
Robert Coles

Robert Coles is an United States author, child psychiatrist, and professor at Harvard University.Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he attended Milton Academy and Harvard College, where he studied English literature....
1974
1974 in literature

The year 1974 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: The Denial of Death
The Denial of Death

The Denial of Death is a psychology/philosophy work written by Ernest Becker and published in 1973. It was awarded the Pulitzer prize for general non-fiction in 1974, two months after the author's death....
by Ernest Becker
Ernest Becker

Dr. Ernest Becker was a cultural anthropology and interdisciplinary scientific thinker and writer.Becker was born into a Jewish family in Massachusetts....
1975
1975 in literature

The year 1975 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is a 1974 nonfiction narrative book by Annie Dillard. It won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1975.The book is about Dillard's experiences at Tinker Creek, which is located in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains....
by Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, best known for her narrative nonfiction. She has also published poetry, essays, literary criticism, autobiography, and fiction....
1976
1976 in literature

The year 1976 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: Why Survive? Being Old In America
Why Survive? Being Old in America

Why Survive? Being Old In America written by Robert Neil Butler and published by Harper & Row in 1975, it won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction....
by Robert Neil Butler
Robert Neil Butler

Robert Neil Butler is a physician, gerontologist, psychiatrist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, who was the first director of the National Institute on Aging....
1977
1977 in literature

The year 1977 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: Beautiful Swimmers
Beautiful Swimmers

Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay is a 1977 Pulitzer Prize winning non-fiction book by William W. Warner about the Chesapeake Bay, blue crabs and watermen....
by William W. Warner
William W. Warner

William W. Warner was an American biologist and writer.Warner was a 1943 graduate of Princeton University. During World War II, Warner served in the Pacific Theater of operations as an aerial photograph analyst with a United States Marine Corps air group....
1978
1978 in literature

The year 1978 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: The Dragons of Eden
The Dragons of Eden

The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence is a Pulitzer prize winning 1977 book by Carl Sagan. In it, he combines the fields of anthropology, evolutionary biology, psychology, and computer science to give a well balanced perspective of how human intelligence evolved....
by Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan

Carl Edward Sagan, Ph.D. was an United States astronomer, Astrochemistry, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences....
1979
1979 in literature

The year 1979 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: On Human Nature
On Human Nature

On Human Nature is a 1979 Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer prize-winning book by the Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson. The book tries to explain how different characteristics of humans and society can be explained from the point of evolution....
by Edward O. Wilson
1980
1980 in literature

The year 1980 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Gödel, Escher, Bach

G?del, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Douglas Hofstadter, described by the author as "a metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll"....
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
1981
1981 in literature

The year 1981 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture

Fin-de-Si?cle Vienna: Politics and Culture, written by American cultural historian Carl E. Schorske and published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1980, won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction....
by Carl E. Schorske
Carl E. Schorske

Carl Emil Schorske is an American cultural historian and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. In 1981 he won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book Fin-de-Si?cle Vienna: Politics and Culture , which remains highly significant to modern European intellectual history....
1982
1982 in literature

The year 1982 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: The Soul of a New Machine
The Soul of a New Machine

The Soul of a New Machine is a non-fiction book, written by Tracy Kidder. It was published in 1981 and won a Pulitzer Prize and an National Book Award....
by Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder

Tracy Kidder is an American author and Vietnam War veteran. Kidder may be best known, especially within the computing community, for his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Soul of a New Machine, an account of the development of Data General's Data_General_Eclipse minicomputer....
1983
1983 in literature

The year 1983 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: Is There No Place On Earth For Me?
Is There No Place On Earth For Me?

