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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One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017
Winner of the 2018 Ralph Gomory Prize, Business History ConferenceEdward J. Balleisen, Winner of the 2018 Harold F. Williamson Prize, Business History Conference
One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017
One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017
One of Bloomberg Opinion's Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2018 (Stephen L. Carter)
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Winner of the John Gilmary Shea Prize, American Catholic Historical AssociationWinner of the Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion
A Forbes Best Book About or Set in New York City
Winner of the 2016 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, Consumers and Consumption Section of the American Sociological AssociationWinner of the 2017 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association
Winner of a 2017 Gourmand World Cookbook Award, National Winner in “Culinary History”
Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Literature, Association of American Publishers
Honorable Mention for the 2018 Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Honorable Mention for the ASLE Ecocritical Book Award, Association for the Study of Literature and EnvironmentHonorable Mention for the 2017 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association