Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Pulitzer Prize for Biography Public
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Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann
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'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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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God: A Biography by Jack Miles
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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
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"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
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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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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
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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
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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
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John Adams (styled John Adams. on the cover art, depicting Adams' frequently punctuated signature) is a 2001 biography of the …
Phil in SF says: 2002 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
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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