Is There No Place On Earth For Me? written by Susan Sheehan and published in 1982 by Houghton Mifflin, it won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction....
by Susan Sheehan
Susan Sheehan

Susan Sheehan , is a United States of America journalist.Born in Vienna, Austria, she won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1983 for her book Is There No Place On Earth For Me?....
1984
1984 in literature

The year 1984 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: The Social Transformation of American Medicine
The Social Transformation Of American Medicine

The Social Transformation of American Medicine is a book written by Paul Starr and published by Basic Books in 1982. It won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction as well as the Bancroft Prize....
by Paul Starr
Paul Starr

Paul Starr is a Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of sociology and Public administration at Princeton University. He is also the co-editor and co-founder of The American Prospect, a notable liberal magazine which was created in 1990....
1985
1985 in literature

The year 1985 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two by Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel

Louis "Studs" Terkel was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985, and is best remembered for his oral history of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago....
1986
1986 in literature

The year 1986 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas
J. Anthony Lukas

Jay Anthony Lukas, aka J. Anthony Lucas , was a Pulitzer Prize-winning United States journalist and author, probably best known for his 1985 book Common Ground , a classic study of race relations and school busing in Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, as seen through the eyes of three families: one upper-middle-class white, one...
1986
1986 in literature

The year 1986 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White

Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White, written by Joseph Lelyveld and published by Times Books in 1985, won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction as well as the 1986 List of Los Angeles Times Book Prize winners for Current Interest....
by Joseph Lelyveld
Joseph Lelyveld

Joseph Lelyveld was executive editor of the New York Times from 1994 to 2001, and interim executive editor in 2003 after the resignation of Howell Raines....
1987
1987 in literature

The year 1987 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, written by David K. Shipler and published by Times Books in 1986, won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction....
by David K. Shipler
David K. Shipler

David K. Shipler is an United States author who won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land....
1988
1988 in literature

The year 1988 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Making of the Atomic Bomb

The Making of the Atomic Bomb, a book written by Richard Rhodes, won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, a National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award....
by Richard Rhodes
Richard Rhodes

Richard Lee Rhodes is an American journalist, historian, and author of both fiction and non-fiction , including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb , and most recently, Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race ....
1989
1989 in literature

The year 1989 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
Neil Sheehan

Cornelius Mahoney "Neil" Sheehan is an United States journalist.As a reporter for The New York Times in 1971, Sheehan obtained the classified Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg....
1990
1990 in literature

The year 1990 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: And Their Children After Them
And Their Children After Them

And Their Children After Them , written by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson and published by Pantheon Books in 1989, won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction....
by Dale Maharidge
Dale Maharidge

Dale Maharidge is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist best known for his collaborations with photographer Michael Williamson .Maharidge and Williamson's book And Their Children After Them won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1990....
and Michael Williamson
1991
1991 in literature

The year 1991 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: The Ants
The Ants

The Ants is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book, written in 1990, by E. O. Wilson and Bert H?lldobler. It was a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1991....
by Bert Hölldobler
Bert Hölldobler

Bert H?lldobler is a Germany myrmecologist who is a co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his work on The Ants with Edward O. Wilson. In 1990, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research....
and Edward O. Wilson
1992
1992 in literature

The year 1992 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power is Daniel Yergin's 800-page history of the global oil industry from the 1850s through 1990....
by Daniel Yergin
Daniel Yergin

Daniel H. Yergin is an American author, speaker, and economic researcher. Yergin is the co-founder and chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, an energy research consultancy....
1993
1993 in literature

The year 1993 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America written by Garry Wills and published by Simon & Schuster in 1992, won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism....
by Garry Wills
Garry Wills

Garry Wills is an author, journalist, and historian specializing in politics, ideology, and Roman Catholicism. Between 1961 and 2008 inclusive, he has written nearly 40 books....
1994
1994 in literature

The year 1994 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire is a bestselling work by David Remnick. Often cited as an example of New Journalism, it won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1994....
by David Remnick
David Remnick

David Remnick is an United States journalist, writer, and magazine editing. As a reporter for the The Washington Post, he also served as the paper's Moscow correspondent....
1995
1995 in literature

The year 1995 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: The Beak of the Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time
The Beak of the Finch

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time winner of the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. this book on evolutionary biology written for the layperson by Jonathan Weiner in 1994....
by Jonathan Weiner
Jonathan Weiner

Jonathan Weiner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of non-fiction books on his biology observations, in particular evolution in the Gal?pagos Islands, genetics, and the environment....
1996
1996 in literature

