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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Shortlisted for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies
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
Shortlisted for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies
Syukuro Manabe, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
Finalist for the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art Association
Honorable Mention for the J. Willard Hurst Book Prize, Law and Society Association
Winner of the Sonya Rudikoff Award, Northeast Victorian Studies AssociationWinner of the Courage to Dream Book Prize, American Psychoanalytic Association
Honorable Mention for the Best Scholarly Book, Global and Transnational Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
Winner of the ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award, Association for Information Science and Technology
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016
One of First Things' Favorite Books of 2018Winner of a 2019 Award of Merit in History, Christianity Today Book Awards
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
Winner of the 2018 Book Award for Excellence in Missiology, American Society of Missiology
Shortlisted for the Catholic Herald Book Award in History
Co-Winner of the 2015 AIP Science Writing Award for Books, American Institute of PhysicsOne of Physics World's Top Ten Books of the Year for 2014
One of The Guardian’s Best Popular Physical Science Books of 2014, chosen by GrrlScientist