Awards & Recognition
Princeton University Press books have won numerous awards, including six Pulitzer Prizes, five Bancroft Prizes, three National Book Awards, and hundreds of major awards from academic organizations. Dozens of Press authors have been awarded the most prestigious academic prizes in the world, including the Nobel Prize in economics, physics, chemistry, medicine, and literature, the Fields Medal, and the Holberg Prize. To inquire about our awards program, including for nomination calls and author requests, please contact Steve_Stillman@press.princeton.edu.
Nobel Prize–Winning Authors
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A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year
Co-Winner of the Max Weber Book Award, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological AssociationWinner of the Silver Medal in Business Theory, Axiom Business Book Awards
Silver Medalist for the Nature Guidebook Award, National Outdoor Book Awards
One of The Art Newspaper's Favourite Books of 2019
A Birdwatcher's Yearbook Best Bird Book of the YearSixth Place for the 2022 BB/BTO Best Bird Book of the Year, British Birds and the British Trust for Ornithology
A Library Journal Fall 2021 Nonfiction MustA Barnes & Noble Best History Book of the Year
One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Nonfiction Books of the Year
One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Biographies of the Year
A Waterstones Best History Book of 2021
A CapX Book of the Year
One of Amazon.com's 2014 Best Books of the Year: Arts & PhotographyOne of nbc.com’s "Holiday Gift Books Span the Science Spectrum" for 2014
Winner of the Nature Guidebook Award, National Outdoor Book Awards
An Economist Book of the Year
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2021Honorable Mention for the Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize
One of American Institute of Graphic Arts’ Top 50 Books / 50 Covers of 2021
Winner of the 2000 Patrick F. Quinn Award of the Poe Studies Association, Modern Language Association