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The Pulitzer Prizes have been given annually since 1917 for the best American writing for journalism and for book length works in various categories. We feature the book length awards. The latest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography is featured below, along with a complete list of all previous winners of the Pulitzer Prize for biography. We also provide links to other Pulitzers, and to our index of dozens of book awards featured on Happy Dead Trees.
The latest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2008 - Eden's Outcasts by John Matteson (2009 award will be announced in April 2009)
All previous winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 1917 - Julia Ward Howe by Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott
1918 - Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed by William Cabell
1919 - The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams 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 Idvorsky Pupin
1925 - Barrett Wendell and His Letters by M.A. Dewolfe
1926 - The Life Of Sir William Osler, (2 Vols.) by Harvey Cushing
1927 - Whitman: An Interpretive Narrative 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
1930 - The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston by Marquis James
1931 - Charles W. Eliot: President of Harvard University, 1869 to 1909 by Henry James
1932 - Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography by Henry F. Pringle
1933 - Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage by Allan Nevins
1934 - John Hay: From Poetry to Politics by Tyler Dennett
1935 - R. E. Lee: A Biography (total of four volumes) by Douglas S. Freeman
1936 - The Thought and Character of William James by Ralph Barton Perry
1937 - Hamilton Fish: The Inner Story of the Grant Administration by Allan Nevins
1938 - Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott by Odell Shepard Andrew Jackson, (2 Vols.) by Marquis James (1 volume edition fairly common)
1939 - Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren
1940 - Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters (Vols. VII and VIII) by Ray Stannard Baker
1941 - Jonathan Edwards: A Biography, 1703 to 1758 by Ola Elizabeth Winslow
1942 - Crusader In Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe 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 Russell Blaine Nye
1946 - Son Of The Wilderness: The Life of John Muir 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: An Intimate History by Robert E. Sherwood
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
1959 - Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet by Arthur Walworth
1960 - John Paul Jones by Samuel Eliot Morison
1961 - Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War by David Donald
1962 - No Award
1963 - Henry James by Leon Edel
1964 - John Keats by Walter Jackson Bate
1965 - Henry Adams, 3 Volumes by Ernest Samuels
1966 - A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger
1967 - Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain by Justin Kaplan
1968 - Memoirs by George F. Kennan
1969 - The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends by Benjamin Lawrence Reid
1970 - Huey Long by T. Harry Williams
1971 - Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915-1938 by Lawrance 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
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 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 Ellman
1990 - Machiavelli In Hell by Sebastian de Grazia
1991 - Jackson Pollock by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
1992 - Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet by Lewis B. Puller, Jr.
1993 - Truman by David McCullough
1994 - W.E.B Du Bois: Biography of a Race 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 Katherine Graham
1999 - Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg
2000 - Vera (Mrs. Vladmir 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 by Robert A. Caro
2004 - Khrushchev: The Man and His Era 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: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate
2008 - Eden's Outcasts by John Matteson
2009 - Will be announced April 2009
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