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    The Pulitzer Prize for Biography is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. The award honors "a distinguished and appropriately documented biography by an American author."[1] Award winners received $15,000 USD.[1]

    From 1917 to 2022, this prize was known as the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and was awarded to a distinguished biography, autobiography or memoir[2] by an American author or co-authors, published during the preceding calendar year. Thus it is one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year.[3]

    Recipients

    In its first 97 years to 2013, the Biography Pulitzer was awarded 97 times. Two were given in 1938, and none in 1962.[4]

    1910s-1940s

    Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners, 1917-1949[2]
    Year Author Title Ref.
    1917 Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall Julia Ward Howe
    1918 William Cabell Bruce Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed
    1919 Henry Adams The Education of Henry Adams
    1920 Albert J. Beveridge The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols.
    1921 Edward Bok The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After
    1922 Hamlin Garland A Daughter of the Middle Border
    1923 Burton J. Hendrick The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page
    1924 Michael I. Pupin From Immigrant to Inventor
    1925 M. A. Dewolfe Howe Barrett Wendell and His Letters
    1926 Harvey Cushing The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols.
    1927 Emory Holloway Whitman
    1928 Charles Edward Russell The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas
    1929 Burton J. Hendrick The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page
    1930 Marquis James The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston
    1931 Henry James Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University, 1869–1901
    1932 Henry F. Pringle Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography
    1933 Allan Nevins Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage
    1934 Tyler Dennett John Hay
    1935 Douglas S. Freeman R. E. Lee
    1936 Ralph Barton Perry The Thought and Character of William James
    1937 Allan Nevins Hamilton Fish
    1938 Marquis James Andrew Jackson, 2 vols.
    Odell Shepard Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott
    1939 Carl Van Doren Benjamin Franklin
    1940 Ray Stannard Baker Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII
    1941 Ola Elizabeth Winslow Jonathan Edwards, 1703–1758: a biography
    1942 Forrest Wilson Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
    1943 Samuel Eliot Morison Admiral of the Ocean Sea
    1944 Carleton Mabee The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse [5]
    1945 Russel Blaine Nye George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel
    1946 Linnie Marsh Wolfe Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir
    1947 William Allen White The Autobiography of William Allen White
    1948 Margaret Clapp Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow
    1949 Robert E. Sherwood Roosevelt and Hopkins

    1950s-1970s

    Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners, 1950-1979[2]
    Year Author Title Ref.
    1950 Samuel Flagg Bemis John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy
    1951 Margaret Louise Coit John C. Calhoun: American Portrait
    1952 Merlo J. Pusey Charles Evans Hughes
    1953 David J. Mays Edmund Pendleton 1721–1803
    1954 Charles A. Lindbergh The Spirit of St. Louis
    1955 William S. White The Taft Story
    1956 Talbot Faulkner Hamlin Benjamin Henry Latrobe
    1957 John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage [6]
    1958 Douglas Southall Freeman with John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth George Washington, vols. I-VII
    1959 Arthur Walworth Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet
    1960 Samuel Eliot Morison John Paul Jones
    1961 David Donald Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
    1962 No award presented[7]
    1963 Leon Edel Henry James
    1964 Walter Jackson Bate John Keats
    1965 Ernest Samuels Henry Adams, 3 vols.
    1966 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House [8]
    1967 Justin Kaplan Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain [9]
    1968 George F. Kennan Memoirs
    1969 Benjamin Lawrence Reid The Man from New York: John Quinn and His Friends
    1970 Thomas Harry Williams Huey Long [10]
    1971 Lawrance Thompson Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915–1938,
    1972 Joseph P. Lash Eleanor and Franklin
    1973 W. A. Swanberg Luce and His Empire
    1974 Louis Sheaffer O'Neill, Son and Artist
    1975 Robert Caro The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York [11]
    1976 R. W. B. Lewis Edith Wharton: A Biography
    1977 John E. Mack A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence
    1978 Walter Jackson Bate Samuel Johnson
    1979 Leonard Baker Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews

    1980s

    Entries from this point on include the finalists listed after the winner for each year.

    Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners and finalists, 1980-1989[2]
    Year Author Title Result Ref.
    1980 Edmund Morris The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Winner
    Ernest Samuels Bernard Berenson, The Making of a Connoisseur Finalist
    Meryle Secrest Being Bernard Berenson Finalist
    Geoffrey Wolff The Duke of Deception Finalist
    1981 Robert K. Massie Peter the Great: His Life and World Winner [12][13]
    Justin Kaplan Walt Whitman: A Life Finalist
    Ronald Steel Walter Lippmann and the American Century Finalist
    1982 William S. McFeely Grant: A Biography Winner [14]
    Gay Wilson Allen Waldo Emerson Finalist
    David McCullough Mornings on Horseback Finalist
    1983 Russell Baker Growing Up Winner [15]
    Ted Morgan Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry, 1874–1915 Finalist
    Richard Norton Smith Thomas E. Dewey and His Times Finalist
    1984 Louis R. Harlan Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915 Winner
    Fred Kaplan Thomas Carlyle: A Biography Finalist
    Kenneth Manning Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just Finalist
    1985 Kenneth Silverman The Life and Times of Cotton Mather Winner [16]
    Howard M. Feinstein Becoming William James Finalist
    Michael Mott The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton Finalist [17]
    1986 Elizabeth Frank Louise Bogan: A Portrait Winner
    John Hope Franklin George Washington Williams: A Biography Finalist
    Frida Scheps Weinstein A Hidden Childhood: A Jewish Girl's Sanctuary in a French Convent, 1942–1945 Finalist
    1987 David J. Garrow Bearing The Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Winner
    Joseph Frank Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860–1865 Finalist
    Leonard L. Richards The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams Finalist
    A.M. Sperber Murrow: His Life and Times Finalist
    1988 David Herbert Donald Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe Winner
    Kenneth S. Lynn Hemingway Finalist
    John Owen McCormick George Santayana: A Biography Finalist
    1989 Richard Ellmann Oscar Wilde Winner
    Peter Gay Freud: A Life for Our Time Finalist
    Arnold Rampersad The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II, 1941–1967: I Dream a World Finalist [18]
    Neil Sheehan A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Finalist

    1990s

    Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners and finalists, 1990-1999[2]
    Year Author(s) Title Result Ref.
    1990 Sebastian de Grazia Machiavelli in Hell Winner
    Jill Ker Conway The Road from Coorain Finalist
    Reynolds Price Clear Pictures: First Loves, First Guides Finalist
    Geoffrey C. Ward A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt Finalist
    1991 Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith Jackson Pollock: An American Saga Winner [19]
    Patricia O'Toole The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends 1880–1918 Finalist
    Joseph Frazier Wall Alfred I. Du Pont: The Man and His Family Finalist
    1992 Lewis B. Puller Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller Jr. Winner
    William S. McFeely Frederick Douglass Finalist
    Michael Shelden Orwell: The Authorized Biography Finalist
    1993 David McCullough Truman Winner [20]
    James Gleick Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman Finalist
    Walter Isaacson Kissinger: A Biography Finalist
    1994 David Levering Lewis W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919 Winner [21]
    Deborah Baker In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding Finalist
    Edmund White Genet: A Biography Finalist
    1995 Joan D. Hedrick Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life Winner
    Roger K. Newman Hugo Black: A Biography Finalist
    Stacy Schiff Saint-Exupery: A Biography Finalist [22]
    1996 Jack Miles God: A Biography Winner
    John Loughery John Sloan: Painter and Rebel Finalist
    Maynard Solomon Mozart: A Life Finalist [23]
    1997 Frank McCourt Angela's Ashes: A Memoir Winner
    Kim Barnes In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country Finalist
    Hershel Parker Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 1, 1819–1851 Finalist
    1998 Katharine Graham Personal History Winner [24][25]
    James H. Jones Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public-Private Life Finalist
    Sam Tanenhaus Whittaker Chambers: A Biography Finalist
    1999 A. Scott Berg Lindbergh Winner [26][27]
    Francine du Plessix Gray At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life Finalist
    Sylvia Nasar A Beautiful Mind Finalist