The year 1996 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism

The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism written by Tina Rosenberg and published by Random House in 1995, won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the 1995 National Book Award...
by Tina Rosenberg
Tina Rosenberg

Tina Rosenberg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism and author. She frequently writes for The New York Times MagazineIn 1987 she won a MacArthur Fellowship, which she used to move to South America....
1997
1997 in literature

The year 1997 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger
Richard Kluger

Richard Kluger worked as a journalist before becoming an accomplished Pulitzer Prize-winning author and book publisher....
1998
1998 in literature

The year 1998 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at University of California, Los Angeles....
by Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond

Jared Mason Diamond is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeography, lecturer, and nonfiction author. Diamond works as a professor of geography and physiology at University of California, Los Angeles....
1999
1999 in literature

The year 1999 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: Annals of the Former World
Annals of the Former World

Annals of the Former World is a book on geology written by John McPhee and published in 1998 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. ...
by John McPhee
John McPhee

John Angus McPhee is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer widely considered one of the pioneers of narrative nonfiction. Unlike Tom Wolfe and Hunter Thompson, who helped kick-start the "new journalism" which, in the 1960s, revolutionized nonfiction, McPhee produced a gentler style of literary journalism by incorporating techniques from novels a...
2000
2000 in literature

The year 2000 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II is a history book written by John W. Dower and published by W. W. Norton & Company in 1999. The book covers the Occupation of Japan by the Allies of World War II between August 1945 and April 1952, delving into topics such as Douglas MacArthur's administration, the International Military T...
by John W. Dower
John W. Dower

John W . Dower is an United States author, professor, and historian; his primary focus is modern Japan and U.S.-Japan relations. He is perhaps best known for his book, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Letters for General Nonfiction, the National Book Award in Nonfiction, the Bancroft Pr...
2001
2001 in literature

The year 2001 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan is a book by Herbert P. Bix on Emperor Hirohito, emperor of Japan from December 25, 1926 until his death on January 7, 1989, won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, ...
by Herbert P. Bix
Herbert P. Bix

Herbert P. Bix is the author of Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, an acclaimed account of the Japanese Emperor and the events which shaped modern Japanese imperialism....
2002
2002 in literature

The year 2002 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution

Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution, written by Diane McWhorter and published by Simon & Schuster in 2001, won the J....
by Diane McWhorter
Diane McWhorter

Rebecca Diane McWhorter is an American journalist and commentator who has written extensively about race and the history of civil rights. She is the author of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction-winning Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution and A Dream of Freedom, a young adult...
2003
2003 in literature

The year 2003 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
Samantha Power

Samantha Power is an Irish American journalist, writer, academic, and government official. She is currently affiliated with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government....
2004
2004 in literature

The year 2004 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: Gulag: A History
Gulag: A History

Gulag: A History, also published as Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps, is a non-fiction book covering the history of the Soviet Union Gulag system....
by Anne Applebaum
Anne Applebaum

Anne Elizabeth Applebaum is a journalism and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has written extensively about Marxism-Leninism and the development of civil society in Central Europe and Eastern Europe....
2005
2005 in literature

The year 2005 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll
Steve Coll

Steve Coll is a Pulitzer Prize-winning United States journalist and writer. Coll is currently president and CEO of the New America Foundation. Prior to assuming that post on September 17, 2007, Coll was a staff writer for The New Yorker, and served as managing editor of The Washington Post from 1998 to 2004....
2006
2006 in literature

The year 2006 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
: Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya

Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya written by Caroline Elkins, published by Henry Holt and Company, won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction....
by Caroline Elkins
Caroline Elkins

Caroline Elkins is an associate professor of History at Harvard University. She studies the colonial encounter in Africa during the twentieth century....
2007
2007 in literature

The year 2007 in literature involves some significant new books....
: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
The Looming Tower

The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 is a historical look at the way in which Al-Qaeda came into being, the background for various terrorist attacks and how they were investigated, and the events that led to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States....
by Lawrence Wright
Lawrence Wright

Lawrence Wright, born August 2, 1947, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, screenwriter, staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, and fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law....
2008
2008 in literature

Events*None at present...
: The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander

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