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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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