Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Pulitzer Prize for Biography Public
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God: A Biography by Jack Miles
God. He is ubiquitous. He seems familiar to us, yet he remains mysterious. Who exactly is he? What is his …
Phil in SF says: 1996 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, …
Phil in SF says: 1997 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Personal History by Katharine Graham
In extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women--a book that is, as …
Phil in SF says: 1998 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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4 stars
From one of America's most acclaimed biographers, author of the bestselling lives of Maxwell Perkins and Samuel Goldwyn, here at …
Phil in SF says: 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) by Stacy Schiff
At once a love story, a portrait of a marriage, and an answer to a riddle, Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) …
Phil in SF says: 2000 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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W.E.B. Du Bois by David Levering Lewis
In this final, magisterial volume, fifteen years in the research and writing, the Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer David Levering Lewis stunningly …
Phil in SF says: 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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John Adams by David McCullough
3 stars
In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, …
Phil in SF says: 2002 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro (The Years of Lyndon Johnson)
5 stars
Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 …
Phil in SF says: 2003 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Remembered by many as the Soviet leader who banged his shoe at the United Nations, Nikita Khrushchev was in fact …
Phil in SF says: 2004 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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De Kooning by Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan
Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, a true "painter's painter" whose protean …
Phil in SF says: 2005 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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American Prometheus by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
5 stars
American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the atomic bomb," the brilliant, charismatic physicist …
Phil in SF says: 2006 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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The Most Famous Man in America by Debby Applegate
No one predicted success for Henry Ward Beecher at his birth in 1813. The blithe, boisterous son of the last …
Phil in SF says: 2007 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Eden's Outcasts by John Matteson
Louisa May Alcott's name is known universally. Yet, during her youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson—an eminent teacher, …
Phil in SF says: 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about …
Phil in SF says: 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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The First Tycoon by T. J. Stiles
A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will creaed modern capitalism.
Founder of a …
Phil in SF says: 2010 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
