Pulitzer Prizes — Biography

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  Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts

  2025PulitzerBiography
• Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo

  2024PulitzerBiography
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  King: A Life by Jonathan Eig

  2024PulitzerBiography
• G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage

  2023PulitzerBiography
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  Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South by the late Winfred Rembert as told to Erin I. Kelly

  2022PulitzerBiography
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  The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by the late Les Payne and Tamara Payne

  2021PulitzerBiography
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  Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser

  2020PulitzerBiography
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  The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart

  2019PulitzerBiography
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  Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser

  2018PulitzerBiography
• The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar

  2017PulitzerBiography
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  Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan

  2016PulitzerBiography
• The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer

  2015PulitzerBiography
• Margaret Fuller: A New American Life by Megan Marshall

  2014PulitzerBiography
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  The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss

  2013PulitzerBiography
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  George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis

  2012PulitzerBiography
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  Washington : A Life by Ron Chernow

  2011PulitzerBiography
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  The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles

  2010PulitzerBiography
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  American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham

  2009PulitzerBiography
• Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson

  2008PulitzerBiography
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  The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate

  2007PulitzerBiography
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  American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

  2006PulitzerBiography
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  de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan

  2005PulitzerBiography
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  Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman

  2004PulitzerBiography
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  Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro

  2003PulitzerBiography
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  John Adams by David McCullough

  2002PulitzerBiography
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  W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis

  2001PulitzerBiography
• Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) by Stacy Schiff

  2000PulitzerBiography
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  Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg

  1999PulitzerBiography
• Personal History by Katharine Graham

  1998PulitzerBiography
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  Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt

  1997PulitzerBiography
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  God: A Biography by Jack Miles

  1996PulitzerBiography
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  Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life by Joan D. Hedrick

  1995PulitzerBiography
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  W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis

  1994PulitzerBiography
• Truman by David McCullough

  1993PulitzerBiography
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  Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet by Lewis B. Puller

  1992PulitzerBiography
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  Jackson Pollock by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith

  1991PulitzerBiography
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  Machiavelli in Hell by Sebastian de Grazia

  1990PulitzerBiography
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  Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann

  1989PulitzerBiography
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  Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald

  1988PulitzerBiography
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  Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow

  1987PulitzerBiography
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  Louise Bogan: A Portrait by Elizabeth Frank

  1986PulitzerBiography
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  The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman

  1985PulitzerBiography
• Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 by Louis R. Harlan

  1984PulitzerBiography
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  Growing Up by Russell Baker

  1983PulitzerBiography
• Grant: A Biography by William McFeely

  1982PulitzerBiography
• Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie

  1981PulitzerBiography
• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

  1980PulitzerBiography
• Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews by Leonard Baker

  1979PulitzerBiography
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  Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate

  1978PulitzerBiography
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  A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence by John E. Mack

  1977PulitzerBiography
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  Edith Wharton: A Biography by R. W. B. Lewis

  1976PulitzerBiography
• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro

  1975PulitzerBiography
• O'Neill, Son and Artist by Louis Sheaffer

  1974PulitzerBiography
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  Luce and His Empire by W. A. Swanberg

  1973PulitzerBiography
• Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash

  1972PulitzerBiography
• Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915 -1938 by Lawrance Thompson

  1971PulitzerBiography
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  Huey Long by T. Harry Williams

  1970PulitzerBiography
• The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends by Benjamin Lawrence Reid

  1969PulitzerBiography
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  Memoirs by George F. Kennan

  1968PulitzerBiography
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  Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain by Justin Kaplan

  1967PulitzerBiography
• A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger

  1966PulitzerBiography
• Henry Adams, three volumes by Ernest Samuels

  1965PulitzerBiography
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  John Keats by Walter Jackson Bate

  1964PulitzerBiography
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  Henry James by Leon Edel

  1963PulitzerBiography
• Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War by David Donald

  1961PulitzerBiography
• John Paul Jones by Samuel Eliot Morison

  1960PulitzerBiography
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  Woodrow Wilson by Arthur Walworth

  1959PulitzerBiography
• George Washington, Volumes I-VII by Douglas Southall Freeman with John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth

  1958PulitzerBiography
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  Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy

  1957PulitzerBiography
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  Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Talbot Faulkner Hamlin

  1956PulitzerBiography
• The Taft Story by William S. White

  1955PulitzerBiography
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  The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh

  1954PulitzerBiography
• Edmund Pendleton 1721-1803 by David J. Mays

  1953PulitzerBiography
• Charles Evans Hughes by Merlo J. Pusey

  1952PulitzerBiography
• John C. Calhoun: American Portrait by Margaret Louise Coit

  1951PulitzerBiography
• John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis

  1950PulitzerBiography
• Roosevelt and Hopkins by Robert E. Sherwood

  1949PulitzerBiography
• Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow by Margaret Clapp

  1948PulitzerBiography
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  The Autobiography of William Allen White by William Allen White

  1947PulitzerBiography
• Son of the Wilderness by Linnie Marsh Wolfe

  1946PulitzerBiography
• George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel by Russell Blaine Nye

  1945PulitzerBiography
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  The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse by Carleton Mabee

  1944PulitzerBiography
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  Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus by Samuel Eliot Morison

  1943PulitzerBiography
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  Crusader in Crinoline by Forrest Wilson

  1942PulitzerBiography
• Jonathan Edwards, 1703–1758: A Biography by Ola Elizabeth Winslow

  1941PulitzerBiography
• Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII by Ray Stannard Baker

  1940PulitzerBiography
• Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren

  1939PulitzerBiography
• The Life of Andrew Jackson by Marquis James

  1938PulitzerBiography
• Pedlar's Progress by Odell Shepard

  1938PulitzerBiography
• Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Administration by Allan Nevins

  1937PulitzerBiography
• The Thought and Character of William James: As Revealed in Unpublished Correspondence and Notes, Together with His Published Writings by Ralph Barton Perry

  1936PulitzerBiography
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  R. E. Lee by Douglas S. Freeman

  1935PulitzerBiography
• John Hay by Tyler Dennett

  1934PulitzerBiography
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  Grover Cleveland by Allan Nevins

  1933PulitzerBiography
• Theodore Roosevelt by Henry F. Pringle

  1932PulitzerBiography
• Charles W. Eliot by Henry James

  1931PulitzerBiography
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  The Raven by Marquis James

  1930PulitzerBiography
• The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page by Burton J. Hendrick

  1929PulitzerBiography
• The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas by Charles Edward Russell

  1928PulitzerBiography
• Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative by Emory Holloway

  1927PulitzerBiography
• The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols. by Harvey Cushing

  1926PulitzerBiography
• Barrett Wendell and His Letters by M. A. Dewolfe Howe

  1925PulitzerBiography
• From Immigrant to Inventor by Michael Idvorsky Pupin

  1924PulitzerBiography
• The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page by Burton J. Hendrick

  1923PulitzerBiography
• A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

  1922PulitzerBiography
• The Americanization of Edward Bok by Edward Bok

  1921PulitzerBiography
• The Life of John Marshall by Albert J. Beveridge

  1920PulitzerBiography
• The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

  1919PulitzerBiography
• Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed by William Cabell Bruce

  1918PulitzerBiography
• Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 by Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott assisted by Florence Howe Hall

  1917PulitzerBiography