Finalist: Looking for a Ship , by John McPhee (Farrar Straus Giroux )
Winners
Prize Winner in General Nonfiction in 1991:
Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson
General Nonfiction
The Jury
The Jury
Robert Wyatt(Chair)
Book Editor, The Tennessean; Professor of Journalism, Middle Tennessee State University
Annie Dillard*
Writer-in-Residence, Wesleyan University
Richard Rhodes*
Writer
Winners in General Nonfiction
1991 Prize Winners
Natalie Angier
For her compelling and illuminating reports on a variety of scientific topics.
Jim Hoagland
For searching and prescient columns on events leading up to the Gulf War and on the political problems of Mikhail Gorbachev.
David Shaw
For his critiques of the way in which the media, including his own paper, reported the McMartin Pre-School child molestation case.