Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
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In Washington: A Life celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With …
Phil in SF says: 2011 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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George F. Kennan by John Lewis Gaddis
In the late 1940s, George Kennan wrote two documents, the "Long Telegram" and the "X Article," which set forward the …
Phil in SF says: 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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By the author of the internationally bestselling biography The Orientalist, The Black Count brings to life one of history’s great …
Phil in SF says: 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Margaret Fuller by Megan Marshall
From an early age, Margaret Fuller provoked and dazzled New England’s intellectual elite. Her famous Conversations changed women’s sense of …
Phil in SF says: 2014 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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The Pope and Mussolini by David I. Kertzer
From National Book Award finalist David I. Kertzer comes the gripping story of Pope Pius XI’s secret relations with Italian …
Phil in SF says: 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Barbarian Days by William Finnegan
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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, …
Phil in SF says: 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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When Hisham Matar was a nineteen-year-old university student in England, his father was kidnapped. One of the Qaddafi regime’s most …
Phil in SF says: 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser
The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the "Little House on the Prairie" books …
Phil in SF says: 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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The New Negro by Jeffrey C. Stewart
A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of …
Phil in SF says: 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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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 …
Phil in SF says: 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne, Tamara Payne
An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author’s interviews, rewriting much of …
Phil in SF says: 2021 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Chasing Me to My Grave by Winfred Rembert, Erin I. Kelly
Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager. …
Phil in SF says: 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage
A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a …
Phil in SF says: 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo
In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the …
Phil in SF says: 2024 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil …
Phil in SF says: 2024 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
