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</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Rick Atkinson</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><div class="infobox-caption">at 2015 National Book Festival</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Lawrence Rush Atkinson IV</div><br><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1952-11-15</span>) </span>November 15, 1952<br><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a>, then <a href="West_Germany" title="West Germany">West Germany</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma&nbsp;mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">
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</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="East_Carolina_University" title="East Carolina University">East Carolina University</a> (<a href="Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">B.A.</a>)</li><li><a href="University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a> (<a href="Master_of_Arts" title="Master of Arts">M.A.</a>)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupations</th><td class="infobox-data role"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">
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</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Journalist</li><li>editor</li><li>historian</li><li>author</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Agent</th><td class="infobox-data agent">Raphael Sagalyn</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1298804929">
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<div class="marriage-display-inline"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Jane Ann Chestnut</div> <div style="display:inline-block;">​</div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr>&nbsp;1979)<wbr>​</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><b>Lawrence Rush</b> "<b>Rick</b>" <b>Atkinson IV</b> (born November 15, 1952) is an American author and journalist.
</p><p>After working as a newspaper reporter, editor, and foreign correspondent for <i><a href="The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i>, Atkinson turned to writing <a href="Military_history" title="Military history">military history</a>. His eight books include narrative accounts of five different American wars. He has won <a href="Pulitzer_Prize" title="Pulitzer Prize">Pulitzer Prizes</a> in history and journalism.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>His <a href="The_Liberation_Trilogy" title="The Liberation Trilogy">Liberation Trilogy</a>, a history of the American role in the liberation of Europe in <a href="World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, concluded with the publication of <i>The Guns at Last Light</i> in May 2013. In 2010, he received the $100,000 <a href="Pritzker_Military_Library_Literature_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Pritzker Military Library Literature Award">Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life_and_career">Life and career</h2></div>
<p>Atkinson was born in <a href="Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a> to Margaret (née Howe) and Larry Atkinson, who was a <a href="U.S._Army" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Army">U.S. Army</a> officer. Turning down an appointment to <a href="West_Point" class="mw-redirect" title="West Point">West Point</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he instead attended <a href="East_Carolina_University" title="East Carolina University">East Carolina University</a> on a full scholarship, graduating with a bachelor of arts degree in English in 1974. He received a master of arts degree in English language and literature from the <a href="University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a> in 1975.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>While visiting his parents for Christmas at <a href="Fort_Riley" title="Fort Riley">Fort Riley</a>, Kansas, in 1975, Atkinson found a job as a newspaper reporter for <i><a href="The_Morning_Sun_(Pittsburg)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Morning Sun (Pittsburg)">The Morning Sun</a></i> in <a href="Pittsburg%2C_Kansas" title="Pittsburg, Kansas">Pittsburg, Kansas</a>, covering crime, local government, and other topics in southeast Kansas, an area known as "the Little <a href="Balkans" title="Balkans">Balkans</a>" for its ethnic diversity and fractious politics. In April 1977, he joined the staff of <i><a href="The_Kansas_City_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="The Kansas City Times">The Kansas City Times</a></i>, working nights in suburban <a href="Johnson_County%2C_Kansas" title="Johnson County, Kansas">Johnson County, Kansas</a> before moving to the city desk and eventually serving as a national reporter.<sup id="cite_ref-Contemporary2_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Contemporary2-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In 1981, he joined the newspaper's bureau in Washington, D.C. He won the <a href="Pulitzer_Prize" title="Pulitzer Prize">Pulitzer Prize</a> for national reporting in 1982<sup id="cite_ref-Contemporary2_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Contemporary2-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for a "body of work" that included a series about the <a href="West_Point" class="mw-redirect" title="West Point">West Point</a> class of 1966, which lost more men in <a href="Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a> than any other <a href="Military_Academy" class="mw-redirect" title="Military Academy">Military Academy</a> class. He also contributed to the newspaper's coverage of the <a href="Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse" title="Hyatt Regency walkway collapse">Hyatt Regency</a> walkway collapse in <a href="Kansas_City%2C_Missouri" title="Kansas City, Missouri">Kansas City, Missouri</a>, for which the paper's staff in 1982 was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for local spot news reporting.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In November 1983, Atkinson was hired as a reporter on the national staff of <i><a href="The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i>. He wrote about defense issues, the <a href="1984_U.S._Presidential_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1984 U.S. Presidential election">1984 presidential election</a>. He covered Rep. <a href="Geraldine_Ferraro" title="Geraldine Ferraro">Geraldine Ferraro</a>, the first woman vice-presidential candidate for a major party, and national topics. In 1985, he became deputy national editor, overseeing coverage of defense, diplomacy, and intelligence. In 1988, he returned to reporting as a member of the <i>Post</i> investigative staff, writing about public housing in the District of Columbia and the secret history of Project Senior C.J., which became the <a href="B-2_stealth_bomber" class="mw-redirect" title="B-2 stealth bomber">B-2 stealth bomber</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In 1991, he was the newspaper's lead writer during the <a href="Persian_Gulf_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Persian