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Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction

Index Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction

The Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. [1]

276 relations: A Bright Shining Lie, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, A Peace to End All Peace, A Problem from Hell, Age of Ambition, Alex Ross (music critic), Allan M. Brandt, Anand Gopal, And Their Children After Them, Andre Dubus, Andrew Solomon, Annals of the Former World, Anne Applebaum, Anne Matthews, Annie Dillard, Anti-intellectualism in American Life, Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, Ariel Durant, Arthur L. Herman, Ashes to Ashes (book), Barbara W. Tuchman, Beautiful Swimmers, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Bert Hölldobler, Between the World and Me, Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS, Brian Greene, Carl Emil Schorske, Carl Sagan, Caroline Elkins, Carry Me Home (book), Chaos: Making a New Science, Children of Crisis, China Men, Common Ground (book), Cynthia Ozick, Cyra McFadden, Dale Maharidge, Dan Fagin, Dana Priest, Daniel Callahan, Daniel Dennett, Daniel Yergin, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Dave Eggers, David Brion Davis, David E. Hoffman, David Fromkin, David G. Haskell, David Halberstam, ..., David K. Shipler, David Remnick, Devil in the Grove, Diana Trilling, Diane Ackerman, Diane Johnson, Diane McWhorter, Douglas A. Blackmon, Douglas Hofstadter, E. O. Wilson, Edwin Way Teale, Elizabeth Kolbert, Ellen Meloy, Embracing Defeat, Erik Erikson, Ernest Becker, Evan Osnos, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Fiasco (book), Fin-de-siècle Vienna, Fire in the Lake, Frances FitzGerald (journalist), Fred Kaplan (journalist), Gandhi's Truth, Garry Wills, Gödel, Escher, Bach, George Packer, Ghost Wars, Gilbert King (author), Gulag: A History, Guns, Germs, and Steel, Herbert P. Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities, How the Mind Works, Howard Mumford Jones, Imperial Reckoning, In a Different Key, Into Thin Air, Is There No Place on Earth for Me?, J. Anthony Lukas, James Forman Jr., James Gleick, Jared Diamond, Joby Warrick, John Berendt, John Cassidy (journalist), John Donvan, John Lukacs, John McPhee, John Toland (author), John W. Dower, Jon Krakauer, Jonathan Kwitny, Jonathan Schell, Jonathan Weiner, Joseph Lelyveld, Judith Rich Harris, Katherine Boo, Lawrence Weschler, Lawrence Wright, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, Lewis Thomas, Lincoln at Gettysburg, Luís Alberto Urrea, Mara Hvistendahl, Marshall Frady, Matthew Desmond, Maximum City, Maxine Hong Kingston, Michael Williamson (photographer), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Move Your Shadow, Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, Neil Sheehan, Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, Nicholas G. 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Nuland, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Slavery by Another Name, So Human an Animal, Stephen Greenblatt, Stephen Jay Gould, Steve Coll, Steven Nadler, Steven Pinker, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45, Studs Terkel, Suketu Mehta, Susan Griffin, Susan Gubar, Susan Jacoby, Susan Sheehan, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ted Conover, The Ants, The Armies of the Night, The Beak of the Finch, The Blank Slate, The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide, The Dead Hand, The Denial of Death, The Dragons of Eden, The Elegant Universe, The Emperor of All Maladies, The Evolution of God, The Fate of the Earth, The Forest Unseen, The Good War, The Guns of August, The Haunted Land, The Looming Tower, The Madwoman in the Attic, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, The Making of the President, 1960, The Noonday Demon, The Nurture Assumption, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, The Rising Sun, The Shallows (book), The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, The Social Transformation of American Medicine, The Soul of a New Machine, The Story of Civilization, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, The Years of Extermination, Theodore H. 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A Bright Shining Lie

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1988) is a book by Neil Sheehan, a former New York Times reporter, about retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann and the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War.

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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is a memoir by Dave Eggers released in 2000.

