THE PULITZER PRIZE ARCHIVE VOL. 9: GENERAL NONFICTION AWARDS 1962-1993
München [Munich]: K. G. Saur, 1996. Octavo, lii, 362 pages. In Very Good condition. In light blue full cloth binding with black titling. Boards show light shelving wear, with mild rubbing along edges, at corners, and at the head and tail. Text block is lightly scuffed on the bottom edge. Interior clean. Shelved in Room F.
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Special Collections
Price: $100
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This book, which is part of a larger series collecting Pulitzer Prize winners, collects the recipients of the award in the General Nonfiction category from 1962-1993. This was Neil Sheehan's personal copy; Sheehan won the Pulitzer for General Nonfiction in 1989, and his entry appears on page 299, followed by an excerpt from his winning book, A Bright Shining Lie.
Second Story Books is honored to offer this item from the personal collection of Neil and Susan Sheehan. Neil Sheehan (1936–2021) and Susan Sheehan (1937-2026) were a distinguished husband-and-wife team whose careers helped define American literary journalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Neil Sheehan, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The New York Times, is best known for his role in bringing the Pentagon Papers to public attention and for his landmark book "A Bright Shining Lie", while Susan Sheehan built a parallel reputation as a leading voice at The New Yorker, crafting deeply reported narrative nonfiction on subjects ranging from mental health to social institutions, earning her own Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Their longstanding ties to major publications, particularly The New Yorker, placed them at the center of an influential cultural and intellectual network, and the books from their library carry added provenance through this close connection to the magazine’s editorial and artistic community.