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."General Nonfiction"
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. Barbara Tuchman e E.O. Wilson venceram respectivamente dois prémios de Não Ficção.
Vencedores e finalistasAnoAutor(es)LivroPrêmio1962Theodore H. WhiteThe Making of the President 1960 1963Barbara W. TuchmanThe Guns of August 1964Richard HofstadterAnti-intellectualism in American Life 1965Howard Mumford JonesO Strange New World: American Culture: The Formative Years 1966Edwin Way TealeWeering Through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey Through the North American Winter 1967David Brion DavisThe Problem of Slavery in Western Culture 1968Will Durant e Ariel DurantThe Story of Civilization: Rousseau e Revolution 1969René Jules DubosSo Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings e Events Norman MailerThe Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History 1970Erik H. EriksonGehi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence 1971John ToleThe Rising Sun: The Decline e Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945 1972Barbara W. TuchmanStilwell e the American Experience in China, 1911–45 1973Robert ColesChildren of Crisis, Volumes II e III Frances FitzGeraldFire in the Lake: The Vietnamese e the Americans in Vietnam 1974Ernest BeckerThe Denial of Death 1975Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek 1976Robert N. ButlerWhy Survive? Being Old in America 1977William W. WarnerBeautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs e the Chesapeake Bay 1978Carl SaganThe Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence 1979Edward O. WilsonOn Human Nature 1980Douglas R. HofstadterGödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid Sera M. Gilbert e Susan GubarThe Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer e the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination Lewis ThomasThe Medusa e the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher 1981Carl E. SchorskeFin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics e Culture Maxine Hong KingstonChina Men William ManchesterGoodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War Marshall FradySoutherners: A Journalist's Odyssey 1982Tracy KidderThe Soul of a New Machine John McPheeBasin e Range Diana TrillingMrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor 1983Susan SheehanIs There No Place on Earth for Me? Diane JohnsonTerrorists e Novelists Jonathan SchellThe Fate of the Earth 1984Paul StarrThe Social Transformation of American Medicine Winston Groom e Duncan SpencerConversations with the Enemy Susan JacobyWild Justice 1985Studs TerkelThe Good War: An Oral History of World War Two Donald KeeneDawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era Jonathan KwitnyEndless Enemies: The Making of an Unfriendly World 1986J. Anthony LukasCommon Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families Joseph LelyveldMove Your Shadow: South Africa, Black e White Robert N. BellahHabits e the Heart: Individualism e Commitment in American Life 1987David K. ShiplerArab e Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Le Cyra McFaddenRain or Shine: A Family Memoir John McPheeRising from the Plains 1988Richard RhodesThe Making of the Atomic Bomb James GleickChaos: Making a New Science Daniel CallahanSetting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society 1989Neil SheehanA Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann e America in Vietnam Timothy Ferris Coming of Age in the Milky Way McGeorge BundyDanger e Survival: Choices about the Bomb in the First Fifty Years Howard KohnThe Last Farmer 1990Dale Maharidge e Michael WilliamsonE Their Children After Them David FromkinA Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922 Stephen Jay GouldWonderful Life: The Burgess Shale e the Nature of History 1991Bert Hölldobler e Edward O. WilsonThe Ants John McPheeLooking for a Ship William duBuys e Alex Harris River of Traps: A Village Life 1992Daniel YerginThe Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, e Power Ere DubusBroken Vessels Thomas Byrne Edsall e Mary D. EdsallChain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, e Taxes on American Politics 1993Garry WillsLincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America Susan GriffinA Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War Richard RodriguezDays of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father Anne MatthewsWhere the Buffalo Roam: Restoring America's Great Plains 1994David RemnickLenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire Peter GayThe Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud John LukacsThe End of the Twentieth Century: E the End of the Modern Age 1995Jonathan WeinerThe Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time Sherwin B. NuleHow We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter John BerendtMidnight in the Garden of Good e Evil: A Savannah Story 1996Tina RosenbergThe Haunted Le: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism Daniel C. DennettDarwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution e The Meanings of Life Lawrence WeschlerMr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, e Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology 1997Richard KlugerAshes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, e the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris Cynthia OzickFame e Folly Samuel G. FreedmanThe Inheritance: How Three Families e America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan e Beyond 1998Jared DiamondGuns, Germs, e Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Steven PinkerHow the Mind Works Jon KrakauerInto Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster 1999John McPheeAnnals of the Former World Elliott CurrieCrime e Punishment in America Judith Rich HarrisThe Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do 2000John W. DowerEmbracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II