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A Peace to End All Peace

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (also subtitled Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914–1922) is a 1989 history book written by Pulitzer Prize finalist David Fromkin, which describes the events leading to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire during World War I, and the drastic changes that took place in the Middle East as a result, which he claims led to a new world war that's still going on today.

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A Problem from Hell

"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide is a book by Samantha Power, at that time Professor of Human Rights Practice at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, which explores America's understanding of, response to, and inaction on genocides in the 20th century from the Armenian genocide to the "ethnic cleansings" of the Kosovo War.

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Age of Ambition

Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China is a non-fiction book by Evan Osnos, a staff writer at The New Yorker.

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Alex Ross (music critic)

Alex Ross (born 1968) is an American music critic.

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Allan M. Brandt

Allan Morris Brandt (born 1953) is a historian of medicine and the Amalie Kass Professor of History of Medicine and Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.

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Anand Gopal

Anand Gopal is a journalist and author of No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban and the War Through Afghan Eyes, which describes the travails of three Afghans caught in the war on terror.

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And Their Children After Them

And Their Children After Them, written by Dale Maharidge, photographed by Michael Williamson, and published by Pantheon Books in 1989, won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

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Andre Dubus

Andre Jules Dubus II (August 11, 1936 – February 24, 1999) was an American short story writer and essayist.

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Andrew Solomon

Andrew Solomon (born October 30, 1963) is a writer on politics, culture and psychology, who lives in New York City and London.

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Annals of the Former World

Annals of the Former World is a book on geology written by John McPhee and published in 1998 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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Anne Applebaum

Anne Elizabeth Applebaum (born July 25, 1964) is an American-Polish journalist and Pulitzer Prize–winning author who has written extensively about communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Anne Matthews

Anne Matthews is a college lecturer and author of articles and books with environmental and academic themes.

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Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard (born April 30, 1945) is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction.

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Anti-intellectualism in American Life

Anti-intellectualism in American Life is a book by Richard Hofstadter published in 1963 that won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

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Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, written by David K. Shipler and published by Times Books in 1986, won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

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Ariel Durant

Ariel Durant (10 May 1898 – 25 October 1981) was a Russian-born American researcher and writer and the coauthor of The Story of Civilization with her husband Will Durant.

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Arthur L. Herman

Arthur L. Herman (born 1956) is an American popular historian, currently serving as a senior fellow at Hudson Institute.

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Ashes to Ashes (book)

Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris, written by Richard Kluger and published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1996, won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

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Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American historian and author.

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Beautiful Swimmers

Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay (1976) is a Pulitzer Prize non-fiction book by William W. Warner about the Chesapeake Bay, blue crabs and watermen.

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Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity is a non-fiction book written by the Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo in 2012.

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Bert Hölldobler

Bert Hölldobler (born 25 June 1936) is a German sociobiologist and evolutionary biologist who studies evolution and social organization in ants.

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Between the World and Me

Between the World and Me is a 2015 book written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by Spiegel & Grau.

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Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS

Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS is a 2015 non-fiction book by the American journalist Joby Warrick.

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Brian Greene

Brian Randolph Greene (born February 9, 1963) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician, and string theorist.

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Carl Emil Schorske

Carl Emil Schorske (March 15, 1915 – September 13, 2015), known professionally as Charles E. Schorske, was an American cultural historian and professor emeritus at Princeton University.

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Carl Sagan

Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences.

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Caroline Elkins

Caroline Elkins (born 1969) is a professor of history and African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and the founding director of Harvard's Center for African Studies.

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Carry Me Home (book)

Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution, written by Diane McWhorter and published by Simon & Schuster in 2001, won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

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Chaos: Making a New Science

Chaos: Making a New Science is a debut non-fiction book by James Gleick that initially introduced the principles and early development of the chaos theory to the public.

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Children of Crisis

Children of Crisis is a social study of children in the United States written by child psychiatrist Robert Coles and published in five volumes by Little, Brown and Company between 1967 and 1977.

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China Men

China Men is a 1980 collection of "stories" by Maxine Hong Kingston, some true and some fictional.

