Pulitzer Prize Winners for Biography or Autobiography
Submitted by dashforcover on Wed, 11/26/2008 - 11:25
- 2009: American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
- 2008: Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson
- 2007: The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher Debby Applegate
- 2006: American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
- 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: A Memoir , by Frank McCourt
- 1996: God: A Biography by Jack Miles
- 1995: Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- 1994 W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis
- 1993: Truman, by David McCullough
- 1992: Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet, by Lewis B. Puller
- 1991: Jackson Pollock, by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
- 1990: Machiavelli in Hell, by Sebastian de Grazia
- 1989: Oscar Wilde, by Richard Ellmann
- 1988: Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe, 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 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 Sorrow 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 Lawrance 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
- 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, Arthur Walworth
- 1958: George Washington, Volumes I-VI, by Douglas Southall Freeman
- 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, Linnie Marsh Wolfe
- 1945: George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel, by Russell Blaine Nye
- 1944: The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse, by Carleton Mabee
- 1943: Admiral of the Ocean Sea, by Samuel Eliot Morison
- 1942: Crusader in Crinoline, by Forrest Wilson
- 1941: Jonathan Edward, by Ola Elizabeth Winslow
- 1940: Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII, by Ray Stannard Baker
- 1939: Benjamin Franklin, by Carl Van Doren
- 1938: Andrew Jackson, 2 vols., by Marquis James and
- 1938: 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: he Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols., by Harvey Cushing
- 1925: Barrett Wendell and His Letters, 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 vols., 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
