Finalist: Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History , by S.C. Gwynne (Scribner )
A memorable examination of the longest and most brutal of all the wars between European settlers and a single Indian tribe.
Winners
Prize Winner in General Nonfiction in 2011:
Siddhartha Mukherjee
An elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal, into the long history of an insidious disease that, despite treatment breakthroughs, still bedevils medical science.
General Nonfiction
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in General Nonfiction in 2011:
Nicholas Carr
A thought provoking exploration of the Internet's physical and cultural consequences, rendering highly technical material intelligible to the general reader.
The Jury
The Jury
Arnold R. Isaacs
author and former correspondent
Michael Skube(chair )*
journalism professor,
Robert Lee Hotz
science writer
Winners in General Nonfiction
David E. Hoffman
A well documented narrative that examines the terrifying doomsday competition between two superpowers and how weapons of mass destruction still imperil humankind.
Douglas A. Blackmon
A precise and eloquent work that examines a deliberate system of racial suppression and that rescues a multitude of atrocities from virtual obscurity.
2011 Prize Winners
Jennifer Egan
An inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed.
Ron Chernow
A sweeping, authoritative portrait of an iconic leader learning to master his private feelings in order to fulfill his public duties.
Mike Keefe
For his widely ranging cartoons that employ a loose, expressive style to send strong, witty messages.
Kay Ryan
A body of work spanning 45 years, witty, rebellious and yet tender, a treasure trove of an iconoclastic and joyful mind.