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Common Ground (book)

Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families is a nonfiction book by J. Anthony Lukas, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1985, that examines race relations in Boston, Massachusetts through the prism of desegregation busing.

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Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Shoshana Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist.

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Cyra McFadden

Cyra McFadden (born 1937) is an American writer, who lives on a houseboat in Sausalito, California.

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Dale Maharidge

Dale Maharidge (born 24 October 1956) is an American author, journalist and academic best known for his collaborations with photographer Michael Williamson.

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Dan Fagin

Dan Fagin is an American journalist who specializes in environmental science.

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Dana Priest

Dana Louise Priest (born May 23, 1957) is an American journalist, writer and teacher.

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Daniel Callahan

Daniel Callahan (born July 19, 1930) is an American philosopher who played a leading role in developing the field of biomedical ethics as co-founder of The Hastings Center, the world's first bioethics research institute.

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Daniel Dennett

Daniel Clement Dennett III (born March 28, 1942) is an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.

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Daniel Yergin

Daniel Howard Yergin (born February 6, 1947) is an American author, speaker, energy expert, and economic historian.

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Darwin's Dangerous Idea

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life is a 1995 book by Daniel Dennett, in which the author looks at some of the repercussions of Darwinian theory.

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Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher.

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David Brion Davis

David Brion Davis (born February 16, 1927) is an American intellectual and cultural historian, and a leading authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world.

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David E. Hoffman

David Emanuel Hoffman is an American writer and journalist, a contributing editor to The Washington Post.

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David Fromkin

David Henry Fromkin (August 27, 1932 June 11, 2017) was an American author, lawyer, and historian, best known for his historical account on the Middle East, A Peace to End All Peace (1989), in which he recounts the role European powers played between 1914 and 1922 in creating the modern Middle East.

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David G. Haskell

David George Haskell is a British-born American biologist, author, and professor of biology at Sewanee: The University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee.

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David Halberstam

David Halberstam (April 10, 1934April 23, 2007) was an American journalist and historian, known for his work on the Vietnam War, politics, history, the Civil Rights Movement, business, media, American culture, and later, sports journalism.

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David K. Shipler

David K. Shipler (born December 3, 1942) is an American author.

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David Remnick

David Remnick (born October 29, 1958) is an American journalist, writer, and magazine editor.

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Devil in the Grove

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America is a 2012 non-fiction book by the American author Gilbert King.

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Diana Trilling

Diana Trilling (née Rubin; July 21, 1905 – October 23, 1996) was an American literary critic and author, one of the New York Intellectuals.

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Diane Ackerman

Diane Ackerman (born October 7, 1948) is an American poet, essayist, and naturalist known for her wide-ranging curiosity and poetic explorations of the natural world.

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Diane Johnson

Diane Johnson (born April 28, 1934) is an American novelist and essayist whose satirical novels often feature American heroines living abroad in contemporary France.

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Diane McWhorter

Rebecca Diane McWhorter is an American journalist, commentator and author who has written extensively about race and the history of civil rights.

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Douglas A. Blackmon

Douglas A. Blackmon (born 1964) is an American writer and journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for his book, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II.

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Douglas Hofstadter

Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American professor of cognitive science whose research focuses on the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics.

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E. O. Wilson

Edward Osborne Wilson (born June 10, 1929), usually cited as E. O. Wilson, is an American biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist and author.

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Edwin Way Teale

Edwin Way Teale (June 2, 1899 – October 18, 1980) was an American naturalist, photographer and writer.

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Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert (born 1961) is an American journalist and author and visiting fellow at Williams College.

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Ellen Meloy

Ellen Meloy (June 21, 1946, Pasadena, California – November 4, 2004, Bluff, Utah) was an American nature writer.

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Embracing Defeat

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II is a history book written by John W. Dower and published by W. W. Norton & Company in 1999.

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Erik Erikson

Erik Homberger Erikson (born Erik Salomonsen; 15 June 1902 – 12 May 1994) was a German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on psychological development of human beings.

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Ernest Becker

Ernest Becker (September 27, 1924 – March 6, 1974) was a Jewish-American cultural anthropologist and writer.

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Evan Osnos

Evan Lionel Richard Osnos (born December 24, 1976) is an American journalist and author.

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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is a 2016 non-fiction book by the American author Matthew Desmond.

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Fiasco (book)

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (2006) is a book by Washington Post Pentagon correspondent Thomas E. Ricks.

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Fin-de-siècle Vienna

Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture is a 1979 transdisciplinary non-fiction book written by cultural historian Carl E. Schorske and published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Described by its publisher as a "magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born," the book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

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Fire in the Lake

Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (1972) is a book by American journalist Frances FitzGerald (1940-) about Vietnam, its history and national character, and the United States warfare there.

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Frances FitzGerald (journalist)

Frances FitzGerald (born October 21, 1940) is an American journalist and historian, who is primarily known for Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (1972), an account of the Vietnam War.

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Fred Kaplan (journalist)

Fred M. Kaplan (born July 4, 1954) is an American author and journalist.

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Gandhi's Truth

Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence is a 1969 book about Mahatma Gandhi by the German-born American developmental psychologist Erik H. Erikson.

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Garry Wills

Garry Wills (born May 22, 1934) is an American author, journalist, and historian, specializing in American history, politics, and religion, especially the history of the Catholic Church.

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Gödel, Escher, Bach

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, also known as GEB, is a 1979 book by Douglas Hofstadter.

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George Packer

George Packer (born August 13, 1960) is an American journalist, novelist, and playwright.

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Ghost Wars

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, abbreviated as Ghost Wars, is a book written by Steve Coll, published in 2004 by Penguin Press, won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

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Gilbert King (author)

Gilbert Anthony King (born February 22, 1962) is an American writer and photographer.

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Gulag: A History

Gulag: A History, also published as Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps, is a non-fiction book covering the history of the Soviet Gulag system.

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Guns, Germs, and Steel

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (also titled Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years) is a 1997 transdisciplinary non-fiction book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

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Herbert P. Bix

Herbert P. Bix (born 1938) is an American historian.

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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (2000) is a book by Herbert P. Bix covering the reign of Emperor Hirohito of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989.

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How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities

How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities (2009) is a book by economist and journalist John Cassidy.

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How the Mind Works

How the Mind Works is a 1997 book by Canadian-American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, in which the author attempts to explain some of the human mind's poorly understood functions and quirks in evolutionary terms.

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Howard Mumford Jones

Howard Mumford Jones (April 16, 1892 – May 11, 1980) was an American intellectual historian, literary critic, journalist, poet, and professor of English at the University of Michigan and later at Harvard University.

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Imperial Reckoning

Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya is a 2005 non-fiction book written by Caroline Elkins and published by Henry Holt.

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In a Different Key

In a Different Key: The Story of Autism is a book by John Donvan and Caren Zucker.

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Into Thin Air

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt.

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Is There No Place on Earth for Me?

Is There No Place On Earth For Me? written by Susan Sheehan and published in 1982 by Houghton Mifflin, it won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

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J. Anthony Lukas

Jay Anthony Lukas, or J. Anthony Lucas (April 25, 1933 – June 5, 1997), was an American journalist and author, probably best known for his 1985 book Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families.

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James Forman Jr.

James Forman Jr. (born James Robert Lumumba Forman on June 22, 1967) is an American legal scholar and Professor of Law at Yale Law School.

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James Gleick

James Gleick (born August 1, 1954) is an American author and historian of science whose work has chronicled the cultural impact of modern technology.

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Jared Diamond

Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American ecologist, geographer, biologist, anthropologist and author best known for his popular science books The Third Chimpanzee (1991); Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997, awarded a Pulitzer Prize); Collapse (2005); and The World Until Yesterday (2012).

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Joby Warrick

Joby Warrick (born August 4, 1960) is an American journalist who has won two Pulitzer Prizes.

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John Berendt

John Berendt (born December 5, 1939) is an American author, known for writing the best-selling non-fiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.

