Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Pulitzer Prize for Biography Public
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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
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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
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer is a biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird …
Phil in SF says: 2006 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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The Most Famous Man in America by Debby Applegate
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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
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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
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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
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Phil in SF says: 2011 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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George F. Kennan by John Lewis Gaddis
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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
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rom 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
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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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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
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"This book, written by the editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House books, is a thoroughly …
Phil in SF says: 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
