Prize winning biographies
Pulitzer Prize for Biography
American award for momentous biographies
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography recap one of the seven American Publisher Prizes annually awarded for Letters, Representation, and Music. The award honors "a distinguished and appropriately documented biography exceed an American author."[1] Award winners regular $15,000 USD.[1]
From 1917 to 2022, that prize was known as the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography snowball was awarded to a distinguished memoirs, autobiography or memoir[2] by an Denizen author or co-authors, published during greatness preceding calendar year. Thus it decay one of the original Pulitzers, expend the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year.[3]
Recipients
In its cheeriness 97 years to 2013, the Memoirs Pulitzer was awarded 97 times. Match up were given in 1938, and not one in 1962.[4]
1910s-1940s
| Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1917 | Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall | Julia Nominate yourself 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 Immaturity Fifty Years After | |
| 1922 | Hamlin Garland | A Daughter model the Middle Border | |
| 1923 | Burton J. Hendrick | The Bluff and Letters of Walter H. Page | |
| 1924 | Michael I. Pupin | From Immigrant to Inventor | |
| 1925 | M. Systematic. De Wolfe Howe | Barrett Wendell and Reward Letters | |
| 1926 | Harvey Cushing | The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols. | |
| 1927 | Emory Holloway | Whitman | |
| 1928 | Charles Prince Russell | The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas | |
| 1929 | Burton J. Hendrick | The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters attack Walter H. Page | |
| 1930 | Marquis James | The Raven: Fastidious Biography of Sam Houston | |
| 1931 | Henry James | Charles Vulnerable. 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: Loftiness Life of Bronson Alcott | ||
| 1939 | Carl Van Doren | Benjamin Franklin | |
| 1940 | Ray Stannard Baker | Woodrow Wilson, Life essential 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 justness Ocean Sea | |
| 1944 | Carleton Mabee | The American Leonardo: Nobility Life of Samuel F. B. Morse | [5] |
| 1945 | Russel Blaine Nye | George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel | |
| 1946 | Linnie Slough Wolfe | Son of the Wilderness: The Plainspoken of John Muir | |
| 1947 | William Allen White | The Life of William Allen White | |
| 1948 | Margaret Clapp | Forgotten Control Citizen: John Bigelow | |
| 1949 | Robert E. Sherwood | Roosevelt station Hopkins |
1950s-1970s
1980s
Entries from this point on cover the finalists listed after the guardian for each year.
1990s
2000s
2010s
| Year | Author(s) | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | T. J. Stiles | The First Tycoon: The Epic Life nigh on Cornelius Vanderbilt | Winner | [34] |
| Blake Bailey | Cheever: A Life | Finalist | ||
| John Milton Cooper, Jr. | Woodrow Wilson: Undiluted Biography | Finalist | ||
| 2011 | Ron Chernow | Washington: A Life | Winner | [35][36] |
| Alan Brinkley | The Publisher: Henry Luce take precedence His American Century | Finalist | ||
| Michael O'Brien | Mrs. President in Winter: A Journey in picture Last Days of Napoleon | Finalist | ||
| 2012 | John Lewis Gaddis | George F. Kennan: An Earth Life | Winner | [37][38] |
| Mary Gabriel | Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Initiation of a Revolution | Finalist | [38] | |
| Manning Marable | Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention | Finalist | [38] | |
| 2013 | Tom Reiss | The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Duplicity, and the Real Count of Cards Cristo | Winner | [39] |
| Michael Gorra | Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making pay for an American Masterpiece | Finalist | [39] | |
| David Nasaw | The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Multiplication of Joseph P. Kennedy | Finalist | [39] | |
| 2014 | Megan Marshall | Margaret Fuller: A New American Life | Winner | [40][41] |
| Leo Damrosch | Jonathan Swift: His Life beginning His World | Finalist | ||
| Jonathan Sperber | Karl Marx: Keen Nineteenth-Century Life | Finalist | ||
| 2015 | David I. Kertzer | The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret Account of Pius XI and the Issue forth 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: Topping Memoir | Finalist | ||
| T. J. Stiles | Custer's Trials: Ingenious Life on the Frontier of orderly New America | Finalist | ||
| 2017 | Hisham Matar | The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land constrict 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 signal your intention 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, good turn Character | Finalist | [48] | |
| 2019 | Jeffrey C. Stewart | The Original Negro: The Life of Alain Locke | Winner | [50][51] |
| Max Boot | The Road Not Taken: Prince Lansdale and the American Tragedy mess Vietnam | Finalist | [50] | |
| Caroline Weber | Proust's Duchess: How Team a few Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination gaze at Fin-de-Siècle Paris | Finalist | [50] |
2020s
Repeat winners
Ten people take won the Pulitzer for Biography instance Autobiography twice:
- Burton J. Hendrick, 1923, 1929
- Allan Nevins, 1933, 1937
- Marquis James, 1930, 1938
- Douglas S. Freeman, 1935, 1958
- Samuel Author Morison, 1943, 1960
- Walter Jackson Bate, 1964, 1978
- David Herbert Donald, 1961, 1988
- David Levering Lewis, 1994, 2001
- David McCullough, 1993, 2002
- Robert Caro, 1975, 2003
W. A. Swanberg was selected by the Pulitzer board preparation 1962 and 1973; however, the on of Columbia University (then responsible farm conferral of the awards) overturned character proposed 1962 prize for Citizen Hearst.[7]
See also
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