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John Cassidy (journalist)

__notoc__ John Joseph Cassidy (born 1963) is an American journalist and British expat who is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a contributor to The New York Review of Books, having previously been an editor at The Sunday Times of London and a deputy editor at the New York Post.

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John Donvan

John Donvan (born 1955) is a four-time Emmy Award-winning journalist, broadcaster and debate moderator whose bestselling book, In a Different Key: The Story of Autism, was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist.

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John Lukacs

John Adalbert Lukacs (Hungarian: Lukács János Albert; born 31 January 1924) is a Hungarian-born American historian who has written more than thirty books, including Five Days in London, May 1940 and A New Republic.

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John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (born March 8, 1931) is an American writer, widely considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction.

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John Toland (author)

John Willard Toland (June 29, 1912 – January 4, 2004) was an American writer and historian.

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John W. Dower

John W. Dower (born June 21, 1938 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American author and historian.

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Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American writer and mountaineer, primarily known for his writings about the outdoors, especially mountain climbing.

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Jonathan Kwitny

Jonathan Kwitny (March 23, 1941 – November 26, 1998) was an American investigative journalist.

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Jonathan Schell

Jonathan Edward Schell (August 21, 1943 – March 25, 2014) was an American author and visiting fellow at Yale University, whose work primarily dealt with campaigning against nuclear weapons.

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Jonathan Weiner

Jonathan Weiner (born 1953 in New York City) is a writer of non-fiction books on his biology observations, in particular evolution in the Galápagos Islands, genetics, and the environment.

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Joseph Lelyveld

Joseph Lelyveld (born April 5, 1937) was an American executive editor of the New York Times from 1994 to 2001, and interim executive editor in 2003 after the resignation of Howell Raines.

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Judith Rich Harris

Judith Rich Harris (born February 10, 1938) is a psychology researcher and the author of The Nurture Assumption, a book criticizing the belief that parents are the most important factor in child development, and presenting evidence which contradicts that belief.

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Katherine Boo

Katherine "Kate" J. Boo (born August 12, 1964) is an American investigative journalist who has documented the lives of people in poverty.

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Lawrence Weschler

Lawrence Weschler (born 1952) is an author of works of creative nonfiction.

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Lawrence Wright

Lawrence Wright (born August 2, 1947) is an American author, screenwriter, staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, and fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law.

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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire is a book by American author David Remnick.

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Lewis Thomas

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Lincoln at Gettysburg

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America written by Garry Wills and published by Simon & Schuster in 1992, won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.

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Luís Alberto Urrea

Luis Alberto Urrea (born August 20, 1955 in Tijuana, Mexico) is a Mexican American poet, novelist, and essayist.

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Mara Hvistendahl

Mara Hvistendahl is an American writer.

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Marshall Frady

Marshall Bolton Frady (January 11, 1940 – March 9, 2004) was an American journalist and author particularly known for his work on the civil rights movement in the American South.

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Matthew Desmond

Matthew Desmond is an American sociologist who is a professor in the department of sociology at Princeton University.

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Maximum City

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found is a narrative nonfiction book by Suketu Mehta, published in 2004, about the Indian city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay).

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Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston (born Maxine Ting Ting Hong;Huntley, E. D. (2001). Maxine Hong Kingston: A Critical Companion. p. 1. October 27, 1940) is a Chinese American author and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962.

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Michael Williamson (photographer)

Michael Williamson (born 1957) is an American photojournalist.

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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is non-fiction work by John Berendt.

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Move Your Shadow

Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White, written by Joseph Lelyveld and published by Times Books in 1985, won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction as well as the 1986 ''Los Angeles Times'' Book Prize for Current Interest.

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Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder

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Neil Sheehan

Cornelius Mahoney "Neil" Sheehan (born October 27, 1936) is an American journalist.

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Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing

Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing is a non-fiction book by Ted Conover, published in 2000.

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Nicholas G. Carr

Nicholas G. Carr (born 1959) is an American writer who has published books and articles on technology, business, and culture.