Gulf War">Persian Gulf War</a>. In 1993, he joined the foreign staff as bureau chief in <a href="Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a>, covering Germany and <a href="NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> and spending time in Somalia and Bosnia. He returned from Europe in 1996 to become assistant managing editor for investigations; in that role, he headed a seven-member team that for more than a year scrutinized shootings by the District of Columbia police department, resulting in "Deadly Force," a series for which the <i>Post</i> was awarded the <a href="Pulitzer_Prize_for_Public_Service" title="Pulitzer Prize for Public Service">Pulitzer Prize for Public Service</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In 1999, Atkinson left the newspaper world to write about <a href="World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, an interest that began with his birth in Germany and was rekindled during his three-year tour in Berlin. He twice rejoined the <i>Post</i>, first in 2003 when for two months he accompanied General <a href="David_Petraeus" title="David Petraeus">David Petraeus</a> and the <a href="101st_Airborne_Division" title="101st Airborne Division">101st Airborne Division</a> during the invasion of <a href="Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>, and again in 2007 when he made trips to Iraq and Afghanistan while writing "Left of Boom", an investigative series about roadside bombs in modern warfare, which won the Gerald R. Ford Award for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense. He held the Omar N. Bradley Chair of Strategic Leadership at the <a href="United_States_Army_War_College" title="United States Army War College">United States Army War College</a> and <a href="Dickinson_College" title="Dickinson College">Dickinson College</a> in 2004–2005,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and remains an adjunct faculty member at the war college.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Atkinson is a presidential counselor at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a member of the Society of American Historians,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and an inductee in the Academy of Achievement, for which he also serves as a board member.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He formerly served on the governing commission of the <a href="National_Portrait_Gallery_(United_States)" title="National Portrait Gallery (United States)">National Portrait Gallery</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Atkinson is married and has two children.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2></div>
<p>Atkinson's first book, written while on leave from the <i>Post</i>, was <i>The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966</i>. A 1989 review in <i>Time</i> magazine called it "brilliant history",<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i><a href="Business_Week" class="mw-redirect" title="Business Week">Business Week</a></i> reviewer Dave Griffiths called it "the best book out of Vietnam to date".<sup id="cite_ref-Contemporary2_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Contemporary2-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Author <a href="James_Salter" title="James Salter">James Salter</a>, reviewing the book for <i><a href="The_Washington_Post_Book_World" class="mw-redirect" title="The Washington Post Book World">The Washington Post Book World</a></i>, wrote, "Enormously rich in detail and written with a novelist's brilliance, the pages literally hurry before one."<sup id="cite_ref-salter1_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-salter1-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In 1993, Atkinson wrote <i>Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War</i>. In a review, <i><a href="The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a></i> wrote, "No one could have been better prepared to write a book on Desert Storm, and Atkinson's <i>Crusade</i> does full justice to the opportunity."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In 2002, Atkinson's publication of <a href="The_Liberation_Trilogy" title="The Liberation Trilogy">The Liberation Trilogy</a> began with <i><a href="An_Army_at_Dawn%3A_The_War_in_North_Africa_1942%E2%80%931943" class="mw-redirect" title="An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942–1943">An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943</a></i>, acclaimed by <i>The Wall Street Journal</i> as "the best World War II battle narrative since <a href="Cornelius_Ryan" title="Cornelius Ryan">Cornelius Ryan</a>'s classics, <a href="The_Longest_Day_(book)" title="The Longest Day (book)"><i>The Longest Day</i></a> and <a href="A_Bridge_Too_Far_(book)" title="A Bridge Too Far (book)"><i>A Bridge Too Far</i></a>." While with the <a href="101st_Airborne_Division" title="101st Airborne Division">101st Airborne Division</a> south of <a href="Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a> in April 2003, Atkinson learned that the book had been awarded the <a href="Pulitzer_Prize" title="Pulitzer Prize">Pulitzer Prize</a> for history. The trilogy's second volume, <i>The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944</i>, published in 2007, drew praise from <i><a href="The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> as "a triumph of narrative history, elegantly written...and rooted in the sights and sounds of battle."
</p><p>In May 2013, volume three, <i>The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945</i>, was published by Henry Holt and Co., and was ranked #1 on the <i>New York Times</i> Hardcover Nonfiction<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Combined Print &amp; E-Book Nonfiction<sup id="cite_ref-Jennifer_2013_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jennifer_2013-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> bestseller lists. A review in <i>The New York Times</i> called the book "a tapestry of fabulous richness and complexity...Atkinson is a master of what might be called 'pointillism history,' assembling the small dots of pure color into a vivid, tumbling narrative... The Liberation Trilogy is a monumental achievement."<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>As a result of his time with Gen. Petraeus and the 101st Airborne, Atkinson wrote <i>In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat</i>, which <i><a href="The_New_York_Times_Book_Review" title="The New York Times Book Review">The New York Times Book Review</a></i> called "intimate, vivid, and well-informed", and which <i><a href="Newsweek" title="Newsweek">Newsweek</a></i> cited as one of the ten best books of 2004. Atkinson was the lead essayist in <i>Where Valor Rests: Arlington National Cemetery</i>, published by the <a href="National_Geographic_Society" title="National Geographic Society">National Geographic Society</a> in 2007. He is the editor and introductory essayist for an anthology of work by the journalist and military historian <a href="Cornelius_Ryan" title="Cornelius Ryan">Cornelius Ryan</a> published by Library of America in May 2019.
