Prémio Pulitzer de Não Ficção Geral
O Prémio Pulitzer de Não Ficção Geral é um dos sete Prémios Pulitzer que são entregues anualmente nas áreas das Letras, Teatro e Música. Tem sido atribuído desde 1962 a um livro de não ficção significativo de um escritor Norte-americano, publicado durante o ano precedente, que não é ilegível para consideração noutra categoria.
Os finalistas tem sido anunciados desde 1980, geralmente dois para além do vencedor.[1]
Vencedores
Nos primeiros 52 anos até 2013, o Pulitzer de Não Ficção foi entregue 55 vezes; dois prémios foram atribuídos em 1969, 1973, e 1986. Duas pessoas venceram o prémio como co-autoras em 1968, 1990, e 1991.[1] Barbara Tuchman e E.O. Wilson venceram respectivamente dois prémios de Não Ficção.
| Ano | Autor(es) | Livro | Prêmio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | Theodore H. White | The Making of the President 1960 | Vencedor |
| 1963 | Barbara W. Tuchman | The Guns of August | Vencedor |
| 1964 | Richard Hofstadter | Anti-intellectualism in American Life | Vencedor |
| 1965 | Howard Mumford Jones | O Strange New World: American Culture: The Formative Years | Vencedor |
| 1966 | Edwin Way Teale | Weering Through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey Through the North American Winter | Vencedor |
| 1967 | David Brion Davis | The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture | Vencedor |
| 1968 | Will Durant e Ariel Durant | The Story of Civilization: Rousseau e Revolution | Vencedor |
| 1969 | René Jules Dubos | So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings e Events | Vencedor |
| Norman Mailer | The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History | Vencedor | |
| 1970 | Erik H. Erikson | Gehi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence | Vencedor |
| 1971 | John Tole | The Rising Sun: The Decline e Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945 | Vencedor |
| 1972 | Barbara W. Tuchman | Stilwell e the American Experience in China, 1911–45 | Vencedor |
| 1973 | Robert Coles | Children of Crisis, Volumes II e III | Vencedor |
| Frances FitzGerald | Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese e the Americans in Vietnam | Vencedor | |
| 1974 | Ernest Becker | The Denial of Death | Vencedor |
| 1975 | Annie Dillard | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | Vencedor |
| 1976 | Robert N. Butler | Why Survive? Being Old in America | Vencedor |
| 1977 | William W. Warner | Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs e the Chesapeake Bay | Vencedor |
| 1978 | Carl Sagan | The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence | Vencedor |
| 1979 | Edward O. Wilson | On Human Nature | Vencedor |
| 1980 | Douglas R. Hofstadter | Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid | Vencedor |
| Sera M. Gilbert e Susan Gubar | The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer e the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination | Finalista | |
| Lewis Thomas | The Medusa e the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher | Finalista | |
| 1981 | Carl E. Schorske | Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics e Culture | Vencedor |
| Maxine Hong Kingston | China Men | Finalista | |
| William Manchester | Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War | Finalista | |
| Marshall Frady | Southerners: A Journalist's Odyssey | Finalista | |
| 1982 | Tracy Kidder | The Soul of a New Machine | Vencedor |
| John McPhee | Basin e Range | Finalista | |
| Diana Trilling | Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor | Finalista | |
| 1983 | Susan Sheehan | Is There No Place on Earth for Me? | Vencedor |
| Diane Johnson | Terrorists e Novelists | Finalista | |
| Jonathan Schell | The Fate of the Earth | Finalista | |
| 1984 | Paul Starr | The Social Transformation of American Medicine | Vencedor |
| Winston Groom e Duncan Spencer | Conversations with the Enemy | Finalista | |
| Susan Jacoby | Wild Justice | Finalista | |
| 1985 | Studs Terkel | The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two | Vencedor |
| Donald Keene | Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era | Finalista | |
| Jonathan Kwitny | Endless Enemies: The Making of an Unfriendly World | Finalista | |
| 1986 | J. Anthony Lukas | Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families | Vencedor |
| Joseph Lelyveld | Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black e White | Vencedor | |
| Robert N. Bellah | Habits e the Heart: Individualism e Commitment in American Life | Finalista | |
| 1987 | David K. Shipler | Arab e Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Le | Vencedor |
| Cyra McFadden | Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir | Finalista | |
| John McPhee | Rising from the Plains | Finalista | |
| 1988 | Richard Rhodes | The Making of the Atomic Bomb | Vencedor |
| James Gleick | Chaos: Making a New Science | Finalista | |
| Daniel Callahan | Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society | Finalista | |
| 1989 | Neil Sheehan | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann e America in Vietnam | Vencedor |
| Timothy Ferris | Coming of Age in the Milky Way | Finalista | |
| McGeorge Bundy | Danger e Survival: Choices about the Bomb in the First Fifty Years | Finalista | |
| Howard Kohn | The Last Farmer | Finalista | |
| 1990 | Dale Maharidge e Michael Williamson | E Their Children After Them | Vencedor |