Scott WeidensaulLiving on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds Brian GreeneThe Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, e the Quest for the Ultimate Theory 2001Herbert P. BixHirohito e the Making of Modern Japan Dave EggersA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Ted ConoverNewjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2002Diane McWhorterCarry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution Erew SolomonThe Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression David HalberstamWar in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, e the Generals 2003Samantha Power"A Problem From Hell": America e the Age of Genocide Ellen MeloyThe Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Lescape, Art, e Spirit Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature 2004Anne ApplebaumGulag: A History Steven NadlerRembret's Jews Dana PriestThe Mission: Waging War e Keeping Peace with America's Military 2005Steve CollGhost Wars Suketu MehtaMaximum City: Bombay Lost e Found Luis Alberto UrreaThe Devil's Highway: A True Story 2006Caroline ElkinsImperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya Tony JudtPostwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 George PackerThe Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq 2007Lawrence WrightThe Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda e the Road to 9/11 Pete EarleyCrazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness Thomas E. RicksFiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq 2008Saul FriedländerThe Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany e the Jews, 1939–1945 Allan BretThe Cigarette Century Alex RossThe Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century 2009Douglas A. BlackmonSlavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II Arthur Herman Gehi e Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire e Forged Our Age William I. HitchcockThe Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe 2010David E. HoffmanThe Dead He: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race e Its Dangerous Legacy John CassidyHow Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities Robert WrightThe Evolution of God 2011Siddhartha MukherjeeThe Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer S.C. GwynneEmpire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker e the Rise e Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History Nicholas G. CarrThe Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains 2012Stephen GreenblattThe Swerve: How the World Became Modern Diane AckermanOne Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, e the Language of Healing Mara HvistendahlUnnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, e the Consequences of a World Full of Men 2013Gilbert KingDevil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Grovele Boys, e the Dawn of a New America Katherine BooBehind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death e Hope in a Mumbai Undercity David George HaskellThe Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature 2014Dan FaginToms River: A Story of Science e Salvation Gary J. BassThe Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, e a Forgotten Genocide Fred KaplanThe Insurgents: David Petraeus e the Plot to Change the American Way of War 2015Elizabeth KolbertThe Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Evan OsnosAge of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, e Faith in the New China Ane GopalNo Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, e the War Through Afghan Eyes 2016Joby WarrickBlack Flags: The Rise of ISIS Ta-Nehisi CoatesBetween the World e Me Carla PowerIf the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship e a Journey to the Heart of the Quran 2017Matthew DesmondEvicted: Poverty e Profit in the American City John Donvan e Caren ZuckerIn a Different Key: The Story of Autism Micki McElyaThe Politics of Mourning: Death e Honor in Arlington National Cemetery 2018James Forman Jr.Locking Up Our Own: Crime e Punishment in Black America Suzy HansenNotes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-America World Richard O. PrumThe Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—E Us 2019Eliza GriswoldAmity e Prosperity: One Family e the Fracturing of America Bernice YeungIn a Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers Elizabeth RushRising: Dispatches from the New American Shore 2020Greg GreinThe End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America Anne BoyerThe Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, e Care Louise AronsonElderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life Albert Woodfox with Leslie GeorgeSolitary 2021David ZucchinoWilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 e the Rise of White Supremacy Cathy Park HongMinor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning Sierra Crane MurdochYellow Bird: Oil, Murder, e a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country 2022Erea ElliottInvisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City Carla PowerHome, Le, Security: Deradicalization e the Journey Back from Extremism Joshua PragerThe Family Roe: An American Story 2023Robert Samuels e Toluse OlorunnipaHis Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life e the Struggle for Racial Justice Jing TsuKingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern David George HaskellSounds Wild e Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, e the Crisis of Sensory Extinction Linda VillarosaUnder the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives e on the Health of Our Nation 2024Nathan ThrallA Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy John VaillantFire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World Siddharth KaraCobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Vencedores repetentes Duas pessoas venceram o Prémio Pulitzer de Não Ficção Geral duas vezes.