The Literary World
Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
This prize has been awarded annually since 1917 for a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author.
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Albert J. Beveridge (born 1862, died 1927)
American historian and U.S. senator.
- 1920 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for The Life of John Marshall
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Allan Nevins (born 1890, died 1971)
American historian.
- Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, in 1933 for Grover Cleveland and in 1937 for Hamilton Fish
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (born 1917)
American historian.
- 1966 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for A Thousand Days: JFK in the White House
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Arthur Walworth
- 1959 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet
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Benjamin Lawrence Reid
- 1969 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends
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Burton J. Hendrick (born 1870, died 1949)
American journalist and historian.
- Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner Biography/Autobiography, in 1923 for The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page and in 1929 for The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page
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Carl Van Doren (born 1885, died 1950)
American biographer and critic.
- 1939 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Benjamin Franklin
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Carleton Mabee
- 1944 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F.B. Morse
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Charles Edward Russell
- 1928 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas
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Charles A. Lindbergh (born 1902, died 1974)
American aviator. First person to make a nonstop solo transatlantic flight, in 1927.
- 1954 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for The Spirit of St. Louis
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David J. Mays
- 1953 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Edmund Pendleton 1721-1803
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David J. Garrow (born 1953)
American historian and political scientist.
- 1987 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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David Herbert Donald (born 1920)
American historian.
- Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, in 1961 for Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War and in 1988 for Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
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David McCullough (born 1933)
American historian.
- 1993 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Truman
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David Levering Lewis
American historian.
- 1994 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for W.E.B. DuBois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
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Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe (born 1864, died 1960)
American writer and editor.
- 1925 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Barrett Wendell and His Letters
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Douglas Southall Freeman (born 1886, died 1953)
American historian.
- Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, in 1935 for R.E. Lee and in 1958 for George Washington
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Edmund Morris
- 1980 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
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Edward Bok (born 1863, died 1930)
American writer and editor.
- 1921 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for The Americanization of Edward Bok
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Emory Holloway
American literary scholar and editor.
- 1927 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative
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Ernest Samuels (born 1903, died 1996)
American biographer.
- 1965 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Henry Adams
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Forrest Wilson (born 1883, died 1942)
American journalist and biographer.
- 1942 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Crusader in Crinoline
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Gregory White Smith
- 1991 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
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Hamlin Garland (born 1860, died 1940)
American short story writer.
- 1922 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for A Daughter of the Middle Border
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T. Harry Williams
- 1970 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Huey Long
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Henry Adams (born 1838, died 1918)
American historian.
- 1919 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for The Education of Henry Adams
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Henry F. Pringle
- 1932 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Theodore Roosevelt
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John F. Kennedy (born 1917, died 1963)
Thirty-fifth President of the U.S. Youngest person to be elected President.
- 1957 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Profiles in Courage
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John E. Mack
- 1977 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for A Prince of Our Disorder: A Life of T.E. Lawrence
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Joseph P. Lash (born 1909, died 1987)
American biographer.
- 1972 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Eleanor and Franklin
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Kenneth Silverman (born 1936)
American literary scholar, editor, and biographer.
- 1985 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
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Lawrence Thompson
- 1971 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915-1938
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Leonard Baker
- 1979 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews
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Lewis B. Puller, Jr. (born 1945, died 1994)
American soldier and writer.
- 1992 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet
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Louis Sheaffer
- 1974 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for O''Neill, Son and Artist
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Louis R. Harlan
- 1984 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915
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Marquis James
- 1930 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for The Raven
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Merlo J. Pusey
- 1952 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Charles Evans Hughes
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Michael Pupin
- 1924 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for From Immigrant to Inventor
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Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis
- 1976 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Edith Wharton: A Biography
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Ralph Barton Perry
- 1936 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for The Thought and Character of William James
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Ray Stannard Baker
- 1940 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters
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Richard Ellmann
- 1989 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Oscar Wilde
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Robert E. Sherwood (born 1896, died 1955)
American playwright and screenwriter.
- 1949 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Roosevelt and Hopkins
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Robert A. Caro
- 1975 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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Robert K. Massie
- 1981 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Peter the Great: His Life and World
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Russell Baker (born 1925)
American journalist and author.
- 1983 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Growing Up
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Russell Blaine Nye
- 1945 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel
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Samuel Eliot Morison (born 1887, died 1976)
American historian.
- Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, in 1943 for Admiral of the Ocean Sea and in 1960 for John Paul Jones
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Samuel Flagg Bemis (born 1891, died 1973)
American historian.
- 1950 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy
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Sebastian de Grazia
- 1990 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Machiavelli in Hell
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Steven Naifeh
- 1991 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
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Talbot F. Hamlin
- 1956 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Benjamin Henry Latrobe
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Tyler Dennett
- 1934 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for John Hay
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William Andrew Swanberg
- 1973 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Luce and His Empire
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Walter Jackson Bate (born 1918)
American literary critic and biographer.
- Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, in 1964 for John Keats and in 1978 for Samuel Johnson
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William S. White (born 1907)
American journalist.
- 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for The Taft Story
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William Cabell Bruce
- 1918 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed
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William Allen White (born 1868, died 1944)
American journalist.
- 1947 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for The Autobiography of William Allen White
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William S. McFeely
- 1982 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Grant: A Biography
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George F. Kennan (born 1904)
American diplomat and historian.
- 1968 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Memoirs
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Leon Edel (born 1907, died 1997)
American biographer.
- 1963 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Henry James, Volume II: The Conquest of London, 1870-1881, and Volume III: The Middle Years, 1881-1895
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Justin Kaplan (born 1925)
American biographer and scholar.
- 1967 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain
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Harvey Cushing (born 1869, died 1939)
American neurosurgeon and writer.
- 1926 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for The Life of Sir William Osler
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Henry James (born 1879, died 1947)
American lawyer and biographer.
- 1931 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Charles W. Eliot
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Odell Shepard
- 1938 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Pedlar''s Progress
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Jack Miles
American author.
- 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for God: A Biography
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Frank McCourt
- 1997 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Angela''s Ashes: A Memoir
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A. Scott Berg
- 1999 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Lindbergh
Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
This prize has been awarded annually since 1917 for a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author.
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Elizabeth Frank
- 1986 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Louise Bogan: A Portrait
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Laura E. Richards
- 1917 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Julia Ward Howe
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Margaret Clapp
- 1948 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow
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Margaret Louise Coit
- 1951 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for John C. Calhoun: American Portrait
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Maude Howe Elliott
- 1917 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Julia Ward Howe
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Ola Elizabeth Winslow
- 1941 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Jonathan Edwards
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Joan D. Hedrick
American author.
- 1995 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life
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Katharine Graham
American newspaper publisher.
- 1998 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Personal History
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Stacy Schiff
American biographer
- 2000 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography
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