The Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography is for "a distinguished and appropriately documented biography or autobiography by an American author."
1917 Winner
Julia Ward Howe
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1918 Winner
Benjamin Franklin Self-Revealed: a Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on His Own Writings: Volume I
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1919 Winner
The Education of Henry Adams
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1920 Winner
The Life of John Marshall, v. 1
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1921 Winner
The Americanization of Edward Bok: An Autobiography
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1922 Winner
A Daughter of the Middle Border
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1923 Winner
The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page
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1924 Winner
From Immigrant to Inventor
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1925 Winner
Barrett Wendell and His Letters
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1926 Winner
The Life of Sir William Osler, v. 1
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1927 Winner
Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative
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1928 Winner
The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas
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1929 Winner
Training of an American
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1930 Winner
The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston
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1931 Winner
Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University, 1869-1909
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1932 Winner
Theodore Roosevelt
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1933 Winner
Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage to the Loss of the Presidency
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1934 Winner
John Hay from Poetry to Politics
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1935 Winner
R.E. Lee
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1936 Winner
The Thought and Character of William James
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1937 Winner
Hamilton Fish: Memoir of an American Patriot
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1938 Winners
Pedlar's Progress: A Life of Bronson Alcott
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Andrew Jackson: Portrait of a President
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1939 Winner
Benjamin Franklin
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1940 Winner
Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters
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1941 Winner
Jonathan Edwards: 1703-1758
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1942 Winner
Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
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1943 Winner
Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus
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1944 Winner
The American Leonardo: A Life of F. B. Samuel Morse
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1945 Winner
George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel
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1946 Winner
Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir
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1947 Winner
The Autobiography of William Allen White
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1948 Winner
Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow
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1949 Winner
Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History
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1950 Winner
John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy
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1951 Winner
John C. Calhoun: American Portrait
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1952 Winner
Charles Evans Hughes
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1953 Winner
Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803
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1954 Winner
The Spirit of St. Louis
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1955 Winner
The Taft Story
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1956 Winner
Benjamin Henry Latrobe
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1957 Winner
Profiles in Courage
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1958 Winner
Washington
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1959 Winner
Woodrow Wilson
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1960 Winner
John Paul Jones
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1961 Winner
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
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1962 Winner
No award presented
1963 Winner
Henry James : A Life
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1964 Winner
John Keats
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1965 Winner
Henry Adams
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1966 Winner
A Thousand Days
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1967 Winner
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain
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1968 Winner
George Kennan Memoirs 1925-1950
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1969 Winner
The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends
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1970 Winner
Huey Long
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1971 Winner
Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915-1938
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1972 Winner
Eleanor and Franklin
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1973 Winner
Luce and His Empire
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1974 Winner
O'Neill : Son and Artist
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1975 Winner
The Power Broker
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1976 Winner
Edith Wharton
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1977 Winner
A Prince of Our Disorder
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1978 Winner
Samuel Johnson
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1979 Winner
Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeke and the Berlin Jews
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1980 Winner
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
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1981 Winner
Peter the Great: His Life and World
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1982 Winner
Grant: A Biography
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1983 Winner
Growing Up
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1984 Winner
Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915
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1985 Winner
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
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1986 Winner
Louise Bogan
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1987 Winner
Bearing the Cross
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1988 Winner
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
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1989 Winner
Oscar Wilde
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1990 Winner
Machiavelli in Hell
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1991 Winner
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
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1992 Winner
Fortunate Son: An Autobiography
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1993 Winner
Truman
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1994 Winner
W. E. B. Dubois: Biography of a Race
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1995 Winner
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life
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1996 Winner
God: A Biography
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1997 Winner
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
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1998 Winner
Personal History
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1999 Winner
Lindbergh
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2000 Winner
Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)
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2001 Winner
W. E. B. du Bois, 1919-1963
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2002 Winner
John Adams
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2003 Winner
Master of the Senate
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2004 Winner
Khrushchev
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2005 Winner
de Kooning: An American Master
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2006 Winner
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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2007 Winner
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
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2008 Winner
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
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2009 Winner
American Lion
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2010 Winner
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
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2011 Winner
Washington: A Life
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2012 Winner
George F. Kennan
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2013 Winner
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
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2014 Winner
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
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2015 Winner
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe
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2016 Winner
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
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2017 Winner
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
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2018 Winner
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
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2019 Winner
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
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2020 Winner
Sontag: Her Life and Work
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2021 Winner
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
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2022 Winner
Chasing Me to My Grave
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2023 Winner
G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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2024 Winners
King: a Life
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Master Slave Husband Wife
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