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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Winner of the Olga Amsterdamska Award, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology
Finalist for the PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association of American PublishersOne of BBC Sky at Night Magazine's Best Astronomy and Space Books of 2019
One of Nature's Top Ten Books of 2019
Winner of the James P. Hanlan Book Prize, New England Historical Association
2019 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
Winner of a Catalogue Curatorial Award for Excellence, Association of Art Museum Curators
Winner of the Jervis-Shroeder Best Book Award
One of the Financial Times' Summer Books of 2019: Politics
One of Medium.com’s Books of the Year 2017One of The Times Literary Supplement’s Books of the Year 2017
One of the Forbes.com “Great Anthropology and History Books of 2017” (chosen by Kristina Killgrove)
One of The Federalist’s Notable Books for 2017
Honorable Mention for the 2018 PROSE Award in Classics, Association of American Publishers
One of Strategy + Business's Best Business Books in Economics for 2018
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
Winner of the Roland H. Bainton Book Prize for Art and Music History, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference
Honorable Mention for the BAAS Book Prize, British Association for American Studies
Shortlisted for the BISA Susan Strange Best Book Prize, British International Studies Association
Winner of the Otto Gründler Book Prize, The Medieval Institute at Western Michigan UniversityWinner of the Beatrice White Prize, The English Association, University of Leicester
Winner of the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, The British Academy
Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, The Wolfson Foundation
Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown, Historical Writers’ Association
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Biography and Autobiography, Association of American Publishers
One of The Times' Best Literary Non-Fiction Books of 2019
One of the Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2019
One of the Sunday Times' Best Literary Books of 2019
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
One of New Statesman's Books of the Year 2020