Pulitzer prize biography ranking

Pulitzer Prize for Biography

American award for distinguished biographies

The Pulitzer Prize for Biography is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. The award honors "a distinguished and appropriately documented biography by an American author."[1] Award winners received $15, USD.[1]

From to , this prize was known as the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and was awarded to a distinguished biography, autobiography or memoir[2] by an American author or co-authors, published during the preceding calendar year.

Thus it is one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year.[3]

Recipients

In its first 97 years to , the Biography Pulitzer was awarded 97 times. Two were given in , and none in [4]

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Year Author Title Ref.

Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe HallJulia Ward Howe
William Cabell BruceBenjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed
Henry AdamsThe Education of Henry Adams
Albert J.

Beveridge

The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols.
Edward BokThe Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After
Hamlin GarlandA Daughter of the Middle Border
Burton J.

Hendrick

The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page
Michael I. PupinFrom Immigrant to Inventor
M. A. De Wolfe HoweBarrett Wendell and His Letters
Harvey CushingThe Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols.

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    • Emory HollowayWhitman
    Charles Edward RussellThe American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas
    Burton J. HendrickThe Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page
    Marquis JamesThe Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston
    Henry JamesCharles W.

    Eliot, President of Harvard University, –

    Henry F. PringleTheodore Roosevelt: A Biography
    Allan NevinsGrover Cleveland: A Study in Courage
    Tyler DennettJohn Hay
    Douglas S. FreemanR. E.

    Lee

    Ralph Barton PerryThe Thought and Character of William James
    Allan NevinsHamilton Fish
    Marquis JamesAndrew Jackson, 2 vols.
    Odell ShepardPedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott
    Carl Van DorenBenjamin Franklin
    Ray Stannard BakerWoodrow Wilson, Life and Letters.

    Vols. VII and VIII

    Ola Elizabeth WinslowJonathan Edwards, – a biography
    Forrest WilsonCrusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Samuel Eliot MorisonAdmiral of the Ocean Sea
    Carleton MabeeThe American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F.

    B. Morse

    		[5]
    Russel Blaine NyeGeorge Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel
    Linnie Marsh WolfeSon of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir
    William Allen WhiteThe Autobiography of William Allen White
    Margaret ClappForgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow
    Robert E.

    Sherwood

    		Roosevelt and Hopkins

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    Entries from this point on include the finalists listed after the winner for each year.

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    Year Author(s) Title Result Ref.
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    J. Stiles

    		The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius VanderbiltWinner [34]
    Blake BaileyCheever: A LifeFinalist
    John Milton Cooper, Jr.Woodrow Wilson: A BiographyFinalist
    Ron ChernowWashington: A LifeWinner [35][36]
    Alan BrinkleyThe Publisher: Henry Luce and His American CenturyFinalist
    Michael O'BrienMrs.

    Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon

    		Finalist
    John Lewis GaddisGeorge F. Kennan: An American LifeWinner [37][38]
    Mary GabrielLove and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a RevolutionFinalist [38]
    Manning MarableMalcolm X: A Life of ReinventionFinalist [38]
    Tom ReissThe Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte CristoWinner [39]
    Michael GorraPortrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American MasterpieceFinalist [39]
    David NasawThe Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P.

    Kennedy

    		Finalist [39]
    Megan MarshallMargaret Fuller: A New American LifeWinner [40][41]
    Leo DamroschJonathan Swift: His Life and His WorldFinalist
    Jonathan SperberKarl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century LifeFinalist
    David I.

    Kertzer

    		The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in EuropeWinner [42][43]
    Thomas BrothersLouis Armstrong: Master of ModernismFinalist
    Stephen KotkinStalin: Paradoxes of Power, –Finalist
    William FinneganBarbarian Days: A Surfing LifeWinner [44][45]
    Elizabeth AlexanderThe Light of the World: A MemoirFinalist
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    J. Stiles

    		Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New AmericaFinalist
    Hisham MatarThe Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in BetweenWinner [46][47]
    Susan FaludiIn the DarkroomFinalist
    Paul KalanithiWhen Breath Becomes AirFinalist
    Caroline FraserPrairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls WilderWinner [48][49]
    John A.

    Farrell

    		Richard Nixon: The LifeFinalist [48]
    Kay Redfield JamisonRobert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and CharacterFinalist [48]
    Jeffrey C.

    Stewart

    		The New Negro: The Life of Alain LockeWinner [50][51]
    Max BootThe Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in VietnamFinalist [50]
    Caroline WeberProust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle ParisFinalist [50]

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    Repeat winners

    Ten people have won the Pulitzer for Biography or Autobiography twice:

    • Burton J.

      Hendrick, ,

    • Allan Nevins, ,
    • Marquis James, ,
    • Douglas S. Freeman, ,
    • Samuel Eliot Morison, ,
    • Walter Jackson Bate, ,
    • David Herbert Donald, ,
    • David Levering Lewis, ,
    • David McCullough, ,
    • Robert Caro, ,

    W. A. Swanberg was selected by the Pulitzer board in and ; however, the trustees of Columbia University (then responsible for conferral of the awards) overturned the proposed prize for Citizen Hearst.[7]

    See also

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