Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction Winners: Douglas Hofstadter, Carl Sagan, E. O. Wilson, Barbara W. Tuchman, Jared Diamond

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 61. Chapters: Douglas Hofstadter, Carl Sagan, E. O. Wilson, Barbara W. Tuchman, Jared Diamond, Bert Holldobler, Jonathan Weiner, John McPhee, Tracy Kidder, David Brion Davis, Samantha Power, Richard Hofstadter, Erik Erikson, Will Durant, Robert Coles, Annie Dillard, Studs Terkel, Richard Rhodes, Theodore H. White, Edwin Way Teale, Anne Applebaum, Saul Friedlander, Garry Wills, J. Anthony Lukas, David Remnick, Rene Dubos, Joseph Lelyveld, Robert Neil Butler, Steve Coll, Daniel Yergin, Caroline Elkins, Ernest Becker, John Toland, Lawrence Wright, Neil Sheehan, Howard Mumford Jones, John W. Dower, Paul Starr, Dale Maharidge, Frances FitzGerald, Carl Emil Schorske, Tina Rosenberg, Michael Williamson, Susan Sheehan, Diane McWhorter, Douglas A. Blackmon, Ariel Durant, David K. Shipler, William W. Warner, Richard Kluger, Herbert P. Bix. Excerpt: Carl Edward Sagan (English pronunciation: ) (November 9, 1934 - December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in the space and natural sciences. During his lifetime, he published more than 600 scientific papers and popular articles and was author, co-author, or editor of more than 20 books. In his works, he advocated skeptical inquiry and the scientific method. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Sagan became world-famous for his popular science books and for the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which he narrated and co-wrote. A book to accompany the program was also published. Sagan also wrote the novel Contact, the basis for the 1997 film of the same name. Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, New York City, to a Ukrainian Jewish family. His father, Sam Sagan, was an immigrant garment worker from Kamenets-Podolsk, Ukraine; his moth...