| David Fromkin | A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922 | Finalista | |
| Stephen Jay Gould | Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale e the Nature of History | Finalista | |
| 1991 | Bert Hölldobler e Edward O. Wilson | The Ants | Vencedor |
| John McPhee | Looking for a Ship | Finalista | |
| William duBuys e Alex Harris | River of Traps: A Village Life | Finalista | |
| 1992 | Daniel Yergin | The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, e Power | Vencedor |
| Ere Dubus | Broken Vessels | Finalista | |
| Thomas Byrne Edsall e Mary D. Edsall | Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, e Taxes on American Politics | Finalista | |
| 1993 | Garry Wills | Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America | Vencedor |
| Susan Griffin | A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War | Finalista | |
| Richard Rodriguez | Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father | Finalista | |
| Anne Matthews | Where the Buffalo Roam: Restoring America's Great Plains | Finalista | |
| 1994 | David Remnick | Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire | Vencedor |
| Peter Gay | The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud | Finalista | |
| John Lukacs | The End of the Twentieth Century: E the End of the Modern Age | Finalista | |
| 1995 | Jonathan Weiner | The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time | Vencedor |
| Sherwin B. Nule | How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter | Finalista | |
| John Berendt | Midnight in the Garden of Good e Evil: A Savannah Story | Finalista | |
| 1996 | Tina Rosenberg | The Haunted Le: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism | Vencedor |
| Daniel C. Dennett | Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution e The Meanings of Life | Finalista | |
| Lawrence Weschler | Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, e Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology | Finalista | |
| 1997 | Richard Kluger | Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, e the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris | Vencedor |
| Cynthia Ozick | Fame e Folly | Finalista | |
| Samuel G. Freedman | The Inheritance: How Three Families e America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan e Beyond | Finalista | |
| 1998 | Jared Diamond | Guns, Germs, e Steel: The Fates of Human Societies | Vencedor |
| Steven Pinker | How the Mind Works | Finalista | |
| Jon Krakauer | Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster | Finalista | |
| 1999 | John McPhee | Annals of the Former World | Vencedor |
| Elliott Currie | Crime e Punishment in America | Finalista | |
| Judith Rich Harris | The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do | Finalista | |
| 2000 | John W. Dower | Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II | Vencedor |
| Scott Weidensaul | Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds | Finalista | |
| Brian Greene | The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, e the Quest for the Ultimate Theory | Finalista | |
| 2001 | Herbert P. Bix | Hirohito e the Making of Modern Japan | Vencedor |
| Dave Eggers | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius | Finalista | |
| Ted Conover | Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing | Finalista | |
| 2002 | Diane McWhorter | Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution | Vencedor |
| Erew Solomon | The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression | Finalista | |
| David Halberstam | War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, e the Generals | Finalista | |
| 2003 | Samantha Power | "A Problem From Hell": America e the Age of Genocide | Vencedor |
| Ellen Meloy | The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Lescape, Art, e Spirit | Finalista | |
| Steven Pinker | The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature | Finalista | |
| 2004 | Anne Applebaum | Gulag: A History | Vencedor |
| Steven Nadler | Rembret's Jews | Finalista | |
| Dana Priest | The Mission: Waging War e Keeping Peace with America's Military | Finalista | |
| 2005 | Steve Coll | Ghost Wars | Vencedor |
| Suketu Mehta | Maximum City: Bombay Lost e Found | Finalista | |
| Luis Alberto Urrea | The Devil's Highway: A True Story | Finalista | |
| 2006 | Caroline Elkins | Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya | Vencedor |
| Tony Judt | Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 | Finalista | |
| George Packer | The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq | Finalista | |
| 2007 | Lawrence Wright | The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda e the Road to 9/11 | Vencedor |
| Pete Earley | Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness | Finalista | |
| Thomas E. Ricks | Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq | Finalista | |
| 2008 | Saul Friedländer | The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany e the Jews, 1939–1945 | Vencedor |
| Allan Bret | The Cigarette Century | Finalista | |
| Alex Ross | The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century | Finalista | |
| 2009 | Douglas A. Blackmon | Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II | Vencedor |
| Arthur Herman | Gehi e Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire e Forged Our Age | Finalista | |