</p><p>In May 2019, the first book in the Revolution Trilogy, <i>The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777</i><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><i>,</i> was published by Henry Holt and edited, as all of Atkinson's books have been, by John Sterling. The <i>New York Times</i> selected <i>The British Are Coming</i> for its 100 Notable Books of 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-notable2019_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-notable2019-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It won the 2020 <a href="George_Washington_Book_Prize" title="George Washington Book Prize">George Washington Book Prize</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2025, he published <i>The Fate of the Day</i>, the second book in the Revolution Trilogy.
</p><p>In 2019, Atkinson was named a Vincent J. Dooley Distinguished Fellow by the <a href="Georgia_Historical_Society" title="Georgia Historical Society">Georgia Historical Society</a>, an honor that recognizes national leaders in the field of history as both writers and educators whose research has enhanced or changed the way the public understands the past.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honors">Awards and honors</h2></div>
<ul><li>1982 <a href="Pulitzer_Prize" title="Pulitzer Prize">Pulitzer Prize</a>, National Reporting<sup id="cite_ref-Contemporary2_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Contemporary2-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>1983 <a href="Livingston_Award" title="Livingston Award">Livingston Award</a> for Young Journalists<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>1989 <a href="George_Polk_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="George Polk Award">George Polk Award</a> for National Reporting<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>1999 Pulitzer Prize for public service, awarded to The Post for articles on shootings by the District of Columbia police department<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>2003 Pulitzer Prize in History, <i>An Army at Dawn</i></li>
<li>2003 <a href="Society_for_Military_History_Distinguished_Book_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award">Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award</a><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>2009 <a href="Axel-Springer-Preis" title="Axel-Springer-Preis">Axel Springer Prize</a> and fellowship, the American Academy, Berlin<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>2010 <a href="Pritzker_Military_Library_Literature_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Pritzker Military Library Literature Award">Pritzker Military Library Literature Award</a> for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>2014 <a href="Samuel_Eliot_Morison_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Samuel Eliot Morison Prize">Samuel Eliot Morison Prize</a> for lifetime achievement, <a href="Society_for_Military_History" title="Society for Military History">Society for Military History</a><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>2015 <a href="Helmerich_Award" title="Helmerich Award">Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award</a><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>2020 <a href="George_Washington_Book_Prize" title="George Washington Book Prize">George Washington Book Prize</a> <i>The British Are Coming,</i> for the year's best work on the American founding era<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>2020 <a href="New-York_Historical_Society_book_prizes" class="mw-redirect" title="New-York Historical Society book prizes">New-York Historical Society Barbara and David Zalaznick Prize in American History</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The British Are Coming,</i> for the year's best work in American history or biography</li></ul>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books">Books</h3></div>
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<li><cite class="citation book cs1"><span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/crusadeuntoldsto00atki"><i>Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War</i></a></span>. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1993. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>0395710839</bdi>.</cite><sup id="cite_ref-:0_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><cite class="citation book cs1"><a href="An_Army_at_Dawn%3A_The_War_in_North_Africa%2C_1942%E2%80%931943" class="mw-redirect" title="An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943"><i>An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943</i></a>. New York: <a href="Henry_Holt_and_Company" title="Henry Holt and Company">Henry Holt</a>. 2002. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>0805062882</bdi>.</cite> (The Liberation Trilogy Vol. 1)<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (2003 <a href="Pulitzer_Prize_for_History" title="Pulitzer Prize for History">Pulitzer Prize for History</a>)</li>
