PULITZER PRIZE for BIOGRAPHY

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.

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• 2004 Khrushchev: The Man and His Era William Taubman
• 2003 Master of the Senate Robert O. Caro
• 2002 John Adams David McCullough (973.44 ADA)
• 2001 W E B DuBois (volume 2) David Levering Lewis
• 2000 Vera Stacy Schiff (891.734 NAB)
• 1999 Lindbergh A. Scott Berg (629.13092 LIN)
• 1998 Personal History Katharine Graham (071 GRA)
• 1997 Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt (941.94 MCC)
• 1996 God: A Biography Jack Miles (231 MIL)
• 1995 No Ordinary Time Doris Kearns Goodwin (973.917 ROO)
• 1994 W. E. B. DuBois D. Lewis
• 1993 Truman David McCullough (973.918 TRU)
• 1992 Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam vet Lewis B. Puller Jr. (959.7043 PUL)
• 1991 Jackson Pollock: An American Saga Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith (759.13 POL)
• 1990 Machiavelli in Hell Sebastian Grazia
• 1989 Oscar Wilde Richard Ellmann (822.8 WIL)
• 1988 Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe David Herbert Donald (813.52 WOL)
• 1987 Bearing the cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference David J. Garrow
• 1986 Louise Bogan: A Portrait Elizabeth Frank
• 1985 The Life and Times of Cotton Mather Kenneth Silverman
• 1984 Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee 1901-1915 Louis R. Harlan
• 1983 Growing Up Russell Baker (071.3 BAK)
• 1982 Grant: A Biography William S. McFeely
• 1981 Peter the Great: His Life and World Robert K. Massie (947.05 PET)
• 1980 The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Edmund Morris
• 1979 Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews Leonard Baker
• 1978 Samuel Johnson Walter Jackson Bate (824.63 BAT)
• 1977 A Prince of our Disorder: The Life of T.E. Lawrence John E. Mack (953 LAW)
• 1976 Edith Wharton: A biography R.W.B. Lewis
• 1975 The Power broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Robert Caro
• 1974 O’Neill, Son and Artist Louis Sheaffer (812.5 ONE)
• 1973 Luce and His Empire W.A. Swanberg
• 1972 Eleanor and Franklin Joseph P. Lash (973.917 ROO)
• 1971 Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph 1915-1938 Lawrence Thompson (811.52 FRO)
• 1970 Huey Long T. Harry Williams
• 1969 The Man from New York: John Quinn and His Friends Benjamin Lawrence Reid (704.36 QUI)
• 1968 Memoirs George F. Kennan 
• 1967 Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain Justin Kaplan (813.4 TWA)
• 1966 A Thousand Days: J F Kennedy in the White House Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (973.922 KEN)
• 1965 Henry Adams (three volumes) Ernest Samuels
• 1964 John Keats Walter Jackson Bate
• 1963 Henry James Leon Edel (813.46 EDE)
• 1962 No Award
• 1961 Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War David Donald
• 1960 John Paul Jones Samuel Eliot Morison
• 1959 Woodrow Wilson American Prophet Arthur Walworth
• 1958 George Washington Volumes I-VI Douglas S. Freeman and Volume VII written John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth after Dr. Freeman’s death
• 1957 Profiles in Courage John F. Kennedy (920.2 KEN)
• 1956 Benjamin Henry Latrobe Talbot Faulkner Hamlin
• 1955 The Taft Story William S. White
• 1954 The Spirit of St. Louis Charles A. Lindbergh (629.13 LIN)
• 1953 Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803 David J. Mays
• 1952 Charles Evans Hughes Merlo J. Pusey
• 1951 John C. Calhoun: American Portrait Margaret Louise Coit
• 1950 John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy Samuel Flagg Bemis
• 1949 Roosevelt and Hopkins Robert E. Sherwood
• 1948 Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow Margaret Clapp
• 1947 The Autobiography of William Allen White William Allen White
• 1946 Son of the Wilderness Linnie Marsh Wolfe
• 1945 George Bancroft: Brahmin rebel Russell Blaine Nye
• 1944 The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F.B. Morse Carlton Mabee
• 1943 Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus Samuel Eliot Morison (973.15 COL)
• 1942 Crusader in Crinoline: a Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Forrest Wilson (813.37 WIL)
• 1941 Jonathan Edwards Ola Elizabeth Winslow
• 1940 Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters Volumes VII and VIII Ray Stannard Baker
• 1939 Benjamin Franklin Carl Van Doren (973.2 FRA)
• 1938 Andrew Jackson (2 volumes) Marquis James & Pedlar’s Progress Odell Shepard
• 1937 Hamilton Fish Allan Nevins
• 1936 The Thought and Character of William James Ralph Barton Perry (109QK JAM)
• 1935 R.E. Lee Douglas S. Freeman
• 1934 John Hay Tyler Dennett
• 1933 Grover Cleveland Allan Nevins
• 1932 Theodore Roosevelt Henry F. Pringle
• 1931 Charles W. Eliot Henry James
• 1930 The Raven Marquis James
• 1929 The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page Burton J. Hendrick
• 1928 The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas Charles Edward Russell
• 1927 Whitman Emory Holloway
• 1926 The Life of Sir William Osler (2 volumes) Harvey Cushing
• 1925 Barrett Wendell and His Letter M.A. DeWolfe Howe
• 1924 From Immigrant to Inventor Michael Idvorsky Pupin
• 1923 The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page Burton J. Hendrick
• 1922 A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland
• 1921 The Americanization of Edward Bok Edward Bok
• 1920 The Life of John Marshall (4 volumes) Albert J. Beveridge
• 1919 The Education of Henry Adams Henry Adams (818.4 ADA)
• 1918 Benjamin Franklin Self-revealed William Cabell Bruce
• 1917 Julia Ward Howe Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall
• 1917 Julia Ward Howe by Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall