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Pulitzer Prize Winners for
Biographies &
Autobiographies
2005
Winner - de Kooning: An American Master by Mark
Stevens and Annalyn Swan (Alfred A. Knopf).
(Nominated Finalists)
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by
Stephen Greenblatt (W.W. Norton)
Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds
of America by William Souder (North Point Press/Farrar,
Straus & Giroux)
2004
Winner - Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William
Taubman (W.W. Norton)
(Nominated Finalists)
Isaac Newton by James Gleick (Pantheon Books)
Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work by Hayden Herrera (Farrar,
Straus & Giroux)
2003
Winner - Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro (Alfred A.
Knopf)
(Nominated Finalists)
The
Fly Swatter by Nicholas Dawidoff (Pantheon Books)
Beethoven: The Music and the Life by Lewis Lockwood (W.W.
Norton)
2002
Winner - John Adams by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)
(Nominated Finalists)
An
Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood by Jimmy
Carter (Simon & Schuster)
Grant by Jean Edward Smith (Simon & Schuster)
2001
Winner - W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the
American Century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis (Henry Holt
and Company
(Nominated Finalists)
The
First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by H.W.
Brands (Doubleday)
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician by Christoph Wolff
(W.W. Norton & Company
2000
Winner - Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) by Stacy Schiff
(Random House)
(Nominated Finalists)
Clear Springs: A Memoir by Bobbie Ann Mason (Random House)
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and
Love by Dava Sobel (Walker & Company
1999
Winner - Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
(Nominated Finalists)
At
Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life by Francine du Plessix
Gray (Simon & Schuster)
A
Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar (Simon & Schuster)
1998
Winner - Personal History by Katharine Graham (Alfred A.
Knopf)
(Nominated Finalists)
Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public-Private Life by James H. Jones (W.W.
Norton)
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography by Sam Tanenhaus (Random House)
1997
Winner - Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
(Scribner)
(Nominated Finalists)
In
the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country by Kim Barnes
(Doubleday)
Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 1, 1819-1851 by Hershel
Parker (The Johns Hopkins University Press)
1996
Winner - God: A Biography by Jack Miles (Alfred A.
Knopf)
(Nominated Finalists)
John Sloan: Painter and Rebel by John Loughery (Henry Holt)
Mozart: A Life by Maynard Solomon (Alfred A. Knopf)
1995
Winner - Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life by Joan D. Hedrick
(Oxford University Press)
(Nominated Finalists)
Hugo Black: A Biography by Roger K. Newman (Pantheon)
Saint-Exupery: A Biography by Stacy Schiff (Alfred A. Knopf)
1994
Winner - W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919 by
David Levering Lewis (Henry Holt)
(Nominated Finalists)
In
Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding by Deborah Baker (Grove
Press)
Genet: A Biography by Edmund White (Alfred A. Knopf)
1993
Winner - Truman by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)
(Nominated Finalists)
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick
(Pantheon)
Kissinger by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)
1992
Winner - Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet by
Lewis B. Puller, Jr. (Grove Weidenfeld)
(Nominated Finalists)
Orwell: The Authorized Biography by Michael Shelden
(HarperCollins)
Frederick Douglass by William S. McFeely (W.W. Norton & Company)
1991
Winner - Jackson Pollock by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White
Smith (Clarkson N. Potter)
(Nominated Finalists)
The
Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His
Friends 1880-1918 by Patricia O'Toole (Clarkson N. Potter)
Alfred I. Du Pont: The Man and His Family by Joseph Frazier Wall
1990
Winner - Machiavelli in Hell by Sebastian de Grazia
(Princeton University Press)
(Nominated Finalists)
The
Road From Coorain by Jill Ker Conway (Alfred A. Knopf)
Clear Pictures: First Loves, First Guides by Reynolds Price
(Atheneum)
A
First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt by
Geoffrey C. Ward (Harper & Row)
1989
Winner - Oscar Wilde by the late Richard Ellmann (Alfred A.
Knopf)
(Nominated Finalists)
Freud: A Life For Our Time by Peter Gay (W.W. Norton
The
Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II, 1941-1967: I Dream a World
by Arnold Rampersad (Oxford University Press)
A
Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by
Neil Sheehan (Random House
1988
Winner - Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David
Herbert Donald (Little, Brown and Company)
(Nominated Finalists)
Hemingway by Kenneth S. Lynn (Simon and Schuster)
George Santayana: A Biography by John McCormick (Alfred a.
Knopf)
1987
Winner - Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow
(William Morrow)
(Nominated Finalists)
Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 by Joseph Frank
(Princeton University Press)
The
Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams by Leonard L.
Richards (Oxford University Press)
Murrow: His Life and Times by A.M. Sperber (Freundlich Books)
1986.
Winner - Louise Bogan: A Portrait by Elizabeth Frank (Alfred
A. Knopf)
(Nominated Finalists)
George Washington Williams: A Biography by John Hope Franklin
(University of Chicago Press)
A
Hidden Childhood: A Jewish Girl's Sanctuary in a French Convent,
1942-1945 by Frida Scheps Weinstein (Hill and Wang)
1985
Winner - The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth
Silverman (Harper & Row)
(Nominated Finalists)
Becoming William James by Howard M. Feinstein (Cornell
University Press)
The
Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton by Michael Mott (Houghton
Mifflin)
1984
Winner - Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee,
1901-1915 by Louis R. Harlan (Oxford U. Press)
(Nominated Finalists)
Thomas Carlyle: A Biography by Fred Kaplan (Cornell University
Press)
Black Apollo of Science: the Life of Ernest Everett Just by
Kenneth Manning (Oxford University Press)
1983
Winner - Growing Up by Russell Baker (Congdon & Weed)
(Nominated Finalists)
Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry, 1874-1915 by Ted Morgan (Simon
& Schuster)
Thomas E. Dewey and His Times by Richard Norton Smith (Simon &
Schuster)
1982
Winner - Grant: A Biography by William McFeely (Norton)
(Nominated Finalists)
Waldo Emerson by Gay Wilson Allen (Viking)
Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)
1981
Winner - Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K.