<li><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/incompanyofsoldi00atki_0"><i>In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat</i></a>. New York: Henry Holt. 2004. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>0805075615</bdi>.</cite><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/dayofbattlewarin00atki"><i>The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944</i></a>. New York: Henry Holt. 2007. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>9780805062892</bdi>.</cite> (The Liberation Trilogy Vol. 2)<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><cite class="citation news cs1">"Where Valor Rests: Arlington National Cemetery". <i><a href="National_Geographic_(magazine)" class="mw-redirect" title="National Geographic (magazine)">National Geographic</a></i>. Washington, D.C. 2007.</cite><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780805062908"><i>The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945</i></a>. New York: Henry Holt. 2013. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>9780805062908</bdi>.</cite> (The Liberation Trilogy Vol. 3)<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777</i>. Henry Holt and Co. 2019. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>9781627790437</bdi>.</cite> (The Revolution Trilogy Vol. 1)<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777–1780.</i> Crown. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>9780593799185</bdi>. (The Revolution Trilogy Vol. 2, Apr. 29, 2025)<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Young_Readers_Adaptations">Young Readers Adaptations</h3></div>
<ul><li><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>D-Day: The Invasion of Normandy, 1944</i>. New York: Henry Holt. 2014. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>9781627791113</bdi>.</cite> (The Young Readers Adaptation of <i>The Guns of Last Light</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>Battle of the Bulge</i>. New York: Henry Holt. 2015. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>9781627791137</bdi>.</cite> (The Young Readers Adaptation of <i>The Guns at Last Light</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>The British Are Coming (Young Readers Edition)</i>. New York: Henry Holt Books for Young Readers. 2022. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>9781250800589</bdi>.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFAtkinson1989" class="citation book cs1">Atkinson, Rick (1989). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=T6XbAAAAMAAJ"><i>The Long Gray Line</i></a>. Houghton Mifflin. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>9780395480083</bdi>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://liberationtrilogy.com/books/the-long-gray-line/">"The Long Gray Line"</a>. November 26, 2012.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFAtkinson2007" class="citation book cs1">Atkinson, Rick (2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=J4FDFgWB3aYC"><i>An Army at Dawn</i></a>. Henry Holt and Company. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>9781429967631</bdi>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFAtkinson2004" class="citation book cs1">Atkinson, Rick (March 2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=C02_8V4R0YEC"><i>In the Company of Soldiers</i></a>. Macmillan. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>9780805075618</bdi>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFAtkinson2008" class="citation book cs1">Atkinson, Rick (2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=AxX6oQSrPAgC"><i>The Day of Battle</i></a>. Macmillan. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>9780805088618</bdi>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFAtkinson2015" class="citation book cs1">Atkinson, Rick (2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=LgWNBwAAQBAJ"><i>Where Valor Rests</i></a>. National Geographic Books. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>9781426214813</bdi>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFAtkinson2013" class="citation book cs1">Atkinson, Rick (2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=FUQ9lEHO0QoC"><i>The Guns at Last Light</i></a>. Henry Holt and Company. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>9781429943673</bdi>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFAtkinsonWaters2014" class="citation book cs1">Atkinson, Rick; Waters, Kate (2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=7bc0AwAAQBAJ"><i>D-Day</i></a>. Macmillan. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>9781627791113</bdi>.</cite></span>
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<ul><li><table class="infobox" style="clear: right; float:right;margin:0 0 1.5em 1.5em"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:115%">External videos</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?312637-1/depth-rick-atkinson"><i>In Depth</i> interview with Atkinson, June 2, 2013</a>, <a href="C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN">C-SPAN</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?172901-1/an-army-dawn"><i>Booknotes</i> interview with Atkinson on <i>An Army at Dawn</i>, November 17, 2002</a>, <a href="C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN">C-SPAN</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?178467-13/an-army-dawn">Interview with Atkinson on <i>An Army at Dawn</i>, October 4, 2003</a>, <a href="C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN">C-SPAN</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?201110-1/after-words-rick-atkinson"><i>After Words</i> interview with Atkinson on <i>The Day of Battle</i>, November 24, 2007</a>, <a href="C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN">C-SPAN</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?281368-12/the-day-battle">Presentation by Atkinson on <i>The Day of Battle</i>, September 27, 2008</a>, <a href="C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN">C-SPAN</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?320033-1/world-war-ii-sicily-italy">Presentation by Atkinson on <i>The Day of Battle</i>, June 28, 2014</a>, <a href="C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN">C-SPAN</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?315052-10/the-guns-light">Presentation by Atkinson on <i>The Guns at Last Light</i>, September 22, 2013</a>, <a href="C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN">C-SPAN</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?315052-11/open-phones-rick-atkinson">Interview with Atkinson on <i>The Guns at Last Light</i>, September 