# 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.

## 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 finalistas :
| 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 |
| 1969 | 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 |
| 1973 | 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 |
| 1980 | Sera M. Gilbert e Susan Gubar | The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer e the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination | Finalista |
| 1980 | 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 |
| 1981 | Maxine Hong Kingston | China Men | Finalista |
| 1981 | William Manchester | Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War | Finalista |
| 1981 | Marshall Frady | Southerners: A Journalist's Odyssey | Finalista |
| 1982 | Tracy Kidder | The Soul of a New Machine | Vencedor |
| 1982 | John McPhee | Basin e Range | Finalista |
| 1982 | Diana Trilling | Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor | Finalista |
| 1983 | Susan Sheehan | Is There No Place on Earth for Me? | Vencedor |
| 1983 | Diane Johnson | Terrorists e Novelists | Finalista |
| 1983 | Jonathan Schell | The Fate of the Earth | Finalista |
| 1984 | Paul Starr | The Social Transformation of American Medicine | Vencedor |
| 1984 | Winston Groom e Duncan Spencer | Conversations with the Enemy | Finalista |
| 1984 | Susan Jacoby | Wild Justice | Finalista |
| 1985 | Studs Terkel | The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two | Vencedor |
| 1985 | Donald Keene | Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era | Finalista |
| 1985 | 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 |
| 1986 | Joseph Lelyveld | Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black e White | Vencedor |
| 1986 | 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 |
| 1987 | Cyra McFadden | Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir | Finalista |
| 1987 | John McPhee | Rising from the Plains | Finalista |
| 1988 | Richard Rhodes | The Making of the Atomic Bomb | Vencedor |
| 1988 | James Gleick | Chaos: Making a New Science | Finalista |
| 1988 | 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 |
| 1989 | Timothy Ferris | Coming of Age in the Milky Way | Finalista |
| 1989 | McGeorge Bundy | Danger e Survival: Choices about the Bomb in the First Fifty Years | Finalista |
| 1989 | Howard Kohn | The Last Farmer | Finalista |
| 1990 | Dale Maharidge e Michael Williamson | E Their Children After Them | Vencedor |
| 1990 | David Fromkin | A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922 | Finalista |
| 1990 | Stephen Jay Gould | Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale e the Nature of History | Finalista |
| 1991 | Bert Hölldobler e Edward O. Wilson | The Ants | Vencedor |
| 1991 | John McPhee | Looking for a Ship | Finalista |
| 1991 | 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 |
| 1992 | Ere Dubus | Broken Vessels | Finalista |
| 1992 | 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 |
| 1993 | Susan Griffin | A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War | Finalista |
| 1993 | Richard Rodriguez | Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father | Finalista |
| 1993 | 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 |
| 1994 | Peter Gay | The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud | Finalista |
| 1994 | 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 |
| 1995 | Sherwin B. Nule | How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter | Finalista |
| 1995 | 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 |
| 1996 | Daniel C. Dennett | Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution e The Meanings of Life | Finalista |
| 1996 | 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 |
| 1997 | Cynthia Ozick | Fame e Folly | Finalista |
| 1997 | 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 |
| 1998 | Steven Pinker | How the Mind Works | Finalista |
| 1998 | Jon Krakauer | Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster | Finalista |
| 1999 | John McPhee | Annals of the Former World | Vencedor |
| 1999 | Elliott Currie | Crime e Punishment in America | Finalista |
| 1999 | 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 |
| 2000 | Scott Weidensaul | Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds | Finalista |
| 2000 | 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 |
| 2001 | Dave Eggers | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius | Finalista |
| 2001 | Ted Conover | Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing | Finalista |
| 2002 | Diane McWhorter | Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution | Vencedor |
| 2002 | Erew Solomon | The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression | Finalista |
| 2002 | 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 |
| 2003 | Ellen Meloy | The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Lescape, Art, e Spirit | Finalista |
| 2003 | Steven Pinker | The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature | Finalista |
| 2004 | Anne Applebaum | Gulag: A History | Vencedor |
| 2004 | Steven Nadler | Rembret's Jews | Finalista |
| 2004 | Dana Priest | The Mission: Waging War e Keeping Peace with America's Military | Finalista |
| 2005 | Steve Coll | Ghost Wars | Vencedor |
| 2005 | Suketu Mehta | Maximum City: Bombay Lost e Found | Finalista |
| 2005 | 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 |
| 2006 | Tony Judt | Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 | Finalista |
| 2006 | George Packer | The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq | Finalista |
| 2007 | Lawrence Wright | The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda e the Road to 9/11 | Vencedor |
| 2007 | Pete Earley | Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness | Finalista |
| 2007 | 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 |
| 2008 | Allan Bret | The Cigarette Century | Finalista |
| 2008 | 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 |
| 2009 | Arthur Herman | Gehi e Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire e Forged Our Age | Finalista |
| 2009 | 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 |
| 2010 | John Cassidy | How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities | Finalista |
| 2010 | Robert Wright | The Evolution of God | Finalista |
| 2011 | Siddhartha Mukherjee | The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer | Vencedor |
| 2011 | 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 |
| 2011 | 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 |
| 2012 | Diane Ackerman | One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, e the Language of Healing | Finalista |
| 2012 | 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 |
| 2013 | Katherine Boo | Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death e Hope in a Mumbai Undercity | Finalista |
| 2013 | 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 |
| 2014 | Gary J. Bass | The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, e a Forgotten Genocide | Finalista |
| 2014 | 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 |
| 2015 | Evan Osnos | Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, e Faith in the New China | Finalista |
| 2015 | 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 |
| 2016 | Ta-Nehisi Coates | Between the World e Me | Finalista |
| 2016 | 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 |
| 2017 | John Donvan e Caren Zucker | In a Different Key: The Story of Autism | Finalista |
| 2017 | 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 |
| 2018 | Suzy Hansen | Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-America World | Finalista |
| 2018 | 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 |
| 2019 | Bernice Yeung | In a Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers | Finalista |
| 2019 | 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 |
| 2020 | Anne Boyer | The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, e Care | Vencedor |
| 2020 | Louise Aronson | Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life | Finalista |
| 2020 | 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 |
| 2021 | Cathy Park Hong | Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning | Finalista |
| 2021 | 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 |
| 2022 | Carla Power | Home, Le, Security: Deradicalization e the Journey Back from Extremism | Finalista |
| 2022 | 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 |
| 2023 | Jing Tsu | Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern | Finalista |
| 2023 | David George Haskell | Sounds Wild e Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, e the Crisis of Sensory Extinction | Finalista |
| 2023 | 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 |
| 2024 | John Vaillant | Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World | Finalista |
| 2024 | 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