Massie (Knopf)
(Nominated Finalists)
Walt Whitman: A Life by Justin Kaplan (Simon & Schuster)
Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel
(Atlantic-Little, Brown)
1980.
Winner - The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
(Coward, McCann)
(Nominated Finalists)
Bernard Berenson, The Making of a Connoisseur by Ernest Samuels
(Belknap-Harvard)
Being Bernard Berenson by Meryle Secrest (Holt, Rinehart)
The
Duke of Deception by Geoffrey Wolff (Random House)
1979
Winner - Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin
Jews by Leonard Baker (Macmillan
1978 - Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate (Harcourt)
1977- A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T E. Lawrence by
John E. Mack (Little, Brown)
1976 - Edith Wharton: A Biography by R. W. B. Lewis (Harper)
1975 - The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New
York by Robert Caro (Knopf)
1974 - O'Neill, Son and Artist by Louis Sheaffer (Little)
1973 - Luce and His Empire by W. A. Swanberg (Scribner)
1972 - Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash (Norton)
1971 - Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915 -1938 by
Lawrance Thompson (Holt)
1970 - Huey Long by T. Harry Williams (Knopf)
1969 - The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends by
Benjamin Lawrence Reid (Oxford Univ. Press)
1968 - Memoirs by George F. Kennan (Little)
1967 - Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain by Justin Kaplan (Simon &
Schuster)
1966 - A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
(Houghton)
1965 - Henry Adams, three volumes by Ernest Samuels (Harvard
Univ. Press)
1964 - John Keats by Walter Jackson Bate (Harvard Univ.
Press)
1963 - Henry James by Leon Edel (Lippincott)
1961 - Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War by
David Donald (Knopf)
1960 - John Paul Jones by Samuel Eliot Morison (Little)
1959 - Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet by Arthur Walworth
(Longmans)
1958 - George Washington, Volumes I-VI by Douglas Southall
Freeman, and Volume VII, written by John Alexander Carroll and
Mary Wells Ashworth after Dr. Freeman's Death in 1953 (Scribner)
1957 - Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy (Harper)
1956 - Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Talbot Faulkner
Hamlin (Oxford Univ. Press)
1955 - The Taft Story by William S. White (Harper)
1954 - The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh
(Scribner)
1953 - Edmund Pendleton 1721-1803 by David J. Mays (Harvard
Univ. Press)
1952 - Charles Evans Hughes by Merlo J. Pusey (Macmillan)
1951 - John C. Calhoun: American Portrait by Margaret Louise
Coit (Houghton)
1950 - John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American
Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis (Knopf)
1949 - Roosevelt and Hopkins by Robert E. Sherwood (Harper)
1948 - Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow by Margaret
Clapp (Little)
1947 - The Autobiography of William Allen White by William
Allen White (Macmillan)
1946 - Son of the Wilderness by Linnie Marsh Wolfe (Knopf)
1945 - George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel by Russell Blaine Nye
(Knopf)
1944 - The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse
by Carleton Mabee (Knopf)
1943 - Admiral of the Ocean Sea by Samuel Eliot Morison
(Little)
1942 - Crusader in Crinoline by Forrest Wilson (Lippincott)
1941 - Jonathan Edward by Ola Elizabeth Winslow (Macmillan)
1940 - Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII
by Ray Stannard Baker (Doubleday)
1939 - Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren (Viking)
1938 - Andrew Jackson, 2 vols. by Marquis James
(Bobbs)
Pedlar's Progress by Odell Shepard (Little)
1937 - Hamilton Fish by Allan Nevins (Dodd)
1936 - The Thought and Character of William James by Ralph
Barton Perry (Little)
1935 - R. E. Lee by Douglas S. Freeman (Scribner)
1934 - John Hay by Tyler Dennett (Dodd)
1932 - Theodore Roosevelt by Henry F. Pringle (Harcourt)
1931 - Charles W. Eliot by Henry James (Houghton)
1930 - The Raven by Marquis James (Bobbs)
1929 - The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and
Letters of Walter H. Page by Burton J. Hendrick (Houghton)
1928 - The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas by Charles
Edward Russell (Doubleday)
1927 - Whitman by Emory Holloway (Knopf)
1926 - The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols. by Harvey
Cushing (Oxford Univ. Press)
1925 - Barrett Wendell and His Letters by M. A. Dewolfe Howe
(Little)
1924 - From Immigrant to Inventor by Michael Idvorsky Pupin
(Scribner)
1923 - The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page by Burton J.
Hendrick (Houghton)
1922 - A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
(Macmillan)
1921 - The Americanization of Edward Bok by Edward Bok
(Scribner)
1920 - The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols. by Albert J.
Beveridge (Houghton
Winner
1919 - The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
(Houghton)
1918 - Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed by William Cabell
Bruce (Putnam)
1917 - Julia Ward Howe by Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe
Elliott assisted by Florence Howe Hall (Houghton)
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