22, 2013</a>, <a href="C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN">C-SPAN</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?180839-5/in-company-soldiers"><i>Washington Journal</i> interview with Atkinson on <i>In the Company of Soldiers</i>, March 5, 2004</a>, <a href="C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN">C-SPAN</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?181223-1/in-company-soldiers">Presentation by Atkinson on <i>In the Company of Soldiers</i>, March 23, 2004</a>, <a href="C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN">C-SPAN</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?460716-1/the-british-coming">Presentation by Atkinson on <i>The British Are Coming</i>, May 14, 2019</a>, <a href="C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN">C-SPAN</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?463458-18/open-phones-rick-atkinson">Interview with Atkinson on <i>The British Are Coming</i>, August 31, 2019</a>, <a href="C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN">C-SPAN</a></td></tr></tbody></table><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://revolutiontrilogy.com/">Website for <i>The Revolution Trilogy</i></a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.liberationtrilogy.com/">Website for <i>The Liberation Trilogy</i></a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101123232008/http://www.memphis.edu/moch/counterpoint.htm">Rick Atkinson interview on Counterpoint Radio</a> with Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities at the University of Memphis.</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/rick-atkinson-0">Pulitzer Biography in 2003</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070928145718/http://www.duskbeforethedawn.net/category/history-and-ancient-civilizations/rick-atkinson/">Reviews of An Army At Dawn and The Day of Battle (Advanced Readers Copy)</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pritzkermilitary.org/whats_on/pritzker-military-presents/rick-atkinson-company-soldiers">Interview</a> on <i>In the Company of Soldiers</i> on March 17, 2004, at the <a href="Pritzker_Military_Museum_%26_Library" title="Pritzker Military Museum &amp; Library">Pritzker Military Museum &amp; Library</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/whats_on/pritzker-military-presents/rick-atkinson-day-battle/">Interview</a> on <i>The Day of Battle</i> on October 18, 2007 at the <a href="Pritzker_Military_Museum_%26_Library" title="Pritzker Military Museum &amp; Library">Pritzker Military Museum &amp; Library</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/whats_on/video-rucksack/rick-atkinson-2010-pml-literature-award-lecture/">Presentation</a> by Rick Atkinson on April 28, 2011 at the <a href="Pritzker_Military_Museum_%26_Library" title="Pritzker Military Museum &amp; Library">Pritzker Military Museum &amp; Library</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/whats_on/citizen-soldier/max-hastings-rick-atkinson-embedded-journalist-and-military-history/">Interview</a> with <a href="Max_Hastings" title="Max Hastings">Max Hastings</a> at the <a href="Pritzker_Military_Museum_%26_Library" title="Pritzker Military Museum &amp; Library">Pritzker Military Museum &amp; Library</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/whats_on/pritzker-military-presents/rick-atkinson-guns-last-light/">Lecture</a> on <i>Guns at Last Light</i> on May 16, 2013 at <a href="Pritzker_Military_Museum_%26_Library" title="Pritzker Military Museum &amp; Library">Pritzker Military Museum &amp; Library</a></li>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111228215726/http://booknotes.org/Watch/172901-1/Rick+Atkinson.aspx"><i>Booknotes</i> interview with Atkinson on <i>Army at Dawn</i>, November 17, 2002</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?312637-1/depth-rick-atkinson"><i>In Depth</i> interview with Atkinson, June 2, 2013</a></li></ul></li></ul>
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</style><div id="Pulitzer_Prize_for_History_(2001–2025)460" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Pulitzer_Prize" title="Pulitzer Prize">Pulitzer Prize</a> for <a href="Pulitzer_Prize_for_History" title="Pulitzer Prize for History">History</a> (2001–2025)</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Joseph_Ellis" title="Joseph Ellis">Joseph J. Ellis</a> (2001)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Louis_Menand" title="Louis Menand">Louis Menand</a> (2002)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"> (2003)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Steven_Hahn" title="Steven Hahn">Steven Hahn</a> (2004)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="David_Hackett_Fischer" title="David Hackett Fischer">David Hackett Fischer</a> (2005)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="David_Oshinsky" title="David Oshinsky">David Oshinsky</a> (2006)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Gene_Roberts_(journalist)" title="Gene Roberts (journalist)">Gene Roberts</a> and <a href="Hank_Klibanoff" title="Hank Klibanoff">Hank Klibanoff</a> (2007)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Daniel_Walker_Howe" title="Daniel Walker Howe">Daniel Walker Howe</a> (2008)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Annette_Gordon-Reed" title="Annette Gordon-Reed">Annette Gordon-Reed</a> (2009)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Liaquat_Ahamed" title="Liaquat Ahamed">Liaquat Ahamed</a> (2010)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Eric_Foner" title="Eric Foner">Eric Foner</a> (2011)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Manning_Marable" title="Manning Marable">Manning Marable</a> (2012)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Fredrik_Logevall" title="Fredrik Logevall">Fredrik