Pulitzer Prize: Letters: Biography or Autobiography
The Pulitzer Prizes are annual awards for achievements in American
journalism, letters, drama and music. The prizes have been awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board at Columbia University
since 1917.
- 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, by Robert A. Caro
- 2002 John Adams, by David McCullough
- 2001 W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919 - 1963, 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, by Frank McCourt
- 1996 God: A Biography by Jack Miles
- 1995 No ordinary time, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- 1994 W. E. B. DuBois, by D. Lewis
- 1993 Truman, by David McCullough
- 1992 Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet, by
Lewis B. Puller, Jr.
- 1991 Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, by Steven Naifeh
and Gregory White Smith
- 1990 Machiavelli in Hell, by Sebastian Grazia
- 1989 Oscar Wilde, by Richard Ellmann
- 1988 Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolf, by David
Herbert Donald
- 1987 Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference, 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, 1901-1915,
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 Sarrow 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, 1915-1938, by
Lawrence Thompson
- 1970 Huey Long, by T. Harry Williams
- 1969 The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends,
by Benjamin Lawrence Reid
- 1968 Memoirs, by George F. Kennan
- 1967 Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, by Justin Kaplan
- 1966 A Thousand Days, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
- 1965 Henry Adams, three volumes by Ernest Samuels
- 1964 John Keats, by Walter Jackson Bate
- 1963 Henry James, by Leon Edel
- 1962 No Award
- 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 Washington Volumes I-VI, by Douglas S.
Freeman, and Volume VII, written by John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells
Ashworth after Dr.Freeman’s death
- 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 and the Foundations of 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 Russell Blaine
Nye
- 1944 The American Leonardo: the Life of Samuel F.B. Morse,
by Carlton Mabee
- 1943 Admiral of the Ocean Sea, by Samuel Eliot Morison
- 1942 Crusader in Crinoline, by Forrest Wilson
- 1941 Jonathan Edwards, by Ola Elizabeth Winslow
- 1940 Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters, Volumes VII and
VIII by Ray Stannard Baker
- 1939 Benjamin Franklin, by Carl Van Doren
- 1938 Andrew Jackson, 2 volumes, by Marquis James &
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: The Earlier Life and Letters of
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 volumes, by Harvey
Cushing
- 1925 Barrett Wendell and His Letter, 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 volumes, 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 Maude Howe
Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall
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