Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Winners, 2005–2026

Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Winners by Year

22 winners from 2005 to 2026, newest first.

Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction winners by year, most recent first.

Year	Winning work	Author	More information
2026	There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America	Brian Goldstone	Book details
2025	To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement	Benjamin Nathans	Book details
2024	A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy	Nathan Thrall	Book details
2023	His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice	Toluse Olorunnipa	Book details
2022	Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City	Andrea Elliott	Book details
2021	Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy	David Zucchino	Book details
2020	The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care	Anne Boyer	Book details
2019	Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America	Eliza Griswold	Book details
2018	Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America	James Forman Jr.	Book details
2017	Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City	Matthew Desmond	Book details
2016	Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS	Joby Warrick	Book details
2015	The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History	Elizabeth Kolbert	Book details
2014	Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation	Dan Fagin	Book details
2013	Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America	Gilbert King	Book details
2012	The Swerve: How the World Became Modern	Stephen Greenblatt	Book details
2011	The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer	Siddhartha Mukherjee	Book details
2010	The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy	David E. Hoffman	Book details
2009	Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II	Douglas A. Blackmon	Book details
2008	The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945	Saul Friedländer	Book details
2007	The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11	Lawrence Wright	Book details
2006	Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya	Caroline Elkins	Book details
2005	Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001	Steve Coll	Book details

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  2026There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

  by Brian Goldstone

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  2025To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement

  by Benjamin Nathans

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  2024A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

  by Nathan Thrall

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  2023His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

  by Toluse Olorunnipa

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  2022Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City

  by Andrea Elliott

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  2021Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy

  by David Zucchino

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  2020The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care

  by Anne Boyer

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  2019Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

  by Eliza Griswold

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  2018Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

  by James Forman Jr.

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  2017Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

  by Matthew Desmond

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  2016Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS

  by Joby Warrick

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  2015The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

  by Elizabeth Kolbert

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  2014Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation

  by Dan Fagin

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  2013Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

  by Gilbert King

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  2012The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

  by Stephen Greenblatt

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  2011The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

  by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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  2010The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy

  by David E. Hoffman

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  2009Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

  by Douglas A. Blackmon

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  2008The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945

  by Saul Friedländer

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  2007The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

  by Lawrence Wright

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  2006Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya

  by Caroline Elkins

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  2005Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

  by Steve Coll