Logevall</a> (2013)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Alan_Taylor_(historian)" title="Alan Taylor (historian)">Alan Taylor</a> (2014)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Elizabeth_A._Fenn" title="Elizabeth A. Fenn">Elizabeth A. Fenn</a> (2015)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="T._J._Stiles" title="T. J. Stiles">T. J. Stiles</a> (2016)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Heather_Ann_Thompson" title="Heather Ann Thompson">Heather Ann Thompson</a> (2017)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Jack_E._Davis" title="Jack E. Davis">Jack E. Davis</a> (2018)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="David_W._Blight" title="David W. Blight">David W. Blight</a> (2019)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="W._Caleb_McDaniel" title="W. Caleb McDaniel">W. Caleb McDaniel</a> (2020)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Marcia_Chatelain" title="Marcia Chatelain">Marcia Chatelain</a> (2021)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Nicole_Eustace" title="Nicole Eustace">Nicole Eustace</a> / <a href="Ada_Ferrer" title="Ada Ferrer">Ada Ferrer</a> (2022)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Jefferson_Cowie" title="Jefferson Cowie">Jefferson Cowie</a> (2023)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Jacqueline_Jones" title="Jacqueline Jones">Jacqueline Jones</a> (2024)</span></li></ul>
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<ul><li><span class="nowrap">Complete list</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">1917–1925</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">1926–1950</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">1951–1975</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">1976–2000</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">2001–2025</span></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Louis_Stark" title="Louis Stark">Louis Stark</a>&nbsp;(1942)</li>
<li><a href="Dewey_L._Fleming" title="Dewey L. Fleming">Dewey L. Fleming</a>&nbsp;(1944)</li>
<li><a href="James_Reston" title="James Reston">James Reston</a>&nbsp;(1945)</li>
<li><a href="Edward_A._Harris" title="Edward A. Harris">Edward A. Harris</a>&nbsp;(1946)</li>
<li><a href="Edward_T._Folliard" title="Edward T. Folliard">Edward T. Folliard</a>&nbsp;(1947)</li>
<li><a href="Bert_Andrews_(journalist)" title="Bert Andrews (journalist)">Bert Andrews</a> &amp; <a href="Nat_S._Finney" title="Nat S. Finney">Nat S. Finney</a>&nbsp;(1948)</li>
<li><a href="C._P._Trussell" title="C. P. Trussell">C. P. Trussell</a>&nbsp;(1949)</li></ul>
</div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="4" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"></span><br><br> <span typeof="mw:File"></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1950–1975</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Edwin_O._Guthman" title="Edwin O. Guthman">Edwin O. Guthman</a>&nbsp;(1950)</li>
<li><a href="Anthony_Leviero" title="Anthony Leviero">Anthony Leviero</a>&nbsp;(1952)</li>
<li><a href="Don_Whitehead" title="Don Whitehead">Don Whitehead</a>&nbsp;(1953)</li>
<li><a href="Richard_L._Wilson" title="Richard L. Wilson">Richard Wilson</a>&nbsp;(1954)</li>
<li><a href="Anthony_Lewis" title="Anthony Lewis">Anthony Lewis</a>&nbsp;(1955)</li>
<li><a href="Charles_L._Bartlett_(journalist)" title="Charles L. Bartlett (journalist)">Charles L. Bartlett</a>&nbsp;(1956)</li>
<li><a href="James_Reston" title="James Reston">James Reston</a>&nbsp;(1957)</li>
<li><a href="Clark_R._Mollenhoff" title="Clark R. Mollenhoff">Clark Mollenhoff</a> &amp; <a href="Relman_Morin" title="Relman Morin">Relman Morin</a>&nbsp;(1958)</li>
<li><a href="Howard_Van_Smith" title="Howard Van Smith">Howard Van Smith</a>&nbsp;(1959)</li>
<li><a href="Vance_Trimble" title="Vance Trimble">Vance Trimble</a>&nbsp;(1960)</li>
<li><a href="Edward_R._Cony" title="Edward R. Cony">Edward R. Cony</a>&nbsp;(1961)</li>
<li><a href="Nat_Caldwell" title="Nat Caldwell">Nathan G. Caldwell</a> &amp; <a href="Gene_Graham" title="Gene Graham">Gene S. Graham</a>&nbsp;(1962)</li>
<li><a href="Anthony_Lewis" title="Anthony Lewis">Anthony Lewis</a>&nbsp;(1963)</li>
<li><a href="Merriman_Smith" title="Merriman Smith">Merriman Smith</a>&nbsp;(1964)</li>
<li><a href="Louis_M._Kohlmeier_Jr." title="Louis M. Kohlmeier Jr.">Louis M. Kohlmeier Jr.</a>&nbsp;(1965)</li>
<li><a href="Haynes_Johnson" title="Haynes Johnson">Haynes Johnson</a>&nbsp;(1966)</li>
<li><a href="Stanley_Penn" title="Stanley Penn">Stanley Penn</a> &amp; <a href="Monroe_Karmin" title="Monroe Karmin">Monroe Karmin</a>&nbsp;(1967)</li>
<li><a href="Nick_Kotz" title="Nick Kotz">Nathan K. (Nick) Kotz</a> &amp; Howard James&nbsp;(1968)</li>
<li>Robert Cahn&nbsp;(1969)</li>
<li><a href="William_J._Eaton" title="William J. Eaton">William J. Eaton</a>&nbsp;(1970)</li>
<li><a href="Lucinda_Franks" title="Lucinda Franks">Lucinda Franks </a>&nbsp;(1971)</li>
<li><a href="Jack_Anderson_(columnist)" title="Jack Anderson (columnist)">Jack Anderson</a>&nbsp;(1972)</li>
<li><a href="Robert_Boyd_(journalist)" title="Robert Boyd (journalist)">Robert Boyd</a> &amp; <a href="Clark_Hoyt" title="Clark Hoyt">Clark Hoyt</a>&nbsp;(1973)</li>
<li><a href="Jack_White_(reporter)" title="Jack White (reporter)">Jack White</a> &amp; <a href="James_Polk_(journalist)" title="James Polk (journalist)">James R. Polk</a>&nbsp;(1974)</li>
<li><a href="Donald_L._Barlett" title="Donald L. Barlett">Donald L. Barlett</a> &amp; <a href="James_B._Steele" title="James B. Steele">James B. Steele</a>&nbsp;(1975)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1976–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="James_V._Risser" title="James V. Risser">James V. Risser</a>&nbsp;(1976)</li>
<li><a href="Walter_Mears" title="Walter Mears">Walter Mears</a>&nbsp;(1977)</li>