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Norman Mailer

Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist.

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O Strange New World

O Strange New World: American Culture - The Formative Years was written by Howard Mumford Jones and published by Viking Press in 1964; it won the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

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On Human Nature

On Human Nature (1978; second edition 2004) is a book by Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson, in which the author attempts to explain human nature and society through sociobiology.

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Paul Starr

Paul Starr (born May 12, 1949) is a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University.

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Pete Earley

Pete Earley is an American journalist and writer of non-fiction books and novels.

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Peter Gay

Peter Gay (born Peter Joachim Fröhlich; June 20, 1923 – May 12, 2015) was a German-American historian, educator and author.

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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is a 1974 nonfiction narrative book by American author Annie Dillard.

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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 is a 2005 non-fiction book written by British historian and scholar Tony Judt who specialised in European history.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

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Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

The Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Pulitzer Prize for History

The Pulitzer Prize for History, administered by Columbia University, is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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René Dubos

René Jules Dubos (February 20, 1901 – February 20, 1982) was a French-born American microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, humanist, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book So Human An Animal.

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Richard Hofstadter

Richard Hofstadter (August 6, 1916 – October 24, 1970) was an American historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century.

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Richard Kluger

Richard Kluger (born 1934) is an American author who has won a Pulitzer Prize.

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Richard Prum

Richard O. Prum is William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology, and Head Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University.

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Richard Rhodes

Richard Lee Rhodes (born July 4, 1937) is an American historian, journalist and author of both fiction and non-fiction (which he prefers to call "verity"), including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), and most recently, Energy: A Human History (2018).

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Richard Rodriguez

Richard Rodriguez (born July 31, 1944) is an American writer who became famous as the author of Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982), a narrative about his intellectual development.

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Robert Coles

Robert Coles (born October 12, 1929) is an American author, child psychiatrist, and professor emeritus at Harvard University.

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Robert Neelly Bellah

Robert Neelly Bellah (February 23, 1927 – July 30, 2013) was an American sociologist, and the Elliott Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Robert Neil Butler

Robert Neil Butler (January 21, 1927 – July 4, 2010) was a physician, gerontologist, psychiatrist, and author, who was the first director of the National Institute on Aging.

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Robert Wright (journalist)

Robert Wright (born January 15, 1957) is an American journalist who writes about science, history and religion, including The Evolution of God, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, The Moral Animal, Why Buddhism is True, and Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information.

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S. C. Gwynne

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Samantha Power

Samantha Jane Power (born September 21, 1970) is an Irish-born American academic, author, political critic, and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017.

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Samuel G. Freedman

Samuel G. Freedman is an American author and journalist and currently a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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Sandra Gilbert

Sandra M. Gilbert (born December 27, 1936), Professor Emerita of English at the University of California, Davis, is an American literary critic and poet who has published in the fields of feminist literary criticism, feminist theory, and psychoanalytic criticism.

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Saul Friedländer

Saul Friedländer (born October 11, 1932) is an Israeli/American historian and currently a professor emeritus of history at UCLA.

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Scott Weidensaul

Scott Weidensaul (born 1959) is a Pennsylvania-based naturalist and author.

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Sherwin B. Nuland

Sherwin Bernard Nuland (born Shepsel Ber Nudelman; December 8, 1930 – March 3, 2014) was an American surgeon and writer who taught bioethics, history of medicine, and medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, and occasionally bioethics and history of medicine at Yale College.

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Siddhartha Mukherjee

Siddhartha Mukherjee (born 21 July 1970) is an Indian-American physician, biologist, oncologist, and author.

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Slavery by Another Name

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II is a book by American writer Douglas A. Blackmon, published by Anchor Books in 2008.

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So Human an Animal

So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and Events, is a book written by René Dubos and published by Scribner in 1968.

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Stephen Greenblatt

Stephen Jay Greenblatt (born November 7, 1943) is an American Shakespearean, literary historian, and author.

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Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science.

