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Pulitzer Prize
winners - Biography
or Autobiography
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|
 1917 |
Julia Ward Howe by Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott assisted by Florence Howe Hall (Houghton) |
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1918 |
Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed by William Cabell Bruce (Putnam) |
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1919 |
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams (Houghton) |
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1920 |
The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols. by Albert J. Beveridge (Houghton) |
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1921 |
The Americanization of Edward Bok by Edward Bok (Scribner) |
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1922 |
A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland (Macmillan) |
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1923 |
The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page by Burton J. Hendrick (Houghton) |
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1924 |
From Immigrant to Inventor by Michael Idvorsky Pupin (Scribner) |
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1925 |
Barrett Wendell and His Letters by M. A. Dewolfe Howe (Little) |
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1926 |
The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols. by Harvey Cushing (Oxford Univ. Press) |
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1927 |
Whitman by Emory Holloway (Knopf) |
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1928 |
The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas by Charles Edward Russell (Doubleday) |
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1929 |
The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page by Burton J. Hendrick (Houghton) |
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1930 |
The Raven by Marquis James (Bobbs) |
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1931 |
Charles W. Eliot by Henry James (Houghton) |
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1932 |
Theodore Roosevelt by Henry F. Pringle (Harcourt) |
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1933 |
Grover Cleveland by Allan Nevins (Dodd) |
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1934 |
John Hay by Tyler Dennett (Dodd) |
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1935 |
R. E. Lee by Douglas S. Freeman (Scribner) |
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1936 |
The Thought and Character of William James by Ralph Barton Perry (Little) |
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1937 |
Hamilton Fish by Allan Nevins (Dodd) |
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1938 |
Pedlar's Progress by Odell Shepard (Little) |
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1938 |
Andrew Jackson, 2 vols. by Marquis James (Bobbs) |
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1939 |
Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren (Viking) |
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1940 |
Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII by Ray Stannard Baker (Doubleday) |
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1941 |
Jonathan Edward by Ola Elizabeth Winslow (Macmillan) |
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1942 |
Crusader in Crinoline by Forrest Wilson (Lippincott) |
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1943 |
Admiral of the Ocean Sea by Samuel Eliot Morison (Little) |
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1944 |
The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse by Carleton Mabee (Knopf) |
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1945 |
George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel by Russell Blaine Nye (Knopf) |
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1946 |
Son of the Wilderness by Linnie Marsh Wolfe (Knopf) |
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1947 |
The Autobiography of William Allen White by William Allen White (Macmillan) |
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1948 |
Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow by Margaret Clapp (Little) |
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1949 |
Roosevelt and Hopkins by Robert E. Sherwood (Harper) |
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1950 |
John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis (Knopf) |
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1951 |
John C. Calhoun: American Portrait by Margaret Louise Coit (Houghton) |
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1952 |
Charles Evans Hughes by Merlo J. Pusey (Macmillan) |
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1953 |
Edmund Pendleton 1721-1803 by David J. Mays (Harvard Univ. Press) |
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1954 |
The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh (Scribner) |
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1955 |
The Taft Story by William S. White (Harper) |
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1956 |
Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Talbot Faulkner Hamlin (Oxford Univ. Press) |
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1957 |
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy (Harper) |
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1958 |
George Washington, Volumes I-VI by Douglas Southall Freeman, and Volume VII, written by John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth after Dr. Freeman's Death in 1953 (Scribner) |
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1959 |
Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet by Arthur Walworth (Longmans) |
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1960 |
John Paul Jones by Samuel Eliot Morison (Little) |
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1961 |
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War by David Donald (Knopf) |
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1962 |
(No Award) |
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1963 |
Henry James by Leon Edel (Lippincott) |
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1964 |
John Keats by Walter Jackson Bate (Harvard Univ. Press) |
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1965 |
Henry Adams, three volumes by Ernest Samuels (Harvard Univ. Press) |
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1966 |
A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (Houghton) |
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1 967 |
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain by Justin Kaplan (Simon & Schuster) |
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1968 |
Memoirs by George E. Kennan (Little) |
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1969 |
The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends by Benjamin Lawrence Reid (Oxford Univ. Press) |
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1970 |
Huey Long by T. Harry Williams (Knopf) |
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1971 |
Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915 -1938 by Lawrance Thompson (Holt) |
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1972 |
Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash (Norton) |
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1973 |
Luce and His Empire by W. A. Swanberg (Scribner) |
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1974 |
O'Neill, Son and Artist by Louis Sheaffer (Little) |
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1975 |
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro (Knopf) |
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1976 |
Edith Wharton: A Biography by R. W. B. Lewis (Harper) |
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1977 |
A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T E. Lawrence by John E. Mack (Harvard Univ. Press) |
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1978 |
Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate (Harcourt) |
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1979 |
Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews by Leonard Baker (Macmillan) |
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1980 |
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (Coward, McCann) |
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1981 |
Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie (Knopf) |
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1982 |
Grant: A Biography by William McFeely (Norton) |
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1983 |
Growing Up by Russell Baker (Congdon & Weed) |
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1984 |
Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 by Louis R. Harlan (Oxford U. Press) |
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1985 |
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman (Harper & Row) |
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1986 |
Louise Bogan: A Portrait by Elizabeth Frank (Alfred A. Knopf) |
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1987 |
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow (William Morrow) |
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988 |
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald (Little, Brown and Company) |
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1989 |
Oscar Wilde by the late Richard Ellmann (Alfred A. Knopf) |
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1990 |
Machiavelli in Hell by Sebastian de Grazia (Princeton University Press) |
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1991 |
Jackson Pollock by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith (Clarkson N. Potter) |
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1992 |
Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet by Lewis B. Puller, Jr. (Grove Weidenfeld) |
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1993 |
Truman by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster) |
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1994 |
W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis (Henry Holt) |
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1995 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life by Joan D. Hedrick (Oxford University Press) |
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1996 |
God: A Biography by Jack Miles (Alfred A. Knopf) |
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1997 |
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt (Scribner) |
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1998 |
Personal History by Katharine Graham (Alfred A. Knopf) |
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1999 |
Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg (G.P. Putnam's Sons) |
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2000 |
Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) by Stacy Schiff (Random House) |
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2001 |
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis (Henry Holt and Company |
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2002 |
John Adams by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster) |