The first of these was both a bestseller and a critical success, winning the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.

What's funny is that when it comes to general nonfiction, Americans love a good disaster, whether tales of drowned sailors or doomed mountain climbers.

Being Old in America, which won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.

Over the next decade, she expanded the company's range of titles from historical romances to both paperback and hard-cover novels and general nonfiction.

Caputo has written 15 books, including two memoirs, five books of general nonfiction, and eight novels.

A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields.

"But we really can't see people in the middle - your typical reader of novels or general nonfiction - taking to reading on a screen any time soon."

This work won her the National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction in 1991.

The awards for books published in 1991 are in five categories: fiction, general nonfiction, biography and autobiography, poetry and criticism.

About 200 books were nominated for the 1984 award, when the single award for general nonfiction was restored.