Awards
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.
Nobel Prize–Winning Authors
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One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Nonfiction Books of 2018Smithsonian: Best History Books of 2018
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
Finalist for the Marfield Prize (The National Award for Arts Writing), Arts Club of Washington
Honorable Mention for the 2018 NAVSA Book Prize, North American Victorian Studies Association
One of The Guardian’s Favourite Reads of 2017 as chosen by scientists
One of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2017
Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies
Winner of the Philip Schaff Prize, American Society of Church History
One of the Financial Times' Best Books of the Year: Critics' PicksOne of Asian Review of Books' Books of the Year (Biography & Memoir)
One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017
Honorable Mention for the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Times Critics' Top Art Books of 2019
One of Pop Matter's Best Nonfiction Books of 2019