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
Browse Awards2015
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Government and Politics, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American HistoriansWinner of the Richard Slatten Award for Excellence in Virginia Biography, Virginia Museum of History & Culture (Virginia Historical Society)
One of Amazon's Best Books of 2020 in Business and LeadershipWinner of the Spur Award for Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction, Western Writers of America
Finalist for the Reading the West Book Award in Adult Narrative Nonfiction
One of The Atlantic's Best Books of 2018
Winner of the Whitley Award for Best Field Guide, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Government and Politics, Association of American PublishersWinner of the American Political Science Association Best Book Award
Co-Winner of the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section Best Book Award, American Political Science Association
Co-Winner of the Giovanni Sartori Best Book Award, Qualitative Methods Section of the American Political Science Association
2019 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading ListOne of Foreign Affairs' Best Books of 2020
Shortlisted for Apollo's Book of the Year 2020
One of the Financial Times' Summer Books of 2020: ArchitectureWinner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion, Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
Winner of the President’s Award for Research in History and Theory, Royal Institute of British Architects
One of the Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2020Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Writing Based on Archival Material
Finalist for the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art Association