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. 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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A New Scientist Book of the Year
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

One of Waterstones' Books of the Year 2020: Popular Science
Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, PEN America
Longlisted for the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books for Young Adults



Co-Winner of the AIP Science Communication Book Award, American Institute of Physics
Longlisted for the Young Adult Science Book Award, AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books
Finalist for the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prizes for Excellence in Science Books, Young Adult Science Books

Winner of the 2017 British Psychological Society Book Awards, Best Academic Monograph
Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award in Biological Science, Association of American Publishers
One of Forbes.com’s 10 Best Biology Books of 2017, chosen by GrrlScientist
One of Forbes.com’s 10 Best Biology Books of 2017, chosen by GrrlScientist
Selected for Askblog’s Books of the year 2017
Selected for Askblog’s Books of the year 2017

Winner of the W.W. Howells Book Award, Biological Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association



One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014