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Steve Coll

Steve Coll (born October 8, 1958) is an American journalist, academic and executive.

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Steven Nadler

Steven Nadler is an American philosopher.

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Steven Pinker

Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author.

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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45

Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45 is a work of history written by Barbara W. Tuchman and published in 1971 by Macmillan Publishers.

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Studs Terkel

Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster.

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Suketu Mehta

Suketu Mehta (born 1963) is a writer based in New York City.

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Susan Griffin

Susan Griffin (born January 26, 1943) is a radical feminist philosopher, essayist and playwright particularly known for her innovative, hybrid-form ecofeminist works.

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Susan Gubar

Susan D. Gubar (born November 30, 1944) is an American author and distinguished Professor Emerita of English and Women's Studies at Indiana University.

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Susan Jacoby

Susan Jacoby (born June 4, 1945) is an American author.

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Susan Sheehan

Susan Sheehan (née Sachsel; born August 24, 1937) is an American writer.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates (born September 30, 1975) is an American author, journalist, comic book writer, and educator.

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Ted Conover

Ted Conover (born January 17, 1958 in Okinawa and raised in Denver, Colorado) is an American author and journalist.

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The Ants

The Ants is a zoology textbook by the German entomologist Bert Hölldobler and the American entomologist E. O. Wilson, first published in 1990.

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The Armies of the Night

The Armies of the Night is a nonfiction novel written by Norman Mailer and published by New American Library in 1968.

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The Beak of the Finch

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time is a 1994 nonfiction book about evolutionary biology, written by Jonathan Weiner.

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The Blank Slate

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature is a best-selling 2002 book by Steven Pinker, in which the author makes a case against tabula rasa models in the social sciences, arguing that human behavior is substantially shaped by evolutionary psychological adaptations.

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The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide

The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide is a 2013 book by American journalist and academic Gary J. Bass about The Blood telegram.

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The Dead Hand

The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy is the winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction written by Washington Post contributing editor David E. Hoffman.

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The Denial of Death

The Denial of Death is a 1973 work of psychology and philosophy by Ernest Becker.

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The Dragons of Eden

The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence is a 1977 book by Carl Sagan, in which the author combines the fields of anthropology, evolutionary biology, psychology, and computer science to give a perspective on how human intelligence may have evolved.

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The Elegant Universe

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory is a book by Brian Greene published in 1999, which introduces string and superstring theory, and provides a comprehensive though non-technical assessment of the theory and some of its shortcomings.

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The Emperor of All Maladies

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer is a book written by Siddhartha Mukherjee, an Indian-born American physician and oncologist.

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The Evolution of God

The Evolution of God is a 2009 book by Robert Wright, in which the author explores the history of the concept of God in the three Abrahamic religions through a variety of means, including archeology, history, theology, and evolutionary psychology. The patterns which link Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and the ways in which they have changed their concepts over time are explored as one of the central themes. One of the conclusions of the book that Wright tries to make is a reconciliation between science and religion. He also speculates on the future of the concept of God.

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The Fate of the Earth

The Fate of the Earth is a 1982 book by Jonathan Schell.

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The Forest Unseen

The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature is a 2012 book written by David G. Haskell.

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The Good War

"The Good War": An Oral History of World War II (1984) is an oral history of World War II compiled by Studs Terkel.

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The Guns of August

The Guns of August (1962), also published as August 1914, is a volume of history by Barbara W. Tuchman.

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The Haunted Land

The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism written by Tina Rosenberg and published by Random House in 1995, won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the 1995 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

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The Looming Tower

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 is a 2006 non-fiction book by Lawrence Wright.

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The Madwoman in the Attic

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination is a 1979 book by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, in which they examine Victorian literature from a feminist perspective.

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The Making of the Atomic Bomb

The Making of the Atomic Bomb is a contemporary history book written by the American journalist and historian Richard Rhodes, first published by Simon & Schuster in 1987.

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The Making of the President, 1960

The Making of the President, 1960, written by journalist Theodore White and published by Atheneum Publishers in 1961, is a book that recounts and analyzes the 1960 election in which John F. Kennedy was elected President of the United States.

