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Daniel Yergin won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1992 for The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, published in 1991. The book also won the Eccles Prize for the best book on economics written for a general audience and sold around 700,000 copies in 17 languages.
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power traces how oil shaped the modern world and global geopolitics. It became a number-one bestseller and was adapted into a PBS and BBC television series seen by around 100 million viewers worldwide.
Daniel Yergin received his B.A. from Yale University in 1968 and his Ph.D. in international history from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He also holds honorary doctorates from Dartmouth College, Colorado School of Mines, the University of Houston, and the University of Missouri.
Cambridge Energy Research Associates, known as CERA, is an energy research and consulting firm that Yergin co-founded with Jamey Rosenfield in 1982. The company was started with the purchase of a two-dollar file cabinet from The Salvation Army and operated as a quasi think-tank and source of energy industry analysis until IHS Inc. acquired it in 2004.
Yergin predicted that future oil production would plateau rather than peak sharply. He argued in The Quest and in a 2011 essay in The Wall Street Journal that rising prices would moderate demand while also stimulating new production, preventing a sharp peak.
Yergin received the 1997 United States Energy Award for lifelong achievements in energy, the first James Schlesinger Medal for Energy Security from the U.S. Department of Energy in 2014, the first Carnot Prize from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015, and the Centennial Lifetime Achievement Award from the United States Energy Association in 2024.