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 Woodrow Wilson Foundation AwardWinner of the 2017 Philip E. Converse Book Award, Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Section of the American Political Science Association
Selected as a Publishers Weekly 2017 Best Book in Religion
Winner of the 2018 Don K. Price Award, Science, Technology & Environmental Politics Section of the American Political Science AssociationWinner of the 2018 Louis Brownlow Book Award, National Academy of Public Administration
Co-Winner of the 2016 Schumpeter Prize Competition, International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society
One of Bloomberg View’s “Five Books to Change Conservatives’ Minds,” chosen by Cass SunsteinOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016
Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Economics, Association of American Publishers
Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2016
One of Zócalo’s 10 Favorite Books of 2016
Winner of a 2018 Charles Goodwin Award of Merit, Society for Classical Studies
Winner of the 2018 Gold Medal in Women / Minorities in Business, Axiom Business Book AwardsShortlisted for the 2019 CMI Management Book of the Year in “Aspiring Leaders,” Chartered Management Institute
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award in Popular Science & Popular Mathematics, Association of American PublishersOne of British Journal of Photography’s Chiara Bardelli Nonino Best Books of 2017
Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2018
Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award in Textbook / Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Association of American PublishersKip S. Thorne, Co-Winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics
Roger D. Blandford, Co-Winner of the 2016 Crafoord Prize in Astronomy and Winner of the 2020 Shaw Prize in Astronomy
Winner of the 2017 W.J.M. Mackenzie Book Prize, Political Studies AssociationOne of The Guardian’s Best Politics Books of 2016, chosen by Gaby Hinsliff