    2000s

    Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners and finalists, 2000-2009[2]
    Year Author(s) Title Result
    2000 Stacy Schiff Vera, Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov Winner [22]
    Bobbie Ann Mason Clear Springs: A Memoir Finalist
    Dava Sobel Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love Finalist
    2001 David Levering Lewis W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963 Winner [28]
    H.W. Brands The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin Finalist
    Christoph Wolff Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician Finalist
    2002 David McCullough John Adams Winner [20]
    Jimmy Carter An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood Finalist
    Jean Edward Smith Grant Finalist [29]
    2003 Robert Caro Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Winner
    Nicholas Dawidoff The Fly Swatter: A Portrait of an Exceptional Character Finalist
    Lewis Lockwood Beethoven: The Music and the Life Finalist
    2004 William Taubman Khrushchev: The Man and His Era Winner
    James Gleick Isaac Newton Finalist
    Hayden Herrera Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work Finalist
    2005 Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan de Kooning: An American Master Winner
    Stephen Greenblatt Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare Finalist
    William Souder Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America Finalist
    2006 Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer Winner
    Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking Finalist
    Megan Marshall The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism Finalist [30]
    2007 Debby Applegate The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher Winner
    Arthur H. Cash John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty Finalist [31]
    David Nasaw Andrew Carnegie Finalist
    2008 John Matteson Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father Winner
    Martin Duberman The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein Finalist
    Zachary Leader The Life of Kingsley Amis Finalist
    2009 Jon Meacham American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House Winner [32][33]
    H.W. Brands Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Finalist
    Steve Coll The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century Finalist

    2010s

    Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners and finalists, 2010-2019[2]
    Year Author(s) Title Result Ref.
    2010 T.J. Stiles The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt Winner [34]
    Blake Bailey Cheever: A Life Finalist
    John Milton Cooper, Jr. Woodrow Wilson: A Biography Finalist
    2011 Ron Chernow Washington: A Life Winner [35][36]
    Alan Brinkley The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century Finalist
    Michael O'Brien Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon Finalist
    2012 John Lewis Gaddis George F. Kennan: An American Life Winner [37][38]
    Mary Gabriel Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution Finalist [38]
    Manning Marable Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention Finalist [38]
    2013 Tom Reiss The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo Winner [39]
    Michael Gorra Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece Finalist [39]
    David Nasaw The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy Finalist [39]
    2014 Megan Marshall Margaret Fuller: A New American Life Winner [40][41]
    Leo Damrosch Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World Finalist
    Jonathan Sperber Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life Finalist
    2015 David I. Kertzer The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe Winner [42][43]
    Thomas Brothers Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism Finalist
    Stephen Kotkin Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928 Finalist
    2016 William Finnegan Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life Winner [44][45]
    Elizabeth Alexander The Light of the World: A Memoir Finalist
    T.J. Stiles Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America Finalist
    2017 Hisham Matar The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between Winner [46][47]
    Susan Faludi In the Darkroom Finalist
    Paul Kalanithi When Breath Becomes Air Finalist
    2018 Caroline Fraser Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder Winner [48][49]
    John A. Farrell Richard Nixon: The Life Finalist [48]
    Kay Redfield Jamison Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character Finalist [48]
    2019 Jeffrey C. Stewart The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke Winner [50][51]
    Max Boot The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam Finalist [50]
    Caroline Weber Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle Paris Finalist [50]

    2020s

    Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners and finalists, 2020-present[2]
    Year Author(s) Work Result Ref
    2020 Benjamin Moser Sontag: Her Life and Work Winner [52][53][54]
    George Packer Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century Finalist [52]
    Deirdre Bair Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me Finalist [52]
    2021 Les Payne and Tamara Payne The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X Winner [55][56][57]
    Heather Clark Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath Finalist [55]
    Amy Stanley Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World Finalist [55]
    2022 Winfred Rembert and Erin I. Kelly Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South Winner [58][59][60]
    Richard Zenith Pessoa: A Biography Finalist [58]
    Janice P. Nimura The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine Finalist [58]
    2023 Beverly Gage G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century Winner [61][62]
    Jennifer Homans Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century Finalist [61]
    Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice Finalist [61]

    Repeat winners

    Ten people have won the Pulitzer for Biography or Autobiography twice:

    W. A. Swanberg was selected by the Pulitzer board in 1962 and 1973; however, the trustees of Columbia University (then responsible for conferral of the awards) overturned the proposed 1962 prize for Citizen Hearst.[7]

    See also

    • Biography portal

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