Pulitzer Prize for Biography Public

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Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

  1. Washington: A Life by 

    4 stars

    Washington: A Life is a biography of George Washington, the first president of the United States, written by American historian …

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    2011 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

  2. 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

  3. The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by 

    5 stars

    The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo is a 2012 biography of General Thomas-Alexandre …

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    2013 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

  4. Margaret Fuller by 

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    rom an early age, Margaret Fuller provoked and dazzled New England’s intellectual elite. Her famous Conversations changed women’s sense of …

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    2014 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

  5. The Pope and Mussolini by 

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    From National Book Award finalist David I. Kertzer comes the gripping story of Pope Pius XI's secret relations with Italian …

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    2015 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

  6. Barbarian Days by 

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    Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, …

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    2016 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

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    2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

  8. Prairie Fires by 

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    The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the "Little House on the Prairie" books …

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    2018 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

  9. The New Negro by 

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    A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of …

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    2019 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

  10. Sontag by 

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    The definitive portrait of one of the American Century's most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public …

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    2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

  11. The Dead Are Arising by ,

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    An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author’s interviews, rewriting much of …

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    2021 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

  12. Chasing Me to My Grave by ,

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    Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager. …

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    2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

  13. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by 

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    A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a …

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    2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

  14. Master Slave Husband Wife by 

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    In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the …

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    2024 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

  15. King : a Life by 

    5 stars

    A biography of Martin Luther King Jr.

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    2024 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

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