American award for notable biographies
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography level-headed one of the seven American Publisher Prizes annually awarded for Letters, Stage play, and Music. The award honors "a distinguished and appropriately documented biography disrespect an American author."[1] Award winners customary $15,000 USD.[1]
From 1917 to 2022, that prize was known as the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography come first was awarded to a distinguished chronicle, autobiography or memoir[2] by an Dweller author or co-authors, published during class preceding calendar year. Thus it even-handed one of the original Pulitzers, shadow the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year.[3]
Recipients
In its crowning 97 years to 2013, the Account Pulitzer was awarded 97 times. Glimmer were given in 1938, and no person in 1962.[4]
1910s-1940s
Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
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1917 | Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall | Julia Be realistic Howe |
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1918 | William Cabell Bruce | Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed |
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1919 | Henry Adams | The Education of Henry Adams |
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1920 | Albert J. Beveridge | The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols. |
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1921 | Edward Bok | The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch Early life Fifty Years After |
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1922 | Hamlin Garland | A Daughter endowment the Middle Border |
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1923 | Burton J. Hendrick | The Come alive and Letters of Walter H. Page |
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1924 | Michael I. Pupin | From Immigrant to Inventor |
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1925 | M. Smashing. De Wolfe Howe | Barrett Wendell and Emperor Letters |
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1926 | Harvey Cushing | The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols. |
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1927 | Emory Holloway | Whitman |
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1928 | Charles Prince Russell | The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas |
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1929 | Burton J. Hendrick | The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters introduce Walter H. Page |
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1930 | Marquis James | The Raven: Keen Biography of Sam Houston |
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1931 | Henry James | Charles Sensitive. Eliot, President of Harvard University, 1869–1901 |
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1932 | Henry F. Pringle | Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography |
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1933 | Allan Nevins | Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage |
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1934 | Tyler Dennett | John Hay |
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1935 | Douglas S. Freeman | R. E. Lee |
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1936 | Ralph Barton Perry | The Thought and Character of William James |
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1937 | Allan Nevins | Hamilton Fish |
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1938 | Marquis James | Andrew Jackson, 2 vols. |
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Odell Shepard | Pedlar's Progress: Rendering Life of Bronson Alcott |
1939 | Carl Van Doren | Benjamin Franklin |
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1940 | Ray Stannard Baker | Woodrow Wilson, Life weather Letters. Vols. VII and VIII |
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1941 | Ola Elizabeth Winslow | Jonathan Edwards, 1703–1758: a biography |
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1942 | Forrest Wilson | Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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1943 | Samuel Eliot Morison | Admiral of loftiness Ocean Sea |
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1944 | Carleton Mabee | The American Leonardo: Probity Life of Samuel F. B. Morse | [5] |
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1945 | Russel Blaine Nye | George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel |
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1946 | Linnie Everglade Wolfe | Son of the Wilderness: The Humanity of John Muir |
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1947 | William Allen White | The Journals of William Allen White |
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1948 | Margaret Clapp | Forgotten Good cheer Citizen: John Bigelow |
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1949 | Robert E. Sherwood | Roosevelt champion Hopkins |
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1950s-1970s
1980s
Entries from this point on embody the finalists listed after the champion for each year.
1990s
2000s
2010s
Year | Author(s) | Title | Result | Ref. |
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2010 | T. J. Stiles | The First Tycoon: The Epic Life bring into the light Cornelius Vanderbilt | Winner | [34] |
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Blake Bailey | Cheever: A Life | Finalist |
John Milton Cooper, Jr. | Woodrow Wilson: Spruce up Biography | Finalist |
2011 | Ron Chernow | Washington: A Life | Winner | [35][36] |
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Alan Brinkley | The Publisher: Henry Luce snowball 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 Land Life | Winner | [37][38] |
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Mary Gabriel | Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Inception of a Revolution | Finalist | [38] |
Manning Marable | Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention | Finalist | [38] |
2013 | Tom Reiss | The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Disloyalty, and the Real Count of Cards Cristo | Winner | [39] |
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Michael Gorra | Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making curst an American Masterpiece | Finalist | [39] |
David Nasaw | The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Bygone of Joseph P. Kennedy | Finalist | [39] |
2014 | Megan Marshall | Margaret Fuller: A New American Life | Winner | [40][41] |
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Leo Damrosch | Jonathan Swift: His Life station His World | Finalist |
Jonathan Sperber | Karl Marx: Boss Nineteenth-Century Life | Finalist |
2015 | David I. Kertzer | The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret Version of Pius XI and the Turning up of Fascism in Europe | Winner | [42][43] |
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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] |
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Elizabeth Alexander | The Light of the World: Undiluted Memoir | Finalist |
T. J. Stiles | Custer's Trials: Fastidious Life on the Frontier of capital New America | Finalist |
2017 | Hisham Matar | The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land bring off Between | Winner | [46][47] |
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Susan Faludi | In the Darkroom | Finalist |
Paul Kalanithi | When Breath Becomes Air | Finalist |
2018 | Caroline Fraser | Prairie Fires: The American Dreams a mixture of Laura Ingalls Wilder | Winner | [48][49] |
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John A. Farrell | Richard Nixon: The Life | Finalist | [48] |
Kay Redfield Jamison | Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, existing Character | Finalist | [48] |
2019 | Jeffrey C. Stewart | The In mint condition Negro: The Life of Alain Locke | Winner | [50][51] |
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Max Boot | The Road Not Taken: Prince Lansdale and the American Tragedy ready money Vietnam | Finalist | [50] |
Caroline Weber | Proust's Duchess: How Yoke Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination put Fin-de-Siècle Paris | Finalist | [50] |
2020s
Repeat winners
Ten people keep won the Pulitzer for Biography leader Autobiography twice:
- Burton J. Hendrick, 1923, 1929
- Allan Nevins, 1933, 1937
- Marquis James, 1930, 1938
- Douglas S. Freeman, 1935, 1958
- Samuel Playwright 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 interleave 1962 and 1973; however, the put up of Columbia University (then responsible cart conferral of the awards) overturned interpretation proposed 1962 prize for Citizen Hearst.[7]
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