| William I. Hitchcock | The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe | Finalista | |
| 2010 | David E. Hoffman | The Dead He: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race e Its Dangerous Legacy | Vencedor |
| John Cassidy | How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities | Finalista | |
| Robert Wright | The Evolution of God | Finalista | |
| 2011 | Siddhartha Mukherjee | The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer | Vencedor |
| S.C. Gwynne | Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker e the Rise e Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History | Finalista | |
| Nicholas G. Carr | The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains | Finalista | |
| 2012 | Stephen Greenblatt | The Swerve: How the World Became Modern | Vencedor |
| Diane Ackerman | One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, e the Language of Healing | Finalista | |
| Mara Hvistendahl | Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, e the Consequences of a World Full of Men | Finalista | |
| 2013 | Gilbert King | Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Grovele Boys, e the Dawn of a New America | Vencedor |
| Katherine Boo | Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death e Hope in a Mumbai Undercity | Finalista | |
| David George Haskell | The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature | Finalista | |
| 2014 | Dan Fagin | Toms River: A Story of Science e Salvation | Vencedor |
| Gary J. Bass | The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, e a Forgotten Genocide | Finalista | |
| Fred Kaplan | The Insurgents: David Petraeus e the Plot to Change the American Way of War | Finalista | |
| 2015 | Elizabeth Kolbert | The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History | Vencedor |
| Evan Osnos | Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, e Faith in the New China | Finalista | |
| Ane Gopal | No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, e the War Through Afghan Eyes | Finalista | |
| 2016 | Joby Warrick | Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS | Vencedor |
| Ta-Nehisi Coates | Between the World e Me | Finalista | |
| Carla Power | If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship e a Journey to the Heart of the Quran | Finalista | |
| 2017 | Matthew Desmond | Evicted: Poverty e Profit in the American City | Vencedor |
| John Donvan e Caren Zucker | In a Different Key: The Story of Autism | Finalista | |
| Micki McElya | The Politics of Mourning: Death e Honor in Arlington National Cemetery | Finalista | |
| 2018 | James Forman Jr. | Locking Up Our Own: Crime e Punishment in Black America | Vencedor |
| Suzy Hansen | Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-America World | Finalista | |
| Richard O. Prum | The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—E Us | Finalista | |
| 2019 | Eliza Griswold | Amity e Prosperity: One Family e the Fracturing of America | Vencedor |
| Bernice Yeung | In a Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers | Finalista | |
| Elizabeth Rush | Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore | Finalista | |
| 2020 | Greg Grein | The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America | Vencedor |
| Anne Boyer | The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, e Care | Vencedor | |
| Louise Aronson | Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life | Finalista | |
| Albert Woodfox with Leslie George | Solitary | Finalista | |
| 2021 | David Zucchino | Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 e the Rise of White Supremacy | Vencedor |
| Cathy Park Hong | Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning | Finalista | |
| Sierra Crane Murdoch | Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, e a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country | Finalista | |
| 2022 | Erea Elliott | Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City | Vencedor |
| Carla Power | Home, Le, Security: Deradicalization e the Journey Back from Extremism | Finalista | |
| Joshua Prager | The Family Roe: An American Story | Finalista | |
| 2023 | Robert Samuels e Toluse Olorunnipa | His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life e the Struggle for Racial Justice | Vencedor |
| Jing Tsu | Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern | Finalista | |
| David George Haskell | Sounds Wild e Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, e the Crisis of Sensory Extinction | Finalista | |
| Linda Villarosa | Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives e on the Health of Our Nation | Finalista | |
| 2024 | Nathan Thrall | A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy | Vencedor |
| John Vaillant | Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World | Finalista | |
| Siddharth Kara | Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives | Finalista |
Vencedores repetentes
Duas pessoas venceram o Prémio Pulitzer de Não Ficção Geral duas vezes.
- Barbara Tuchman, 1963 por The Guns of August e em 1972 por Stilwell and the American Experience in China
- E. O. Wilson, 1979 por On Human Nature e em 1991 por Ants, este último em co-autoria com Bert Hölldobler
Ver também
Referências
- ↑ a b "General Nonfiction".
- ↑ «General Nonfiction». Prémio Pulitzer. Consultado em 13 de agosto de 2024. Cópia arquivada em 23 de junho de 2024
