- Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
The
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author.cite web | title = Pulitzer Prize Winners: Biography or Autobiography | publisher =pulitzer.org | url = http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Biography+or+Autobiography | accessdate = 2008-10-01 ]* 2008: "" by
John Matteson
* 2007: "The Most Famous Man in America " byDebby Applegate
* 2006: "" byKai Bird andMartin J. Sherwin
* 2005: "" by Mark Stevens andAnnalyn Swan
* 2004: "" (ISBN 0-393-05144-7) byWilliam Taubman
* 2003: "Master of the Senate : The Years of Lyndon Johnson" byRobert Caro
* 2002: "John Adams" byDavid McCullough
* 2001: "" byDavid Levering Lewis
* 2000: "Vera, Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov " byStacy Schiff
* 1999: "Lindbergh" byA. Scott Berg
* 1998: "Personal History " byKatharine Graham
* 1997: "" by Frank McCourt
* 1996: "" byJack Miles
* 1995: "" byJoan D. Hedrick
* 1994: "" byDavid Levering Lewis
* 1993: "Truman" byDavid McCullough
* 1992: "" byLewis B. Puller
* 1991: "" bySteven Naifeh andGregory White Smith
* 1990: "Machiavelli in Hell " bySebastian de Grazia
* 1989: "Oscar Wilde" byRichard Ellmann
* 1988: "" byDavid Herbert Donald
* 1987: "" byDavid J. Garrow
* 1986: "" byElizabeth Frank
* 1985: "The Life and Times of Cotton Mather " byKenneth Silverman
* 1984: "" byLouis R. Harlan
* 1983: "Growing Up" byRussell Baker
* 1982: "" byWilliam S. McFeely
* 1981: "" byRobert K. Massie
* 1980: "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt " by Edmund Morris
* 1979: "" byLeonard Baker
* 1978: "Samuel Johnson" byWalter Jackson Bate
* 1977: "" byJohn E. Mack
* 1976: "" byR. W. B. Lewis
* 1975: "The Power Broker : Robert Moses and the Fall of New York" byRobert Caro
* 1974: "O'Neill, Son and Artist " byLouis Sheaffer
* 1973: "Luce and His Empire " byW. A. Swanberg
* 1972: "Eleanor and Franklin" byJoseph P. Lash
* 1971: "" byLawrence Thompson
* 1970: "Huey Long" byThomas Harry Williams
* 1969: "" byBenjamin Lawrence Reid
* 1968: "Memoirs" byGeorge Frost Kennan
* 1967: "Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain " byJustin Kaplan
* 1966: "A Thousand Days" byArthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
* 1965: "Henry Adams", 3 vols., byErnest Samuels
* 1964: "John Keats" byWalter Jackson Bate
* 1963: "Henry James" byLeon Edel
* 1962: no award given
* 1961: "Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War " by David Donald
* 1960: "John Paul Jones" bySamuel Eliot Morison
* 1959: "Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet " byArthur Walworth
* 1958: "George Washington, Volumes I-VI " byDouglas Southall Freeman , and "Volume VII", written byJohn Alexander Carroll and MaryWells Ashworth after Dr. Freeman's death in 1953
* 1957: "Profiles in Courage " byJohn F. Kennedy
* 1956: "Benjamin Henry Latrobe" byTalbot Faulkner Hamlin
* 1955: "The Taft Story " byWilliam S. White
* 1954: "The Spirit of St. Louis" byCharles A. Lindbergh
* 1953: "Edmund Pendleton 1721-1803 " byDavid J. Mays
* 1952: "Charles Evans Hughes" byMerlo J. Pusey
* 1951: "" byMargaret Louise Coit
* 1950: "John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy " bySamuel Flagg Bemis
* 1949: "Roosevelt and Hopkins " byRobert E. Sherwood
* 1948: "" byMargaret Clapp
* 1947: "The Autobiography of William Allen White " byWilliam Allen White
* 1946: "Son of the Wilderness " byLinnie Marsh Wolfe
* 1945: "" byRussel Blaine Nye
* 1944: "" byCarleton Mabee
* 1943: "Admiral of the Ocean Sea " bySamuel Eliot Morison
* 1942: "Crusader in Crinoline " byForrest Wilson
* 1941: "Johnathan Edward" byOla Elizabeth Winslow
* 1940: "Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII " byRay Stannard Baker
* 1939: "Benjamin Franklin" by Carl Van Doren
* 1938: "Andrew Jackson", 2 vols. byMarquis James
* 1938: "Pedlar's Progress " byOdell Shepard
* 1937: "Hamilton Fish" byAllan Nevins
* 1936: "The Thought and Character of William James " byRalph Barton Perry
* 1935: "R. E. Lee" byDouglas S. Freeman
* 1934: "John Hay" byTyler Dennett
* 1933: "Grover Cleveland" byAllan Nevins
* 1932: "Theodore Roosevelt (book) " byHenry F. Pringle
* 1931: "Charles W. Eliot" byHenry James (1879-1947)
* 1930: "The Raven" byMarquis James
* 1929: "" byBurton J. Hendrick
* 1928: "The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas " byCharles Edward Russell
* 1927: "Whitman" byEmory Holloway
* 1926: "The Life of Sir William Osler ", 2 vols. byHarvey Cushing
* 1925: "Barrett Wendell and His Letters " byM. A. Dewolfe Howe
* 1924: "From Immigrant to Inventor " byMichael I. Pupin
* 1923: "The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page " byBurton J. Hendrick
* 1922: "A Daughter of the Middle Border " byHamlin Garland
* 1921: "The Americanization of Edward Bok " byEdward Bok
* 1920: "The Life of John Marshall ", 4 vols. byAlbert J. Beveridge
* 1919: "The Education of Henry Adams " byHenry Adams
* 1918: "Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed " byWilliam Cabell Bruce
* 1917: "Julia Ward Howe" byLaura E. Richards andMaud Howe Elliott , assisted by Florence Howe HallReferences
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