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Pulitzer Prize Winners for Biography or Autobiography
1910s
| 1917 | Julia Ward Howe by Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott assisted by Florence
Howe Hall |
| 1918 | Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed by William Cabell Bruce |
| 1919 | The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams |
1920s
| 1920 | The Life of John Marshall 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 Howe |
| 1926 | The Life of Sir William Osler by Harvey Cushing |
| 1927 | Whitman 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 by Marquis James |
| 1931 | Charles W. Eliot by Henry James |
| 1932 | Theodore Roosevelt by Henry F. Pringle |
| 1933 | Grover Cleveland by Allan Nevins |
| 1934 | John Hay by Tyler Dennett |
| 1935 | R.E. Lee by Douglas S. Freeman |
| 1936 | The Thought and Character of William James by Ralph Barton Perry |
| 1937 | Hamilton Fish by Allan Nevins |
| 1938 | Pedlar's Progress by Odell Shepard, Andrew Jackson by Marquis James |
| 1939 | Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren |
| 1940 | Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters, Vol. VII and VIII by Ray Stannard Baker |
| 1941 | Jonathan Edwards by Ola Elizabeth Winslow |
| 1942 | Crusader in Crinoline 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 Carlton Mabee |
| 1945 | George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel by Russell Blaine Nye |
| 1946 | Son of the Wilderness by Linnie Marsh Wolfe |
| 1947 | The Autobiography of William Allen White |
| 1948 | Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow by Margaret Clapp |
| 1949 | Roosevelt and Hopkins 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 Louis 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 F. Hamlin |
| 1957 | Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy |
| 1958 | George Washington by Douglas S. Freeman (Vol. 1-6), John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth (Vol. 7) |
| 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 Given |
| 1963 | Henry James: Vol. II, The Conquest of London, and Vol. III, The Middle Years by Samuel Eliot Morison |
| 1964 | John Keats by Walter Jackson Bate |
| 1965 | Henry Adams by Ernest Samuels |
| 1966 | A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. |
| 1967 | Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain by Justin Kaplan |
| 1968 | Memoirs (1925-1950) 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 Lawrence R. 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 A. Caro |
| 1976 | Edith Wharton 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 S. McFeely |
| 1983 | Growing Up by Russell Baker |
| 1984 | Booker T. Washington 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 Ellmann |
| 1990 | Machiavelli in Hell by Sebastian de Grazia |
| 1991 | Jackson Pollock: An American Saga 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, 1868-1919 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 Katharine Graham |
| 1999 | Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg |
| 2000 | Vera (Mrs. Vladamir Nabakov) 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 |
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