Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
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Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie
A TITAN OF HISTORY, a maker of the modern world, a man of immense fascination, Peter the Great is brought …
Phil in SF says: 1981 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Grant: A Biography by William S. McFeely
This is a biography of a mid-nineteenth-century Ohio boy who couldn't hold a job but became the nation's commanding general …
Phil in SF says: 1982 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Russell Baker is the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist of the New York Times, and Growing Up is his enchanting memoir. …
Phil in SF says: 1983 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Booker T. Washington by Louis R. Harlan
The first volume of Louis R. Harlan's biography of Booker T. Washington, The Making of a Black Lead, 1856—1901, …
Phil in SF says: 1984 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman
Presents a comprehensive look at the quintessential Puritan, from his private home life to his involvement in the Salem witch …
Phil in SF says: 1985 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Louise Bogan by Elizabeth Frank
This moving, beautifully rounded portrait explores the life and art of the celebrated poet and New Yorker critic who was, …
Phil in SF says: 1986 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Bearing the Cross by David J. Garrow
Bearing the Cross is the most comprehensive book ever written about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As …
Phil in SF says: 1987 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Based on the papers of the Wolfe Estate, this biography reveals for the first time the personal life of the …
Phil in SF says: 1988 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann
'How ridiculous of you to suppose that anyone, least of all my dear mother, would christen me "plain Oscar:- he …
Phil in SF says: 1989 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Machiavelli in Hell by Sebastian De Grazia
In this intellectual biography Sebastian de Grazia presents a new Machiavelli—in a way that gives an almost uncanny sense of …
Phil in SF says: 1990 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Jackson Pollock by Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith
Jackson Pollock was more than a great artist, he was a creative force of nature. He changed not only the …
Phil in SF says: 1991 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Fortunate Son by Lewis B. Puller Jr
Lewis B. Puller, Jr.—the son of "Chesty" Puller, a hero of World War II and the Korean War and the …
Phil in SF says: 1992 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Here at last is the first full-scale biography of Harry S. Truman, his life and times, by David McCullough, distinguished …
Phil in SF says: 1993 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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W.E.B. Du Bois by David Levering Lewis
The hypnotic Old Testament voice of W.E.B. Du Bois thunders out of David Levering Lewis's monumental biography like a locomotive …
Phil in SF says: 1994 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Harriet Beecher Stowe by Joan D. Hedrick
In this landmark book, the first full-scale biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe in over fifty years, Joan D. Hedrick tells …
Phil in SF says: 1995 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
