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Pulitzer PrizeCategories: Literary Fiction, General Nonfiction, Biography, History, Drama, Poetry, Memoir / Autobiography
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper journalism, literature and musical composition. The Pulitzer was established by and named after the Hungarian-American publisher Joseph Pulitzer. The awards are administered by Columbia University in New York City. Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. We've sorted our books by the six subcategories in the "letters and drama" category.

2025
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
Author: Kathleen DuVal
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2025
COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War
COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War
Author: Edda L. Fields-Black
  • Currently 2.5/5 Stars.
 1

Other Versions: Paperback

2024
No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era
No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era
Author: Jacqueline Jones
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Other Versions: Paperback

2023
Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
Author: Jefferson Cowie
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Other Versions: Paperback

2022
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
Author: Nicole Eustace
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Other Versions: Paperback

2021
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
Author: Marcia Chatelain
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Other Versions: Hardcover

2020
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
Author: W. Caleb McDaniel
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Other Versions: Hardcover

2019
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Author: David W. Blight
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
 1

Other Versions: Audio CD (Unabridged AUDIO), Paperback

2018
The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea
The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea
Author: Jack E. Davis
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Other Versions: Paperback

2017
Blood in the Water: The Attica Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Blood in the Water: The Attica Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Author: Heather Ann Thompson
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
 1

Other Versions: Paperback

2016
Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
Author: T. J. Stiles
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 4

Other Versions: Paperback

2015
Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
Author: Elizabeth A. Fenn
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Other Versions: Hardcover

2014
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
Author: Alan Taylor
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 3

Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD (MP3 Una)

2013
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
Author: Fredrik Logevall
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
 2

Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD (MP3 Una)

2012
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Author: Manning Marable
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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Other Versions: Audio CD, Paperback, Hardcover

2011
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
Author: Eric Foner
  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
 3

Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD (Unabridged,MP3 - Una)

2010
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
Author: Liaquat Ahamed
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 11

Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD (Unabridged), Audio CD (Library ed.), Audio CD (MP3 Una), Hardcover

2009
The Hemingses of Monticello
The Hemingses of Monticello
Author: Annette Gordon-Reed
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 10

Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD (Unabridged), Audio CD (Library ed.), Audio CD (MP3 Una), Hardcover

2008
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford History of the United States)
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford History of the United States)
Author: Daniel Walker Howe
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 5

Other Versions: Paperback

2007
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
Author: Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 3

Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette (Library), Audio CD (Library)

2006
Polio: An American Story
Polio: An American Story
Author: David M. Oshinsky
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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Other Versions: Paperback, Hardcover

2005
Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History)
Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History)
Author: David Hackett Fischer
  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
 15

Other Versions: Paperback, Hardcover

2004
A Nation under Our Feet : Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
A Nation under Our Feet : Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
Author: Steven Hahn
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
 1

Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD (MP3 Una)

2003
An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy
An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy
Author: Rick Atkinson
  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
 9

Other Versions: Paperback

2002
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
Author: Louis Menand
  • Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
 23

Other Versions: Hardcover, Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD (Abridged)

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2001
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Author: Joseph J. Ellis
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette (Unabridged), Hardcover

2000
Freedom from Fear : The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States, Vol 9)
Freedom from Fear : The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States, Vol 9)
Author: David M. Kennedy
  • Currently 4.5/5 Stars.
 4

Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette (Unabridged), Hardcover

1999
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
Author: Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
 4

Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette (Unabridged), Hardcover

1998
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion
Author: Edward J. Larson
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 8

Other Versions: Paperback, Hardcover

1997
Original Meanings : Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
Original Meanings : Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
Author: Jack N. Rakove
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 3

Other Versions: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD (Unabridged), Audio CD (MP3CD Unabridged)

1996
William Cooper's Town : Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
William Cooper's Town : Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
Author: Alan Taylor
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
 2

Other Versions: Hardcover

1995
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
 75

Other Versions: Audio Cassette, Hardcover, Audio CD (Abridged), Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette

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1994

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1993
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Author: Gordon S. Wood
  • Currently 4.4/5 Stars.
 12

Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD (Unabridged,Unabridge), Audio CD (Unabridged,MP3 - Una)

1992
The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
Author: Mark E. Neely
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Other Versions: Hardcover

1991
A Midwife's Tale : The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785 - 1812
A Midwife's Tale : The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785 - 1812
Author: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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1990
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines
Author: Stanley Karnow
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Other Versions: Hardcover, Hardcover

1989
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Author: James M. McPherson
  • Currently 4.4/5 Stars.
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Other Versions: Paperback, Paperback, Paperback, Paperback

1989
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954 - 63 (America in the King Years, Bk 1)
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954 - 63 (America in the King Years, Bk 1)
Author: Taylor Branch
  • Currently 4.7/5 Stars.
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Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette

1988
The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876 (Impact of the Civil War)
The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876 (Impact of the Civil War)
Author: Robert V. Bruce
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1987
Voyagers to the West : A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
Voyagers to the West : A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
Author: Bernard Bailyn
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette

1986
...the Heavens and the Earth : A Political History of the Space Age
...the Heavens and the Earth : A Political History of the Space Age
Author: Walter A. McDougall
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Other Versions: Hardcover, Paperback, Hardcover, Paperback

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