Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Updated September 9, 2022 |
Infoplease Staff
- 1917
- Julia Ward Howe, Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall
- 1918
- Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, William Cabell Bruce
- 1919
- The Education of Henry Adams, Henry Adams
- 1920
- The Life of John Marshall, Albert J. Beveridge
- 1921
- The Americanization of Edward Bok, Edward Bok
- 1922
- A Daughter of the Middle Border, Hamlin
Garland
- 1923
- The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Burton J. Hendrick
- 1924
- From Immigrant to Inventor, Michael Idvorsky Pupin
- 1925
- Barrett Wendell and His Letters, M. A. DeWolfe Howe
- 1926
- The Life of Sir William Osler, Harvey Cushing
- 1927
- Whitman, Emory Holloway
- 1928
- The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas, Charles Edward Russell
- 1929
- The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Burton J.
Hendrick
- 1930
- The Raven, Marquis James
- 1931
- Charles W. Eliot, Henry James
- 1932
- Theodore Roosevelt, Henry F. Pringle
- 1933
- Grover Cleveland, Allan Nevins
- 1934
- John Hay, Tyler Dennett
- 1935
- R. E. Lee, Douglas S. Freeman
- 1936
- The Thought and Character of William James, Ralph Barton Perry
- 1937
- Hamilton Fish, Allan Nevins
- 1938
- Pedlar's Progress, Odell Shepard; Andrew Jackson, Marquis James
- 1939
- Benjamin Franklin, Carl Van Doren
- 1940
- Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters, Vols. VII and VIII, Ray Stannard Baker
- 1941
- Jonathan Edwards, Ola E. Winslow
- 1942
- Crusader in Crinoline, Forrest Wilson
- 1943
- Admiral of the Ocean Sea, Samuel Eliot
Morison
- 1944
- The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse, Carleton Mabee
- 1945
- George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel, Russel Blaine Nye
- 1946
- Son of the Wilderness, Linnie Marsh Wolfe
- 1947
- The Autobiography of William Allen White
- 1948
- Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow, Margaret Clapp
- 1949
- Roosevelt and Hopkins, Robert E. Sherwood
- 1950
- John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy, Samuel Flagg Bemis
- 1951
- John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, Margaret Louise Coit
- 1952
- Charles Evans Hughes, Merlo J. Pusey
- 1953
- Edmund Pendleton, 1721–1803, David J. Mays
- 1954
- The Spirit of St. Louis, Charles A. Lindbergh
- 1955
- The Taft Story, William S. White
- 1956
- Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Talbot F. Hamlin
- 1957
- Profiles in Courage, John F. Kennedy
- 1958
- George Washington, Douglas Southall Freeman (Vols. 1–6) and John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth (Vol. 7)
- 1959
- Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet, Arthur Walworth
- 1960
- John Paul Jones, Samuel Eliot Morison
- 1961
- Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, David Donald
- 1963
- Henry James: Vol. II, The Conquest of London, 1870–1881; Vol. III, The Middle Years, 1881–1895, Leon Edel
- 1964
- John Keats, Walter Jackson Bate
- 1965
- Henry Adams (3 Vols.), Ernest Samuels
- 1966
- A Thousand Days, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
- 1967
- Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, Justin Kaplan
- 1968
- Memoirs, 1925–1950, George F. Kennan
- 1969
- The Man From New York, B. L. Reid
- 1970
- Huey Long, T. Harry Williams
- 1971
- Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915–1938, Lawrence Thompson
- 1972
- Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers, Joseph P. Lash
- 1973
- Luce and His Empire, W. A. Swanberg
- 1974
- O'Neill, Son and Artist, Louis Sheaffer
- 1975
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Robert A. Caro
- 1976
- Edith Wharton: A Biography, Richard W. B. Lewis
- 1977
- A Prince of Our Disorder, John E. Mack
- 1978
- Samuel Johnson, Walter Jackson Bate
- 1979
- Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews, Leonard Baker
- 1980
- The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund
Morris
- 1981
- Peter the Great, Robert K. Massie
- 1982
- Grant: A Biography, William S. McFeely
- 1983
- Growing Up, Russell Baker
- 1984
- Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan
- 1985
- The Life and Times of Cotton Mather, Kenneth Silverman
- 1986
- Louise Bogan: A Portrait, Elizabeth Frank
- 1987
- Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, David J. Garrow
- 1988
- Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe, David Herbert Donald
- 1989
- Oscar Wilde, Richard Ellmann
- 1990
- Machiavelli in Hell, Sebastian de Grazia
- 1991
- Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
- 1992
- Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet, Lewis B. Puller, Jr.
- 1993
- Truman, David McCullough
- 1994
- W. E. B. DuBois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919, David Levering Lewis
- 1995
- Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life, Joan D. Hedrick
- 1996
- God: A Biography, Jack Miles
- 1997
- Angela's Ashes: A Memoir, Frank McCourt
- 1998
- Personal History, Katharine Graham
- 1999
- Lindbergh, A. Scott Berg
- 2000
- Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), Stacy Schiff
- 2001
- W. E. B. DuBois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963, David Levering Lewis
- 2002
- John Adams, David McCullough
- 2003
- Master of the Senate, Robert A. Caro
- 2004
- Krushchev: The Man and His Era, William Taubman
- 2005
- de Kooning: An American Master, Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
- 2006
- American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
- 2007
- The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, Debby Applegate
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