Pulitzer Prize in Writing for Biography or Autobiography

Pulitzer Prize in Writing 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.

YearAuthorBiography/Autobiography 
2008John MattesonEden's Outcasts The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father 
2007Debby ApplegateThe Most Famous Man in America 
2006Kai BirdAmerican Prometheus The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer 
2005Mark StevensDe Kooning An American Master 
2004William TaubmanKhrushchev The Man and His Era 
2003Robert CaroMaster of the Senate The Years of Lyndon Johnson 
2002David McCulloughJohn Adams 
2001David Levering LewisW. E. B. Du Bois The Fight for Equality and The American Century 
2000Stacy SchiffVera 
1999A. Scott BergLindbergh 
1998Katharine GrahamPersonal History 
1997Frank McCourtAngela's Ashes A Memoir 
1996Jack MilesGod A Biography 
1995Joan D. HedrickHarriet Beecher Stowe A Life 
1994David Levering LewisW. E. B. Dubois Biography of a Race 
1993David McCulloughTruman 
1992Lewis B. PullerFortunate Son The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller Jr. 
1991Steven NaifehJackson Pollock An American Saga 
1990Sebastian de GraziaMachiavelli in Hell 
1989Richard EllmannOscar Wilde 
1988David Herbert DonaldLook Homeward A Life of Thomas Wolfe 
1987David J. GarrowBearing the Cross Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference 
1986Elizabeth FrankLouise Bogan A Portrait 
1985Kenneth SilvermanThe Life and Times of Cotton Mather 
1984Louis R. HarlanBooker T. Washington The Wizard of Tuskegee 
1983Russell BakerGrowing Up 
1982William S. McFeelyGrant A Biography 
1981Robert K. MassiePeter the Great His Life and World 
1980Edmund MorrisThe Rise of Theodore Roosevelt 
1979Leonard BakerDays of Sorrow and Pain Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews 
1978Walter Jackson BateSamuel Johnson 
1977John MackA Prince of Our Disorder The Life of T E. Lawrence 
1976R. W. B. LewisEdith Wharton A Biography 
1975Robert CaroThe Power Broker Robert Moses and the Fall of New York 
1974Louis SheafferO'Neill Son and Artist 
1973W. A. SwanbergLuce and His Empire 
1972Joseph P. LashEleanor and Franklin 
1971Lawrence ThompsonRobert Frost The Years of Triumph 
1970Thomas Harry WilliamsHuey Long 
1969Benjamin Lawrence ReidThe Man From New York John Quinn and His Friends 
1968George F. KennanMemoirs 
1967Justin KaplanMr. Clemens and Mark Twain 
1966Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.A Thousand Days 
1965Ernest SamuelsHenry Adams 
1964Walter Jackson BateJohn Keats 
1963Leon EdelHenry James 
1962no award- 
1961David DonaldCharles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War 
1960Samuel Eliot MorisonJohn Paul Jones 
1959Arthur WalworthWoodrow Wilson American Prophet 
1958Douglas Southall FreemanGeorge Washington 
1957John F. KennedyProfiles in Courage 
1956Talbot Faulkner HamlinBenjamin Henry Latrobe 
1955William S. WhiteThe Taft Story 
1954Charles LindberghThe Spirit of St. Louis 
1953David J. MaysEdmund Pendleton 1721-1803 
1952Merlo J. PuseyCharles Evans Hughes 
1951Margaret Louise CoitJohn C. Calhoun American Portrait 
1950Samuel Flagg BemisJohn Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy 
1949Robert E. SherwoodRoosevelt and Hopkins 
1948Margaret ClappForgotten First Citizen John Bigelow 
1947William Allen WhiteThe Autobiography of William Allen White 
1946Linnie Marsh WolfeSon of the Wilderness 
1945Russell Blaine NyeGeorge Bancroft Brahmin Rebel 
1944Carleton MabeeThe American Leonardo The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse 
1943Samuel Eliot MorisonAdmiral of the Ocean Sea 
1942Forrest WilsonCrusader in Crinoline 
1941Ola Elizabeth WinslowJonathan Edward 
1940Ray Stannard BakerWoodrow Wilson Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII 
1939Carl Van DorenBenjamin Franklin 
1938Marquis JamesAndrew Jackson 
1938Odell ShepardPedlar's Progress 
1937Allan NevinsHamilton Fish 
1936Ralph Barton PerryThe Thought and Character of William James 
1935Douglas S. FreemanR. E. Lee 
1934Tyler DennettJohn Hay 
1933Allan NevinsGrover Cleveland 
1932Henry F. PringleTheodore Roosevelt 
1931Henry JamesCharles W. Eliot 
1930Marquis JamesThe Raven 
1929Burton J. HendrickThe Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page 
1928Charles Edward RussellThe American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas 
1927Emory HollowayWhitman 
1926Harvey CushingThe Life of Sir William Osler 
1925M. A. Dewolfe HoweBarrett Wendell and His Letters 
1924Michael Idvorsky PupinFrom Immigrant to Inventor 
1923Burton J. HendrickThe Life and Letters of Walter H. Page 
1922Hamlin GarlandA Daughter of the Middle Border 
1921Edward BokThe Americanization of Edward Bok 
1920Albert J. BeveridgeThe Life of John Marshall 
1919Henry AdamsThe Education of Henry Adams 
1918William Cabell BruceBenjamin Franklin 
1917Laura E. RichardsJulia Ward Howe 
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