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The Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author.^[1]

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7 1970s
8 1980s
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1910s

1917: Julia Ward Howe by Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall
1918: Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed by William Cabell Bruce
1919: The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

1920s

1920: The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols. by Albert J. Beveridge
1921: The Americanization of Edward Bok by Edward Bok
1922: A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
1923: The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page by Burton J. Hendrick
1924: From Immigrant to Inventor by Michael I. Pupin
1925: Barrett Wendell and His Letters by M. A. Dewolfe Howe
1926: The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols. by Harvey Cushing
1927: Whitman by Emory Holloway
1928: The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas by Charles Edward Russell
1929: The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page by Burton J. Hendrick

1930s

1930: The Raven by Marquis James
1931: Charles W. Eliot]] by Henry James
1932: Theodore Roosevelt by Henry F. Pringle
1933: Grover Cleveland by Allan Nevins
1934: John Hay by Tyler Dennett
1935: R. E. Lee by Douglas S. Freeman
1936: The Thought and Character of William James by Ralph Barton Perry
1937: Hamilton Fish by Allan Nevins
1938: Pedlar's Progress by Odell Shepard
1938: Andrew Jackson, 2 vols. by Marquis James
1939: Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren

1940s

1940: Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII by Ray Stannard Baker
1941: Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758: a biography by Ola Elizabeth Winslow
1942: Crusader in Crinoline by Forrest Wilson
1943: Admiral of the Ocean Sea by Samuel Eliot Morison
1944: The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse by Carleton Mabee
1945: George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel by Russel Blaine Nye
1946: Son of the Wilderness by Linnie Marsh Wolfe
1947: The Autobiography of William Allen White by William Allen White
1948: Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow by Margaret Clapp
1949: Roosevelt and Hopkins by Robert E. Sherwood

1950s

1950: John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis
1951: John C. Calhoun: American Portrait by Margaret Louise Coit
1952: Charles Evans Hughes by Merlo J. Pusey
1953: Edmund Pendleton 1721–1803 by David J. Mays
1954: The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh
1955: The Taft Story by William S. White
1956: Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Talbot Faulkner Hamlin
1957: Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
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
1959: Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet by Arthur Walworth

1960s

1960: John Paul Jones by Samuel Eliot Morison
1961: Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War by David Donald
1962: no award given ^[2]
1963: Henry James by Leon Edel
1964: John Keats by Walter Jackson Bate
1965: Henry Adams, 3 vols., by Ernest Samuels
1966: A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
1967: Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain by Justin Kaplan
1968: Memoirs by George Frost Kennan
1969: The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends by Benjamin Lawrence Reid

1970s

1970: Huey Long by Thomas Harry Williams
1971: Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915–1938 by Lawrence Thompson
1972: Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash
1973: Luce and His Empire by W. A. Swanberg
1974: O'Neill, Son and Artist by Louis Sheaffer
1975: The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro
1976: Edith Wharton: A Biography by R. W. B. Lewis
1977: A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T E. Lawrence by John E. Mack
1978: Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate
1979: Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews by Leonard Baker

1980s

1980: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
1981: Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie
1982: Grant: A Biography by William S. McFeely
1983: Growing Up by Russell Baker
1984: Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915 by Louis R. Harlan
1985: The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman
1986: Louise Bogan: A Portrait by Elizabeth Frank
1987: Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow
1988: Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald
1989: Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann

1990s

1990: Machiavelli in Hell by Sebastian de Grazia
1991: Jackson Pollock: An American Saga by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
1992: Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller Jr. by Lewis B. Puller
1993: Truman by David McCullough
1994: W.E.B. Du Bois : Biography of a Race, 1868–1919 by David Levering Lewis
1995: Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life by Joan D. Hedrick
1996: God: A Biography by Jack Miles
1997: Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
1998: Personal History by Katharine Graham
1999: Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg

2000s

2000: Vera, Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov by Stacy Schiff
2001: W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and The American Century, 1919–1963 by David Levering Lewis
2002: John Adams by David McCullough
2003: Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro
2004: Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (ISBN 0-393-05144-7) by William Taubman
2005: de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
2006: American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
2007: The Most Famous Man in America by Debby Applegate
2008: Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson
2009: American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham

2010s

2010: The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles
2011: Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

References

^ "Pulitzer Prize Winners: Biography or Autobiography". pulitzer.org. http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Biography+or+Autobiography. Retrieved 2008-10-01.
^ In 1962 the Pulitzer board awarded the prize to W.A. Swanberg's Citizen Hearst. The trustees of Columbia University, who administer the prize, overturned the award, refusing to honor a book that took a critical look at William Randolph Hearst. McDowell, Edwin. "Publishing: Pulitzer Controversies." The New York Times 11 May 1984: C26.

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1917–1925	Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall (1917) William Cabell Bruce (1918) Henry Adams (1919) Albert J. Beveridge (1920) Edward Bok (1921) Hamlin Garland (1922) Burton J. Hendrick (1923) Michael I. Pupin (1924) M. A. Dewolfe Howe (1925)

1926–1950	Harvey Cushing (1926) Emory Holloway (1927) Charles Edward Russell (1928) Burton J. Hendrick (1929) Marquis James (1930) Henry James (1931) Henry F. Pringle (1932) Allan Nevins (1933) Tyler Dennett (1934) Douglas S. Freeman (1935) Ralph Barton Perry (1936) Allan Nevins (1937) Odell Shepard/Marquis James (1938) Carl Van Doren (1939) Ray Stannard Baker (1940) Ola Elizabeth Winslow (1941) Forrest Wilson (1942) Samuel Eliot Morison (1943) Carleton Mabee (1944) Russel Blaine Nye (1945) Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1946) William Allen White (1947) Margaret Clapp (1948) Robert E. Sherwood (1949) Samuel Flagg Bemis (1950)

1951–1975	Margaret Louise Coit (1951) Merlo J. Pusey (1952) David J. Mays (1953) Charles A. Lindbergh (1954) William S. White (1955) Talbot Faulkner Hamlin (1956) John F. Kennedy (1957) Douglas Southall Freeman, John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth (1958) Arthur Walworth (1959) Samuel Eliot Morison (1960) David Donald (1961) Leon Edel (1963) Walter Jackson Bate (1964) Ernest Samuels (1965) Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1966) Justin Kaplan (1967) George Frost Kennan (1968) Benjamin Lawrence Reid (1969) Thomas Harry Williams (1970) Lawrence Thompson (1971) Joseph P. Lash (1972) W. A. Swanberg (1973) Louis Sheaffer (1974) Robert Caro (1975)

1976–2000	R. W. B. Lewis (1976) John E. Mack (1977) Walter Jackson Bate (1978) Leonard Baker (1979) Edmund Morris (1980) Robert K. Massie (1981) William S. McFeely (1982) Russell Baker (1983) Louis R. Harlan (1984) Kenneth Silverman (1985) Elizabeth Frank (1986) David J. Garrow (1987) David Herbert Donald (1988) Richard Ellmann (1989) Sebastian de Grazia (1990) Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith (1991) Lewis B. Puller (1992) David McCullough (1993) David Levering Lewis (1994) Joan D. Hedrick (1995) Jack Miles (1996) Frank McCourt (1997) Katharine Graham (1998) A. Scott Berg (1999) Stacy Schiff (2000)

2001–2025	David Levering Lewis (2001) David McCullough (2002) Robert Caro (2003) William Taubman (2004) Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan (2005) Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (2006) Debby Applegate (2007) John Matteson (2008) Jon Meacham (2009) T.J. Stiles (2010) Ron Chernow (2011)

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