Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography / 2009 - 1917
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author.
2009: American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by John Meacham
2008: Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson
2007: The Most Famous Man in America by Debby Applegate
2006: American Prometheus:…Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
2005: de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
2004: Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman
2003: Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro
2002: John Adams by David McCullough
2001: W.E.B. Du Bois:…and The American Century by David Levering Lewis
2000: Vera, Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov by Stacy Schiff
1999: Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg
1998: Personal History by Katharine Graham
1997: Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
1996: God: A Biography by Jack Miles
1995: Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life by Joan D. Hedrick
1994: W.E.B. Dubois : Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis
1993: Truman by David McCullough
1992: Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller Jr. by Lewis B. Puller
1991: Jackson Pollock: An American Saga by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
1990: Machiavelli in Hell by Sebastian de Grazia
1989: Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann
1988: Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald
1987: Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr…by David J. Garrow
1986: Louise Bogan: A Portrait by Elizabeth Frank
1985: The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman
1984: Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee by Louis R. Harlan
1983: Growing Up by Russell Baker
1982: Grant: A Biography by William S. McFeely
1981: Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie
1980: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
1979: Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews by Leonard Baker
1978: Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate
1977: A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T E. Lawrence by John E. Mack
1976: Edith Wharton: A Biography by R. W. B. Lewis
1975: The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro
1974: O'Neill, Son and Artist by Louis Sheaffer
1973: Luce and His Empire by W. A. Swanberg
1972: Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash
1971: Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph… by Lawrence Thompson
1970: Huey Long by Thomas Harry Williams
1969: The Man From New York: John Quinn… by Benjamin Lawrence Reid
1968: Memoirs by George Frost Kennan
1967: Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain by Justin Kaplan
1966: A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
1965: Henry Adams, 3 vols., by Ernest Samuels
1964: John Keats by Walter Jackson Bate
1963: Henry James by Leon Edel
1962: no award given
1961: Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War by David Donald
1960: John Paul Jones by Samuel Eliot Morison
1959: Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet by Arthur Walworth
1958: George Washing Vols. I -VII by Freeman, Carroll and Ashworth
1957: Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
1956: Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Talbot Faulkner Hamlin
1955: The Taft Story by William S. White
1954: The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh
1953: Edmund Pendleton 1721-1803 by David J. Mays
1952: Charles Evans Hughes by Merlo J. Pusey
1951: John C. Calhoun: American Portrait by Margaret Louise Coit
1950: John Quincy Adams…American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis
1949: Roosevelt and Hopkins by Robert E. Sherwood
1948: Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow by Margaret Clapp
1947: The Autobiography of William Allen White by William Allen White
1946: Son of the Wilderness by Linnie Marsh Wolfe
1945: George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel by Russel Blaine Nye
1944: The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse by Carleton Mabee
1943: Admiral of the Ocean Sea by Samuel Eliot Morison
1942: Crusader in Crinoline by Forrest Wilson
1941: Jonathan Edward by Ola Elizabeth Winslow
1940: Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII by Ray Stannard Baker
1939: Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren
1938: Andrew Jackson, 2 vols. by Marquis James
1938: Pedlar's Progress by Odell Shepard
1937: Hamilton Fish by Allan Nevins
1936: The Thought and Character of William James by Ralph Barton Perry
1935: R. E. Lee by Douglas S. Freeman
1934: John Hay by Tyler Dennett
1933: Grover Cleveland by Allan Nevins
1932: Theodore Roosevelt by Henry F. Pringle
1931: Charles W. Eliot by Henry James
1930: The Raven by Marquis James
1929: The Training of an American:…Walter H. Page by Burton J. Hendrick
1928: The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas by Charles Edward Russell
1927: Whitman by Emory Holloway
1926: The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols. by Harvey Cushing
1925: Barrett Wendell and His Letters by M. A. Dewolfe Howe
1924: From Immigrant to Inventor by Michael Idvorsky Pupin
1923: The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page by Burton J. Hendrick
1922: A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
1921: The Americanization of Edward Bok by Edward Bok
1920: The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols. by Albert J. Beveridge
1919: The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
1918: Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed by William Cabell Bruce
1917: Julia Ward Howe by Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott
