Pulitzer Prize for Biography

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Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Sidebar". 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

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners, 1917–1949[2]
Year Author Title Ref.
1917 Script error: No such module "Sort". and Maud Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall Julia Ward Howe
1918 Script error: No such module "Sort". Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed
1919 Script error: No such module "Sort".† Script error: No such module "sort".
1920 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort"., 4 vols.
1921 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort".
1922 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort".
1923 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort".
1924 Script error: No such module "Sort". From Immigrant to Inventor
1925 Script error: No such module "Sort". Barrett Wendell and His Letters
1926 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort"., 2 vols.
1927 Script error: No such module "Sort". Whitman
1928 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort".
1929 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort".
1930 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort".
1931 Script error: No such module "Sort". Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University, 1869–1901
1932 Script error: No such module "Sort". Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography
1933 Script error: No such module "Sort". Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage
1934 Script error: No such module "Sort". John Hay
1935 Script error: No such module "Sort". R. E. Lee
1936 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort".
1937 Script error: No such module "Sort". Hamilton Fish
1938 Script error: No such module "Sort". The Life of Andrew Jackson, 2 vols.
Script error: No such module "Sort". Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott
1939 Script error: No such module "Sort". Benjamin FranklinTemplate:Efn
1940 Script error: No such module "Sort". Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIIITemplate:Efn
1941 Script error: No such module "Sort". Jonathan Edwards, 1703–1758: A Biography
1942 Script error: No such module "Sort". Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher StoweTemplate:Efn
1943 Script error: No such module "Sort". Admiral of the Ocean Sea
1944 Script error: No such module "Sort". The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F. B. MorseTemplate:Efn [5]
1945 Script error: No such module "Sort". George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel
1946 Script error: No such module "Sort". Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John MuirTemplate:Efn
1947 Script error: No such module "Sort".† The Autobiography of William Allen White
1948 Script error: No such module "Sort". Forgotten First Citizen: John BigelowTemplate:Efn
1949 Script error: No such module "Sort". Roosevelt and HopkinsTemplate:Efn

1950s–1970s

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners, 1950–1979[2]
Year Author Title Ref.
1950 Script error: No such module "Sort". John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign PolicyTemplate:Efn
1951 Script error: No such module "Sort". John C. Calhoun: American PortraitTemplate:Efn
1952 Script error: No such module "Sort". Charles Evans HughesTemplate:Efn
1953 Script error: No such module "Sort". Edmund Pendleton 1721–1803Template:Efn
1954 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort".
1955 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort".Template:Efn
1956 Script error: No such module "Sort". Benjamin Henry LatrobeTemplate:Efn
1957 Script error: No such module "Sort". Profiles in CourageTemplate:Efn [6]
1958 Script error: No such module "Sort".† with John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth George Washington, vols. I-VIITemplate:Efn
1959 Script error: No such module "Sort". Woodrow WilsonTemplate:Efn
1960 Script error: No such module "Sort". John Paul JonesTemplate:Efn
1961 Script error: No such module "Sort". Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil WarTemplate:Efn
1962 No award presented[7]
1963 Script error: No such module "Sort". Henry JamesTemplate:Efn
1964 Script error: No such module "Sort". John KeatsTemplate:Efn
1965 Script error: No such module "Sort". Henry Adams, 3 vols.Template:Efn
1966 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort".Template:Efn [8]
1967 Script error: No such module "Sort". Mr. Clemens and Mark TwainTemplate:Efn [9]
1968 Script error: No such module "Sort". MemoirsTemplate:Efn
1969 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort".Template:Efn
1970 Script error: No such module "Sort". Huey Long [10]
1971 Script error: No such module "Sort". Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915–1938Template:Efn
1972 Script error: No such module "Sort". Eleanor and Franklin
1973 Script error: No such module "Sort". Luce and His Empire
1974 Script error: No such module "Sort". O'Neill, Son and Artist
1975 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". [11]
1976 Script error: No such module "Sort". Edith Wharton: A BiographyTemplate:Efn
1977 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort".
1978 Script error: No such module "Sort". Samuel Johnson
1979 Script error: No such module "Sort". Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin JewsTemplate:Efn

1980s

Entries from this point on include the finalists listed after the winner for each year.

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners and finalists, 1980–1989[2]
Year Author Title Result Ref.
1980 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". Bernard Berenson, The Making of a Connoisseur Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Being Bernard Berenson Finalist
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1981 Script error: No such module "Sort". Peter the Great: His Life and World Winner [12][13]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Walt Whitman: A Life Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Walter Lippmann and the American Century Finalist
1982 Script error: No such module "Sort". Grant: A Biography Winner [14]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Waldo Emerson Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Mornings on Horseback Finalist
1983 Script error: No such module "Sort". Growing Up Winner [15]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry, 1874–1915 Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Thomas E. Dewey and His Times Finalist
1984 Script error: No such module "Sort". Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915 Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". Thomas Carlyle: A Biography Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just Finalist
1985 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Winner [16]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Becoming William James Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [17]
1986 Script error: No such module "Sort". Louise Bogan: A Portrait Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". George Washington Williams: A Biography Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist
1987 Script error: No such module "Sort". Bearing The Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860–1865 Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Murrow: His Life and Times Finalist
1988 Script error: No such module "Sort". Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". Hemingway Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". George Santayana: A Biography Finalist
1989 Script error: No such module "Sort".† Oscar Wilde Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". Freud: A Life for Our Time Finalist
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1990s

