For a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category, Five thousand dollars ($5,000).

Awarded to Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger (Alfred A. Knopf)

Columbia University President, George Rupp (left), presents Richard Kluger with the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.

Finalists

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: "The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond" by Samuel G. Freedman (Simon & Schuster), and "Fame and Folly" by Cynthia Ozick (Alfred A. Knopf).