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The Pulitzer Prize 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.- 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 DurantAriel Durant born Chaya Kaufman ( May 10 1898- October 25 1981) was the co-author of The Story of Civilization''. Durant was born in Proskurov in Russia to Ethel Appel Kaufman and Joseph Kaufman. The family emigrated to the United States in 1901. She met.
- 1969See also 1968 in literature, other events of 1969, 1970 in literature, list of years in literature. Events The first Booker Prize is awarded; Penelope Ashe, author of bestselling novel, Naked Came the Stranger is found to be several people who each took a: The Armies Of The Night by Norman MailerCarl Van Vechten, 1948 Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923) is an American writer and innovator of the nonfictional novel. Life and work Norman Mailer was born in Long Branch, New Jersey. He was brought up in Brooklyn and began attending Harvard
- 1969: So Human An Animal by Rene Jules Dubos
- 1970See also 1969 in literature, other events of 1970, 1971 in literature, list of years in literature. Events Deliverance by American poet James Dickey published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th cen: Gandhi's Truth by Erik H. Erikson
- 1971See also 1970 in literature, other events of 1971, 1972 in literature, list of years in literature. Events The Destiny Waltz by Gerda Charles wins England's first Whitbread Novel of the Year Award. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner is published. New Book: The Rising Sun by John TolandJohn Toland is also the name of a British philosopher (d. 1722) who coined the term pantheism. John Willard Toland ( June 29, 1912 January 4, 2004) was an American author and historian. He is most well-known for his biography of Adolf Hitler, although he
- 1972See also 1971 in literature, other events of 1972, 1973 in literature, list of years in literature. Events New Books August 1914 Alexander Solzhenitsyn Captains and the Kings Taylor Caldwell Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Roald Dahl Die the Long Day: Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 by Barbara W. Tuchman
- 1973: Children of Crisis, Vols. II and III by Robert Coles
- 1973: Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances Fitzgerald
- 1974: The Denial of Death by 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: Gödel, 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
- 1986: 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 Hölldobler 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 (BooksEnthsiast.com) by Anne Applebaum
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