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The Noonday Demon

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression is a memoir written by Andrew Solomon and first published under the Scribner imprint of New York's Simon & Schuster publishing house in 2001.

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The Nurture Assumption

The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do is a book by the psychologist Judith Rich Harris, with a foreword by the psychologist Steven Pinker, originally published 1998 by the Free Press, which published a revised edition in 2009.

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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power is Daniel Yergin's history of the global petroleum industry from the 1850s through 1990.

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The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture

The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture written by David Brion Davis and published by Cornell University Press in 1966 won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1967.

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The Rising Sun

The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945, written by John Toland, was published by Random House in 1970 and won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

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The Shallows (book)

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, published in the United Kingdom as The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember, is a 2010 book by the American journalist Nicholas G. Carr.

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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History is a 2014 non-fiction book written by Elizabeth Kolbert and published by Henry Holt & Company.

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The Social Transformation of American Medicine

The Social Transformation of American Medicine is a book written by Paul Starr and published by Basic Books in 1982.

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The Soul of a New Machine

The Soul of a New Machine is a non-fiction book written by Tracy Kidder and published in 1981.

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The Story of Civilization

The Story of Civilization, by husband and wife Will and Ariel Durant, is an eleven-volume set of books covering Western history for the general reader.

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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (UK title: The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began) is a book by Stephen Greenblatt and winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and 2011 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

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The Years of Extermination

The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945 is the second volume of Saul Friedländer's history of Nazi Germany and the Jews.

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Theodore H. White

Theodore Harold White (May 6, 1915 – May 15, 1986) was an American political journalist and historian, known for his reporting from China during World War II and accounts of the 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976 and 1980 presidential elections.

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Thomas B. Edsall

Thomas Byrne Edsall (born August 22, 1941) is an American journalist and liberal / progressive academic, Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, 2006–2014; adjunct professor 2014–2017, Columbia University School of Journalism in New York City.

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Thomas E. Ricks (journalist)

Thomas Edwin "Tom" Ricks (born September 25, 1955) is an American journalist and author who specializes in the military and national security issues.

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Timothy Ferris

Timothy Ferris (born August 29, 1944) is an American science writer and the best-selling author of twelve books, including The Science of Liberty (2010) and Coming of Age in the Milky Way (1988), for which he was awarded the American Institute of Physics Prize and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

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Tina Rosenberg

Tina Rosenberg (born April 14, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American journalist and the author of three books.

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Toms River (book)

Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation is a 2013 non-fiction book by the American author Dan Fagin.

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Tony Judt

Tony Robert Judt, FBA (2 January 1948 – 6 August 2010) was a English-American historian, essayist and university professor who specialised in European history.

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Tracy Kidder

John Tracy Kidder (born November 12, 1945) is an American writer of nonfiction books.

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Wandering Through Winter

Wandering Through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey Through the North American Winter is a non-fiction book written by Edwin Way Teale, published in 1965 by Dodd, Mead and Company, and winner of the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

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Why Survive? Being Old in America

Why Survive? Being Old In America was written by Robert Neil Butler and published by Harper & Row in 1975, it won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

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Will Durant

William James "Will" Durant (November 5, 1885 – November 7, 1981) was an American writer, historian, and philosopher.

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William I. Hitchcock

William I. Hitchcock is a professor of history at the University of Virginia.

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William Manchester

William Raymond Manchester (April 1, 1922 – June 1, 2004) was an American author, biographer, and historian.

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William W. Warner

William W. Warner (April 2, 1920 – April 18, 2008) was an American biologist and writer.

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Winston Groom

Winston Francis Groom, Jr. (born March 23, 1943) is an American novelist and non-fiction writer.

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1962 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1962.

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1963 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1963.

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1964 in literature

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1977 in literature

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1978 in literature

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1981 in literature

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1982 in literature

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1983 in literature

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1986 in literature

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1988 in literature

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1989 in literature

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