Pulitzer Prize for Biography Public

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Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

  1. Personal History by 

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    In extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women--a book that is, as …

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    1998 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

  2. Lindbergh by 

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    From one of America's most acclaimed biographers, author of the bestselling lives of Maxwell Perkins and Samuel Goldwyn, here at …

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    1999 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

  3. Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) by 

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    At once a love story, a portrait of a marriage, and an answer to a riddle, Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) …

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    2000 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

  4. W.E.B. Du Bois by 

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    In this final, magisterial volume, fifteen years in the research and writing, the Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer David Levering Lewis stunningly …

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    2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

  5. John Adams by 

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    In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, …

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    2002 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

  6. Master of the Senate by  (The Years of Lyndon Johnson)

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    Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 …

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    2003 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

  7. Khrushchev by 

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    Remembered by many as the Soviet leader who banged his shoe at the United Nations, Nikita Khrushchev was in fact …

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    2004 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

  8. De Kooning by ,

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    Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, a true "painter's painter" whose protean …

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    2005 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

  9. American Prometheus by , , , and 1 other

    The first full-scale biography of the "father of the atomic bomb," the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led the effort to …

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    2006 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

  10. The Most Famous Man in America by 

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    No one predicted success for Henry Ward Beecher at his birth in 1813. The blithe, boisterous son of the last …

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    2007 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

  11. Eden's Outcasts by 

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    Louisa May Alcott's name is known universally. Yet, during her youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson—an eminent teacher, …

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    2008 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

  12. American Lion by 

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    Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about …

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    2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

  13. The First Tycoon by 

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    A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will creaed modern capitalism.

    Founder of a …

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    2010 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

  14. Washington by 

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    In Washington: A Life celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With …

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    2011 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

  15. George F. Kennan by 

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    In the late 1940s, George Kennan wrote two documents, the "Long Telegram" and the "X Article," which set forward the …

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    2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

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