<li><a href="Gaylord_Shaw" title="Gaylord Shaw">Gaylord D. Shaw</a>&nbsp;(1978)</li>
<li><a href="James_V._Risser" title="James V. Risser">James V. Risser</a>&nbsp;(1979)</li>
<li><a href="Bette_Swenson_Orsini" title="Bette Swenson Orsini">Bette Swenson Orsini</a> &amp; Charles Stafford&nbsp;(1980)</li>
<li><a href="John_M._Crewdson" title="John M. Crewdson">John M. Crewdson</a>&nbsp;(1981)</li>
<li>&nbsp;(1982)</li>
<li><a href="The_Boston_Globe" title="The Boston Globe">The Boston Globe</a>&nbsp;(1983)</li>
<li><a href="John_Noble_Wilford" title="John Noble Wilford">John Noble Wilford</a>&nbsp;(1984)</li>
<li><a href="Tom_Knudson" title="Tom Knudson">Thomas J. Knudson</a>&nbsp;(1985)</li>
<li><a href="Craig_Flournoy" title="Craig Flournoy">Craig Flournoy</a>, George Rodrigues &amp; <a href="Arthur_Howe" class="mw-redirect" title="Arthur Howe">Arthur Howe</a>&nbsp;(1986)</li>
<li>Staff of <i><a href="Miami_Herald" title="Miami Herald">The Miami Herald</a></i> &amp; Staff of <i><a href="The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>&nbsp;(1987)</li>
<li><a href="Tim_Weiner" title="Tim Weiner">Tim Weiner</a>&nbsp;(1988)</li>
<li><a href="Donald_L._Barlett" title="Donald L. Barlett">Donald L. Barlett</a> &amp; <a href="James_B._Steele" title="James B. Steele">James B. Steele</a>&nbsp;(1989)</li>
<li>Ross Anderson, <a href="William_Dietrich_(novelist)" title="William Dietrich (novelist)">Bill Dietrich</a>, Mary Ann Gwinn &amp; <a href="Eric_Nalder" title="Eric Nalder">Eric Nalder</a>&nbsp;(1990)</li>
<li><a href="Marjie_Lundstrom" title="Marjie Lundstrom">Marjie Lundstrom</a>, <a href="Rochelle_Sharpe" title="Rochelle Sharpe">Rochelle Sharpe</a> &amp; <i><a href="Gannett" title="Gannett">Gannett News Service</a></i>&nbsp;(1991)</li>
<li><a href="Jeff_Taylor_(journalist)" title="Jeff Taylor (journalist)">Jeff Taylor</a>, Mike McGraw &amp; <a href="The_Kansas_City_Star" title="The Kansas City Star">The Kansas City Star</a>&nbsp;(1992)</li>
<li><a href="David_Maraniss" title="David Maraniss">David Maraniss</a>&nbsp;(1993)</li>
<li><a href="Eileen_Welsome" title="Eileen Welsome">Eileen Welsome</a>&nbsp;(1994)</li>
<li><a href="Tony_Horwitz" title="Tony Horwitz">Tony Horwitz</a>&nbsp;(1995)</li>
<li><a href="Alix_M._Freedman" title="Alix M. Freedman">Alix M. Freedman</a>&nbsp;(1996)</li>
<li>Staff of <i><a href="The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a></i>&nbsp;(1997)</li>
<li><a href="Russell_Carollo" title="Russell Carollo">Russell Carollo</a> &amp; <a href="Jeff_Nesmith" title="Jeff Nesmith">Jeff Nesmith</a>&nbsp;(1998)</li>
<li>Staff of <i><a href="The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>&nbsp;(1999)</li>
<li><a href="Jeff_Gerth" title="Jeff Gerth">Jeff Gerth</a>&nbsp;(1999)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2000–2009</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li>Staff of <i><a href="The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a></i>&nbsp;(2000)</li>
<li>Staff of <i><a href="The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>&nbsp;(2001)</li>
<li>Staff of <i><a href="The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i>&nbsp;(2002)</li>
<li><a href="Alan_Miller_(journalist)" title="Alan Miller (journalist)">Alan Miller</a> &amp; <a href="Kevin_Sack" title="Kevin Sack">Kevin Sack</a>&nbsp;(2003)</li>
<li>Staff of <i><a href="Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a></i>&nbsp;(2004)</li>
<li><a href="Walt_Bogdanich" title="Walt Bogdanich">Walt Bogdanich</a>&nbsp;(2005)</li>
<li><a href="James_Risen" title="James Risen">James Risen</a> &amp; <a href="Eric_Lichtblau" title="Eric Lichtblau">Eric Lichtblau</a> (2006)</li>
<li>Staff of <i><a href="The_San_Diego_Union-Tribune" title="The San Diego Union-Tribune">The San Diego Union-Tribune</a></i> &amp; Staff of <i><a href="Copley_Press" title="Copley Press">Copley News Service</a></i> including <a href="Marcus_Stern_(journalist)" title="Marcus Stern (journalist)">Marcus Stern</a> &amp; Jerry Kammer&nbsp;(2006)</li>
<li><a href="Charlie_Savage_(author)" class="mw-redirect" title="Charlie Savage (author)">Charlie Savage</a>&nbsp;(2007)</li>
<li><a href="Jo_Becker" title="Jo Becker">Jo Becker</a> &amp; <a href="Barton_Gellman" title="Barton Gellman">Barton Gellman</a>&nbsp;(2008)</li>
<li>Staff of <i><a href="Tampa_Bay_Times" title="Tampa Bay Times">St. Petersburg Times</a></i>&nbsp;(2009)</li>
<li><a href="Matt_Richtel" title="Matt Richtel">Matt Richtel</a> &amp; Staff of <i><a href="The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times </a></i>&nbsp;(2010)</li>
<li><a href="Jesse_Eisinger" title="Jesse Eisinger">Jesse Eisinger</a> &amp; <a href="Jake_Bernstein_(journalist)" title="Jake Bernstein (journalist)">Jake Bernstein</a>&nbsp;(2011)</li>
<li><a href="David_Wood_(journalist)" title="David Wood (journalist)">David Wood</a>&nbsp;(2012)</li>
<li><a href="Lisa_Song" title="Lisa Song">Lisa Song</a>, <a href="Elizabeth_McGowan" title="Elizabeth McGowan">Elizabeth McGowan</a> &amp; <a href="David_Hasemyer" title="David Hasemyer">David Hasemyer</a>&nbsp;(2013)</li>
<li><a href="David_Philipps" title="David Philipps">David Philipps</a>&nbsp;(2014)</li>
<li><a href="Carol_D._Leonnig" title="Carol D. Leonnig">Carol D. Leonnig</a>&nbsp;(2015)</li>
<li>Staff of <i><a href="The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i>&nbsp;(2016)</li>
<li><a href="David_Fahrenthold" title="David Fahrenthold">David Fahrenthold</a>&nbsp;(2017)</li>
<li>Staff of <i><a href="The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> &amp; Staff of <i><a href="The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i>&nbsp;(2018)</li>
<li>Staff of <i><a href="The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a></i>&nbsp;(2019)</li>
<li><a href="Dominic_Gates" title="Dominic Gates">Dominic Gates</a>, Steve Miletich, Mike Baker &amp; Lewis Kamb of <i><a href="The_Seattle_Times" title="The Seattle Times">The Seattle Times</a></i> (2020)</li>
