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| Theodore White, winner of the first Pulitzer for Non-Fiction, in 1962 |
Finalists have been announced in the Nonfiction category since 1980. These are indicated with an "F"; winners in the same years are designated with a "W."
Since its inception, not only has the prize for Nonfiction been given every year without fail, but three times--in 1969, 1973, and 1986--two prizes were awarded.
You can read more about some of the more recent winners and finalists at the Pulitzer site.
1962: The Making of the President, 1960 (Theodore White)
1963: The Guns of August (Barbara W. Tuchman)
1964: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (Richard Hofstadter)
1965: O Strange New World (Howard Mumford Jones)
1966: Wandering Through Winter (Edwin Way Teale)
1967: The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (David Brion Davis)
1968: Rousseau and Revolution, vol. 10 of The Story of Civilization, (Will and Ariel Durant.)
1969: So Human an Animal (Rene Jules Dubos) (two winners)
1969: The Armies of the Night (Norman Mailer) (two winners)
1970: Gandhi's Truth (Erik H. Erikson)
1971: The Rising Sun (John Toland)
1972: Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 (Barbara W. Tuchman)
1973: Children of Crisis, vols. 2 and 3, (Robert Coles) (two winners)
1973: Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (Frances FitzGerald) (two winners)
1974: The Denial of Death (Ernest Becker)
1975: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Annie Dillard)
1976: Why Survive? Being Old In America (Robert Neil Butler)
1977: Beautiful Swimmers (William W. Warner)
1978: The Dragons of Eden (Carl Sagan)
1979: On Human Nature (Edward O. Wilson)
1980: (F): The Madwoman in the Attic (Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar)
1980: (W) Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas Hofstadter)
1980: (F) The Medusa and the Snail (Lewis Thomas)
1981: (W) Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture (Carl E. Schorske)
1981: (F) China Men (Maxine Hong Kingston)
1981: (F) Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War (William Manchester)
1981: (F) Southerners: A Journalist's Odyssey (Marshall Frady)
1982: (W) The Soul of a New Machine (Tracy Kidder)
1982: (F) Basin and Range (John McPhee)
1982: (F) Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor (Diana Trilling)
1983: (W) Is There No Place on Earth for Me? (Susan Sheehan)
1983: (F) Terrorists and Novelists (Diane Johnson)
1983: (F) The Fate of the Earth (Jonathan Schell)
1984: (W) The Social Transformation of American Medicine (Paul Starr)
1984: (F) Conversations With the Enemy (Winston Groom and Duncan Spencer)
1984: (F) Endless Enemies (Jonathan Kwitny)
1985: (W) The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two (Studs Terkel)
1985: (F) Dawn to the West (Donald Keene)
1985: (F) Endless Enemies (Jonathan Kwitny)
1986: (W) Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White (Joseph Lelyveld) (two winners)
1986: (W) Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (J. Anthony Lukas) (two winners)
1986: (F) Habits and the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (Robert Neelly Bellah)
1987: (W) Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land (David K. Shipler)
1987: (F) Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir (Cyra McFadden)
1987: (F) Rising from the Plains (John McPhee)
1988: (W) The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Richard Rhodes)
1988: (F) Chaos: Making a New Science (James Gleick)
1988: (F) Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society (Daniel Callahan)
1989: (W) A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Neil Sheehan)
1989: (F) The Last Farmer (Howard Kohn)
1989: (F) Coming of Age in the Milky Way (Timothy Ferris)
1990: (W) And Their Children After Them (Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson)
1990: (F) A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East 1914-1922 (David Fromkin)
1990: (F) Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Stephen Jay Gould)
1991: (W) The Ants (Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson)
1991: (F) Looking for a Ship (John McPhee)
1991: (F) River of Traps: A Village Life (William duBuys and Alex Harris)
1992: (W) The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (Daniel Yergin)
1992: (F) Broken Vessels (Andre Dubus)
1992: (F) Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics (Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. Edsall)
1993: (W) Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America (Garry Wills)
1993: (F) A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War (Susan Griffin)
1993: (F) Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father (Richard Rodriguez)
1993: (F) Where the Buffalo Roam (Anne Matthews)
1994: (W) Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (David Remnick)
1994: (F) The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud (Peter Gay)
1994: (F) The End of the Twentieth Century: And the End of the Modern Age (John Lukacs)
1995: (W) The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Jonathan Weiner)
1995: (F) How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter (Sherwin B. Nuland)
1995: (F) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story (John Berendt)
1996: (W) The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism (Tina Rosenberg)
1996: (F) Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and The Meanings of Life (Daniel C. Dennett)
1996: (F) Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder (Lawrence Weschler)
1997: (W) Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris (Richard Kluger)
1997: (F) Fame and Folly (Cynthia Ozick)
1997: (F) The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond (Samuel G. Freedman)
1998: (W) Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Jared Diamond)
1998: (F) How the Mind Works (Steven Pinker)
1998: (F) Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Jon Krakauer)
1999: (W) Annals of the Former World (John McPhee)
1999: (F) Crime and Punishment in America (Elliott Currie)
1999: (F) The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do (Judith Rich Harris)
2000: (W) Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (John W. Dower)
2000: (F) Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds (Scott Weidensaul)
2000: (F) The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Brian Greene)
2001: (W) Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (Herbert P. Bix)
2001: (F) A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dave Eggers)
2001: (F) Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (Ted Conover)
2002: (W) Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution (Diane McWhorter)
2002: (F) The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (Andrew Solomon)
2002: (F) War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals (David Halberstam)
2003: (W) "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (Samantha Power)
2003: (F) The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit (Ellen Meloy)
2003: (F) The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Steven Pinker)
2004: (W) Gulag: A History (Anne Applebaum)
2004: (F) Rembrandt's Jews (Steven Nadler)
2004: (F) The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military (Dana Priest)
2005: (W) Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Steve Coll)
2005: (F) Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Suketu Mehta)
2005: (F) The Devil's Highway: A True Story (Luis Alberto Urrea)
2006: (W) Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya (Caroline Elkins)
2006: (F) Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Tony Judt)
2006: (F) The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq (George Packer)
2007: (W) The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Lawrence Wright)
2007: (F) Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness (Pete Earley)
2007: (F) Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Thomas E. Ricks)
2008: (W) The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 (Saul Friedlander)
2008: (F) The Cigarette Century (Allan M. Brandt)
2008: (F) The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Alex Ross)
2009: (W) Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
2009: (F) Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age (Arthur L. Herman)
2009: (F) The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe (William I. Hitchcock)
2010: (W) The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy (David E. Hoffman)
2010: (F) How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities (John Cassidy)
2010: (F) The Evolution of God (Robert Wright)
2011: (W) Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Siddhartha Mukherjee)
2011: (F) Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (S.C. Gwynne)
2011: (F) The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains (Nicholas G. Carr)
2012: (W) The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Stephen Greenblatt)
2012: (F) One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing (Diane Ackerman)
2012: (F) Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men (Mara Hvistendahl)
2013: (W) Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America (Gilbert King)
2013: (F) Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Katherine Boo)
2013: (F) The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature (David George Haskell)
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