Award overlap

Books That Won Both the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and Memoir or Autobiography

1 book has won both the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and Memoir or Autobiography: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (2007/2007). 6 more were recognized by both without winning both.

Years are award years. Lionel Gelber Prize · Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and Memoir or Autobiography

Won both

Books that won both the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and Memoir or Autobiography, most recent first.
BookAuthorLionel Gelber PrizePulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and Memoir or Autobiography
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11Lawrence Wright
  • 2007 Winner (International Affairs)
  • 2007 Winner (General Nonfiction)

Recognized by both

Books recognized by both the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and Memoir or Autobiography without winning both, most recent first.
BookAuthorLionel Gelber PrizePulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and Memoir or Autobiography
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident MovementBenjamin Nathans
  • 2025 Shortlist (International Affairs)
  • 2025 Winner (General Nonfiction)
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New ChinaEvan Osnos
  • 2015 Shortlist (International Affairs)
  • 2015 Finalist (General Nonfiction)
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten GenocideGary J. Bass
  • 2014 Winner (International Affairs)
  • 2014 Finalist (General Nonfiction)
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous LegacyDavid E. Hoffman
  • 2010 Shortlist (International Affairs)
  • 2010 Winner (General Nonfiction)
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in IraqThomas E. Ricks
  • 2007 Shortlist (International Affairs)
  • 2007 Finalist (General Nonfiction)
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in KenyaCaroline Elkins
  • 2006 Shortlist (International Affairs)
  • 2006 Winner (General Nonfiction)