Pulitzer Prize Winners - Biography or Autobiography

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  1. 2011: Washington : A Life -- Ron Chernow
  2. 2010: The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt -- T.J Stiles
  3. 2009: American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House -- Jon Meacham
  4. 2008: Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father -- John Matteson
  5. 2007: The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher Debby Applegate
  6. 2006: American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer -- Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
  7. 2005: de Kooning: An American Master -- Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
  8. 2004: Khrushchev: The Man and His Era -- William Taubman
  9. 2003: Master of the Senate -- Robert A. Caro
  10. 2002: John Adams -- David McCullough
  11. 2001: W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 -- David Levering Lewis
  12. 2000: Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) -- Stacy Schiff
  13. 1999: Lindbergh -- A. Scott Berg
  14. 1998: Personal History -- Katharine Graham
  15. 1997: Angela's Ashes: A Memoir -- Frank McCourt
  16. 1996: God: A Biography -- Jack Miles
  17. 1995: Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
  18. 1994: W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919 -- David Levering Lewis
  19. 1993: Truman -- David McCullough
  20. 1992: Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet -- Lewis B. Puller
  21. 1991: Jackson Pollock -- Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
  22. 1990: Machiavelli in Hell -- Sebastian de Grazia
  23. 1989: Oscar Wilde -- Richard Ellmann
  24. 1988: Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe -- David Herbert Donald
  25. 1987: Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference -- David J. Garrow
  26. 1986: Louise Bogan: A Portrait -- Elizabeth Frank
  27. 1985: The Life and Times of Cotton Mather -- Kenneth Silverman
  28. 1984: Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 -- Louis R. Harlan
  29. 1983: Growing Up -- Russell Baker
  30. 1982: Grant: A Biography -- William McFeely
  31. 1981: Peter the Great: His Life and World -- Robert K. Massie
  32. 1980: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt -- Edmund Morris
  33. 1979: Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews -- Leonard Baker
  34. 1978: Samuel Johnson -- Walter Jackson Bate
  35. 1977: A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence -- John E. Mack
  36. 1976: Edith Wharton: A Biography -- R. W. B. Lewis
  37. 1975: The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York -- Robert Caro
  38. 1974: O'Neill, Son and Artist -- Louis Sheaffer
  39. 1973: Luce and His Empire -- W. A. Swanberg
  40. 1972: Eleanor and Franklin -- Joseph P. Lash
  41. 1971: Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915-1938 -- Lawrance Thompson
  42. 1970: Huey Long -- T. Harry Williams
  43. 1969: The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends -- Benjamin Lawrence Reid
  44. 1968: Memoirs -- George F. Kennan
  45. 1967: Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain -- Justin Kaplan
  46. 1966: A Thousand Days -- Arthur M. Schlesinger
  47. 1965: Henry Adams, three volumes -- Ernest Samuels
  48. 1964: John Keats -- Walter Jackson Bate
  49. 1963: Henry James -- Leon Edel
  50. 1962: No award
  51. 1961: Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War -- David Donald
  52. 1960: John Paul Jones -- Samuel Eliot Morison
  53. 1959: Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet Arthur Walworth
  54. 1958: George Washington, Volumes I-VI -- Douglas Southall Freeman
  55. 1957: Profiles in Courage -- John F. Kennedy
  56. 1956: Benjamin Henry Latrobe -- Talbot Faulkner Hamlin
  57. 1955: The Taft Story -- William S. White
  58. 1954: The Spirit of St. Louis -- Charles A. Lindbergh
  59. 1953: Edmund Pendleton 1721-1803 -- David J. Mays
  60. 1952: Charles Evans Hughes -- Merlo J. Pusey
  61. 1951: John C. Calhoun: American Portrait -- Margaret Louise Coit
  62. 1950: John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy -- Samuel Flagg Bemis
  63. 1949: Roosevelt and Hopkins -- Robert E. Sherwood
  64. 1948: Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow -- Margaret Clapp
  65. 1947: The Autobiography of William Allen White -- William Allen White
  66. 1946: Son of the Wilderness Linnie Marsh Wolfe
  67. 1945: George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel -- Russell Blaine Nye
  68. 1944: The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse -- Carleton Mabee
  69. 1943: Admiral of the Ocean Sea -- Samuel Eliot Morison
  70. 1942: Crusader in Crinoline -- Forrest Wilson
  71. 1941: Jonathan Edward -- Ola Elizabeth Winslow
  72. 1940: Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII -- Ray Stannard Baker
  73. 1939: Benjamin Franklin -- Carl Van Doren
  74. 1938: Andrew Jackson, 2 vols. -- Marquis James and
  75. 1938: Pedlar's Progress -- Odell Shepard
  76. 1937: Hamilton Fish -- Allan Nevins
  77. 1936: The Thought and Character of William James -- Ralph Barton Perry
  78. 1935: R. E. Lee -- Douglas S. Freeman
  79. 1934: John Hay -- Tyler Dennett
  80. 1933: Grover Cleveland -- Allan Nevins
  81. 1932: Theodore Roosevelt -- Henry F. Pringle
  82. 1931: Charles W. Eliot -- Henry James
  83. 1930: The Raven -- Marquis James
  84. 1929: The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page -- Burton J. Hendrick
  85. 1928: The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas -- Charles Edward Russell
  86. 1927: Whitman -- Emory Holloway
  87. 1926: he Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols. -- Harvey Cushing
  88. 1925: Barrett Wendell and His Letters -- M. A. Dewolfe Howe
  89. 1924: From Immigrant to Inventor -- Michael Idvorsky Pupin
  90. 1923: The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page -- Burton J. Hendrick
  91. 1922: A Daughter of the Middle Border -- Hamlin Garland
  92. 1921: The Americanization of Edward Bok -- Edward Bok
  93. 1920: The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols. -- Albert J. Beveridge
  94. 1919: The Education of Henry Adams -- Henry Adams
  95. 1918: Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed -- William Cabell Bruce
  96. 1917: Julia Ward Howe -- Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott assisted -- Florence Howe Hall