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners and finalists, 1990–1999[2]
Year Author(s) Title Result Ref.
1990 Script error: No such module "Sort". Machiavelli in Hell Winner
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Script error: No such module "Sort". Clear Pictures: First Loves, First Guides Finalist
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1991 Script error: No such module "Sort". and Gregory White Smith Jackson Pollock: An American Saga Winner [19]
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Script error: No such module "Sort". Alfred I. Du Pont: The Man and His Family Finalist
1992 Script error: No such module "Sort". Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller Jr. Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". Frederick Douglass Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Orwell: The Authorized Biography Finalist
1993 Script error: No such module "Sort". Truman Winner [20]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Kissinger: A Biography Finalist
1994 Script error: No such module "Sort". W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919 Winner [21]
Script error: No such module "Sort". In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Genet: A Biography Finalist
1995 Script error: No such module "Sort". Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". Hugo Black: A Biography Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Saint-Exupery: A Biography Finalist [22]
1996 Script error: No such module "Sort". God: A Biography Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". John Sloan: Painter and Rebel Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Mozart: A Life Finalist [23]
1997 Script error: No such module "Sort". Angela's Ashes: A Memoir Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 1, 1819–1851 Finalist
1998 Script error: No such module "Sort". Personal History Winner [24][25]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public-Private Life Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Whittaker Chambers: A Biography Finalist
1999 Script error: No such module "Sort". Lindbergh Winner [26][27]
Script error: No such module "Sort". At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life Finalist
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2000s

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners and finalists, 2000–2009[2]
Year Author(s) Title Result
2000 Script error: No such module "Sort". Vera, Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov Winner [22]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Clear Springs: A Memoir Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love Finalist
2001 Script error: No such module "Sort". W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963 Winner [28]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician Finalist
2002 Script error: No such module "Sort". John Adams Winner [20]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Grant Finalist [29]
2003 Script error: No such module "Sort". Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Winner
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Script error: No such module "Sort". Beethoven: The Music and the Life Finalist
2004 Script error: No such module "Sort". Khrushchev: The Man and His Era Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". Isaac Newton Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work Finalist
2005 Script error: No such module "Sort". and Annalyn Swan de Kooning: An American Master Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America Finalist
2006 Script error: No such module "Sort". and Martin J. Sherwin American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [30]
2007 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty Finalist [31]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Andrew Carnegie Finalist
2008 Script error: No such module "Sort". Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist
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2009 Script error: No such module "Sort". American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House Winner [32][33]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Finalist
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2010s

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners and finalists, 2010–2019[2]
Year Author(s) Title Result Ref.
2010 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Winner [34]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Cheever: A Life Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Woodrow Wilson: A Biography Finalist
2011 Script error: No such module "Sort". Washington: A Life Winner [35][36]
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Script error: No such module "Sort". Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon Finalist
2012 Script error: No such module "Sort". George F. Kennan: An American Life Winner [37][38]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution Finalist [38]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention Finalist [38]
2013 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Winner [39]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece Finalist [39]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [39]
2014 Script error: No such module "Sort". Margaret Fuller: A New American Life Winner [40][41]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life Finalist
2015 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Winner [42][43]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928 Finalist
2016 Script error: No such module "Sort". Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life Winner [44][45]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America Finalist
2017 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Winner [46][47]
Script error: No such module "Sort". In the Darkroom Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". When Breath Becomes Air Finalist
2018 Script error: No such module "Sort". Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder Winner [48][49]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Richard Nixon: The Life Finalist [48]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character Finalist [48]
2019 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Winner [50][51]
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Script error: No such module "Sort". Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle Paris Finalist [50]

2020s

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners and finalists, 2020–present[2]
Year Author(s) Work Result Ref
2020 Script error: No such module "Sort". Sontag: Her Life and Work Winner [52][53][54]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century Finalist [52]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me Finalist [52]
2021 Script error: No such module "Sort".† and Tamara Payne Script error: No such module "sort". Winner [55][56][57]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath Finalist [55]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World Finalist [55]
2022 Script error: No such module "Sort".† and Erin I. Kelly Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South Winner [58][59][60]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Pessoa: A Biography Finalist [58]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [58]
2023 Script error: No such module "Sort". G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century Winner [61][62]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century Finalist [61]
Script error: No such module "Sort". and Toluse Olorunnipa His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice Finalist [61]
2024 Script error: No such module "Sort". King: A Life Winner [63][64]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom Winner [63]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Larry McMurtry: A Life Finalist [63]
2025 Script error: No such module "Sort". Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life Winner [65]
Script error: No such module "Sort". John Lewis: A Life Finalist [66]
Script error: No such module "Sort". The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker Finalist [67]
2026 Script error: No such module "Sort". Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution Winner [68]
Script error: No such module "Sort". The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen Finalist

Repeat winners

Ten people have won the Pulitzer for Biography or Autobiography twice:

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]

Notes

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See also

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