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The '''Pulitzer Prize for Biography''' is one of the seven American [[Pulitzer Prizes]] annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. The award honors "a distinguished and appropriately documented biography by an American author."<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Biography |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/222 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Pulitzer Prize]] |language=en |archive-date=June 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190628212619/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/222 |url-status=live }}</ref> Award winners receive $15,000 | The '''Pulitzer Prize for Biography''' is one of the seven American [[Pulitzer Prizes]] annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. The award honors "a distinguished and appropriately documented biography by an American author."<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Biography |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/222 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Pulitzer Prize]] |language=en |archive-date=June 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190628212619/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/222 |url-status=live }}</ref> Award winners receive US$15,000.<ref name=":3" /> | ||
From 1917 to 2022, this prize was known as the '''Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography''' and was awarded to a distinguished biography, autobiography or memoir<ref name="Pulitzer-list">{{cite web |title=Biography: Prize Winners by Category |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/222 |access-date=May 31, 2019 |website=[[Pulitzer Prize]] |archive-date=June 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190628212619/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/222 |url-status=live }}</ref> by an American author or co-authors, published during the preceding calendar year. It is one of the original Pulitzers. The program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1917 |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1917 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Pulitzer Prize]] |language=en |archive-date=December 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151224024355/http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1917 |url-status=live }}</ref> | From 1917 to 2022, this prize was known as the '''Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography''' and was awarded to a distinguished biography, autobiography or memoir<ref name="Pulitzer-list">{{cite web |title=Biography: Prize Winners by Category |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/222 |access-date=May 31, 2019 |website=[[Pulitzer Prize]] |archive-date=June 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190628212619/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/222 |url-status=live }}</ref> by an American author or co-authors, published during the preceding calendar year. It is one of the original Pulitzers. The program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1917 |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1917 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Pulitzer Prize]] |language=en |archive-date=December 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151224024355/http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1917 |url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
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Template:Use mdy dates Template:Short description Template:Pulitzer The Pulitzer Prize for Biography is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. The award honors "a distinguished and appropriately documented biography by an American author."[1] Award winners receive US$15,000.[1]
From 1917 to 2022, this prize was known as the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and was awarded to a distinguished biography, autobiography or memoir[2] by an American author or co-authors, published during the preceding calendar year. It is one of the original Pulitzers. The program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year.[3]
Recipients
In its first 97 years to 2013, the Biography Pulitzer was awarded 97 times. Two were given in 1938, and none in 1962.[4]
1910s-1940s
1950s-1970s
1980s
Entries from this point on include the finalists listed after the winner for each year.
1990s
| Year | Author(s) | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Template:Sortname | Machiavelli in Hell | Winner | |
| Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Clear Pictures: First Loves, First Guides | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | Finalist | ||
| 1991 | Template:Sortname and Gregory White Smith | Jackson Pollock: An American Saga | Winner | [19] |
| Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Alfred I. Du Pont: The Man and His Family | Finalist | ||
| 1992 | Template:Sortname | Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller Jr. | Winner | |
| Template:Sortname | Frederick Douglass | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Orwell: The Authorized Biography | Finalist | ||
| 1993 | Template:Sortname | Truman | Winner | [20] |
| Template:Sortname | Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Kissinger: A Biography | Finalist | ||
| 1994 | Template:Sortname | W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919 | Winner | [21] |
| Template:Sortname | In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Genet: A Biography | Finalist | ||
| 1995 | Template:Sortname | Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life | Winner | |
| Template:Sortname | Hugo Black: A Biography | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Saint-Exupery: A Biography | Finalist | [22] | |
| 1996 | Template:Sortname | God: A Biography | Winner | |
| Template:Sortname | John Sloan: Painter and Rebel | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Mozart: A Life | Finalist | [23] | |
| 1997 | Template:Sortname | Angela's Ashes: A Memoir | Winner | |
| Template:Sortname | In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 1, 1819–1851 | Finalist | ||
| 1998 | Template:Sortname | Personal History | Winner | [24][25] |
| Template:Sortname | Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public-Private Life | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Whittaker Chambers: A Biography | Finalist | ||
| 1999 | Template:Sortname | Lindbergh | Winner | [26][27] |
| Template:Sortname | At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | Finalist |
2000s
2010s
| Year | Author(s) | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | Winner | [34] |
| Template:Sortname | Cheever: A Life | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Woodrow Wilson: A Biography | Finalist | ||
| 2011 | Template:Sortname | Washington: A Life | Winner | [35][36] |
| Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon | Finalist | ||
| 2012 | Template:Sortname | George F. Kennan: An American Life | Winner | [37][38] |
| Template:Sortname | Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution | Finalist | [38] | |
| Template:Sortname | Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention | Finalist | [38] | |
| 2013 | Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | Winner | [39] |
| Template:Sortname | Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece | Finalist | [39] | |
| Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | Finalist | [39] | |
| 2014 | Template:Sortname | Margaret Fuller: A New American Life | Winner | [40][41] |
| Template:Sortname | Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life | Finalist | ||
| 2015 | Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | Winner | [42][43] |
| Template:Sortname | Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928 | Finalist | ||
| 2016 | Template:Sortname | Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life | Winner | [44][45] |
| Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America | Finalist | ||
| 2017 | Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | Winner | [46][47] |
| Template:Sortname | In the Darkroom | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | When Breath Becomes Air | Finalist | ||
| 2018 | Template:Sortname | Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder | Winner | [48][49] |
| Template:Sortname | Richard Nixon: The Life | Finalist | [48] | |
| Template:Sortname | Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character | Finalist | [48] | |
| 2019 | Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | Winner | [50][51] |
| Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | Finalist | [50] | |
| Template:Sortname | Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle Paris | Finalist | [50] |
2020s
Repeat winners
Ten people have won the Pulitzer for Biography or Autobiography twice:
- Burton J. Hendrick, 1923, 1929
- Allan Nevins, 1933, 1937
- Marquis James, 1930, 1938
- Douglas S. Freeman, 1935, 1958
- Samuel Eliot 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 in 1962 and 1973; however, the trustees of Columbia University (then responsible for conferral of the awards) overturned the proposed 1962 prize for Citizen Hearst.[7]
See also
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References
External links
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