<li><a href="T._Christian_Miller" title="T. Christian Miller">T. Christian Miller</a>, <a href="Megan_Rose" title="Megan Rose">Megan Rose</a> &amp; Robert Faurtechi of <i><a href="ProPublica" title="ProPublica">ProPublica</a></i>&nbsp;(2020)</li>
<li>Staff of <i><a href="The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> (2022)</li>
<li>[Caroline Kitchener]] (2023)</li></ul>
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<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Steven_Erlanger" title="Steven Erlanger">Steven Erlanger</a> &nbsp;(1982)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Thomas_Friedman" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Friedman">Thomas Friedman</a>&nbsp;(1983)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">&nbsp;(1984)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Larry_Tye" title="Larry Tye">Larry Tye</a>&nbsp;(1985)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Blaine_Harden" title="Blaine Harden">Blaine Harden</a>&nbsp;(1986)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">Barbara Fischkin&nbsp;(1987)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Ira_Glass" title="Ira Glass">Ira Glass</a>&nbsp;(1988;&nbsp;co-winner)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">Alexis Muellner&nbsp;(1988;&nbsp;co-winner)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">Jonathan Schwartz&nbsp;(1988;&nbsp;co-winner)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Anne_Nelson" title="Anne Nelson">Anne Nelson</a>&nbsp;(1989)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">Peter Gumbel&nbsp;(1990)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="David_Remnick" title="David Remnick">David Remnick</a>&nbsp;(1991)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Steve_Coll" title="Steve Coll">Steve Coll</a>&nbsp;(1992)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Christiane_Amanpour" title="Christiane Amanpour">Christiane Amanpour</a>&nbsp;(1993)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">Pamela Burdman&nbsp;(1994)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Mitchell_Zuckoff" title="Mitchell Zuckoff">Mitchell Zuckoff</a>&nbsp;(1995)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="David_S._Rohde" title="David S. Rohde">David S. Rohde</a>&nbsp;(1996)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="C._J._Chivers" title="C. J. Chivers">C. J. Chivers</a>&nbsp;(1997)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">Alan Zarembo&nbsp;(1998)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Elizabeth_Rubin" title="Elizabeth Rubin">Elizabeth Rubin</a>&nbsp;(1999)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">Kevin Heldman&nbsp;(2000)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Michael_Finkel" title="Michael Finkel">Michael Finkel</a>&nbsp;(2001)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">Sumana Chatterjee&nbsp;(2002&nbsp;co-winner)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">Sudarsan Raghavan&nbsp;(2002 &nbsp;co-winner)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Philip_Pan" title="Philip Pan">Philip P. Pan</a>&nbsp;(2003)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="T._Christian_Miller" title="T. Christian Miller">T. Christian Miller</a>&nbsp;(2004)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Sharmeen_Obaid-Chinoy" title="Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy">Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy</a>&nbsp;(2005)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Edward_Wong" title="Edward Wong">Edward Wong</a>&nbsp;(2006)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Evan_Osnos" title="Evan Osnos">Evan Osnos</a>&nbsp;(2007)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Christof_Putzel" title="Christof Putzel">Christof Putzel</a>&nbsp;(2008)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Lydia_Polgreen" title="Lydia Polgreen">Lydia Polgreen</a>&nbsp;(2009)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Abbie_Boudreau" title="Abbie Boudreau">Abbie Boudreau</a>&nbsp;(2010)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Matt_Katz" title="Matt Katz">Matt Katz</a>&nbsp;(2011)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">Mattathias Schwartz&nbsp;(2012)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">Edythe McNamee&nbsp;(2013&nbsp;co-winner)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">John D. Sutter&nbsp;(2013&nbsp;co-winner)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Luke_Mogelson" title="Luke Mogelson">Luke Mogelson</a>&nbsp;(2014)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Matthieu_Aikins" title="Matthieu Aikins">Matthieu Aikins</a>&nbsp;(2015)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Adrian_Chen" title="Adrian Chen">Adrian Chen</a>&nbsp;(2016)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Ben_Taub_(journalist)" title="Ben Taub (journalist)">Ben Taub</a>&nbsp;(2017)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">Christina Goldbaum&nbsp;(2018)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Davey_Alba" title="Davey Alba">Davey Alba</a>&nbsp;(2019)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Brett_Murphy" title="Brett Murphy">Brett Murphy</a>&nbsp;(2020)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">Chao Deng&nbsp;(2021)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">Erika Lantz&nbsp;(2022&nbsp;co-winner)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">Elin Lantz Lesser&nbsp;(2022&nbsp;co-winner)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Vasilisa_Stepanenko" title="Vasilisa Stepanenko">Vasilisa Stepanenko</a>&nbsp;(2023)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">Renata Brito&nbsp;(2024)</span></li></ul>
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