O Prémio Pulitzer de Biografia ou Autobiografia é um dos sete Prémios Pulitzer que são atribuídos anualmente nas áreas das Letras, Teatro e Música. Tem sido entregue desde 1917 a uma biografia ou autobiografia notável executada por um escritor ou co-autores Norte-americanos, publicada durante o ano precedente. Este é um dos Pulitzers originais, tendo o programa começado em 1917 com sete prémios, quatro dos quais entregues nesse ano."1917 Winners" .
Os finalistas têm sido anunciados desde 1980, geralmente dois para além do vencedor.
Vencedores Nos seus primeiros 97 anos até 2013, o Pulitzer de Biografia foi atribuído 97 vezes. Dois foram entregues em 1938, nenhum em 1962.
1910s 1917: Julia Ward Howe de Laura E. Richards e Maud Howe Elliott, assistido por Florence Howe Hall 1918: Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed de William Cabell Bruce 1919: The Education of Henry Adams de Henry Adams
1920s 1920: The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols. de Albert J. Beveridge 1921: The Americanization of Edward Bok de Edward Bok 1922: A Daughter of the Middle Border de Hamlin Garland 1923: The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page de Burton J. Hendrick 1924: From Immigrant to Inventor de Michael I. Pupin 1925: Barrett Wendell and His Letters de M. A. Dewolfe Howe 1926: The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols. de Harvey Cushing 1927: Whitman de Emory Holloway 1928: The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas de Charles Edward Russell 1929: The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page de Burton J. Hendrick
1930s 1930: The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston by Marquis James 1931: Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University, 1869-1901 by Henry James 1932: Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography by Henry F. Pringle 1933: Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage de Allan Nevins 1934: John Hay de Tyler Dennett 1935: R. E. Lee de Douglas S. Freeman 1936: The Thought and Character of William James de Ralph Barton Perry 1937: Hamilton Fish de Allan Nevins 1938: Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott de Odell Shepard 1938: Andrew Jackson, 2 vols. de Marquis James 1939: Benjamin Franklin de Carl Van Doren
1940s 1940: Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII de Ray Stannard Baker 1941: Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758: a biography de Ola Elizabeth Winslow 1942: Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe de Forrest Wilson 1943: Admiral of the Ocean Sea de Samuel Eliot Morison 1944: The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse de Carleton Mabee 1945: George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel de Russel Blaine Nye 1946: Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir de Linnie Marsh Wolfe 1947: The Autobiography of William Allen White de William Allen White 1948: Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow de Margaret Clapp 1949: Roosevelt and Hopkins de Robert E. Sherwood
1950s 1950: John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy de Samuel Flagg Bemis 1951: John C. Calhoun: American Portrait de Margaret Louise Coit 1952: Charles Evans Hughes de Merlo J. Pusey 1953: Edmund Pendleton 1721–1803 de David J. Mays 1954: The Spirit of St. Louis de Charles A. Lindbergh 1955: The Taft Story de William S. White 1956: Benjamin Henry Latrobe de Talbot Faulkner Hamlin 1957: Profiles in Courage de John F. Kennedy 1958: George Washington, Volumes I-VI de Douglas Southall Freeman, e Volume VII, escrito por John Alexander Carroll e Mary Wells Ashworth após a morte do Dr. Freeman em 1953 1959: Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet de Arthur Walworth
1960s 1960: John Paul Jones de Samuel Eliot Morison 1961: Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War de David Donald 1962: não foi entregue o prémio In 1962 the Pulitzer board awarded the prize to W.A. Swanberg for Citizen Hearst. 1963: Henry James de Leon Edel 1964: John Keats de Walter Jackson Bate 1965: Henry Adams, 3 vols., de Ernest Samuels 1966: A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House de Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. 1967: Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain de Justin Kaplan 1968: Memoirs de George Frost Kennan 1969: The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends de Benjamin Lawrence Reid
1970s 1970: Huey Long de Thomas Harry Williams 1971: Robert Frost : The Years of Triumph, 1915–1938, de Lawrence Thompson 1972: Eleanor and Franklin de Joseph P. Lash 1973: Luce and His Empire de W. A. Swanberg 1974: O'Neill, Son and Artist de Louis Sheaffer 1975: The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York de Robert Caro 1976: Edith Wharton: A Biography de R. W. B. Lewis 1977: A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence de John E. Mack 1978: Samuel Johnson de Walter Jackson Bate 1979: Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews de Leonard Baker
1980s Os registos a partir daqui incluem os finalistas listados após o vencedor de cada ano. 1980: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt de Edmund Morris Being Bernard Berenson de Meryle Secrest Bernard Berenson, The Making of a Connoisseur de Ernest Samuels The Duke of Deception de Geoffrey Wolff 1981: Peter the Great: His Life and World de Robert K. Massie Walt Whitman: A Life de Justin Kaplan Walter Lippmann and the American Century de Ronald Steel 1982: Grant: A Biography de William S. McFeely Mornings on Horseback de David McCullough Waldo Emerson de Gay Wilson Allen 1983: Growing Up de Russell Baker Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry, 1874–1915 de Ted Morgan Thomas E. Dewey and His Times de Richard Norton Smith 1984: Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915 de Louis R. Harlan Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just by Kenneth Manning Thomas Carlyle: A Biography de Fred Kaplan 1985: The Life and Times of Cotton Mather de Kenneth Silverman Becoming William James de Howard M. Feinstein The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton de Michael Mott 1986: Louise Bogan: A Portrait de Elizabeth Frank A Hidden Childhood: A Jewish Girl's Sanctuary in a French Convent, 1942–1945 de Frida Scheps Weinstein George Washington Williams: A Biography de John Hope Franklin 1987: Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference de David J. Garrow Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860–1865 de Joseph Frank Murrow: His Life and Times by A.M. Sperber The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams de Leonard L. Richards 1988: Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe de David Herbert Donald George Santayana: A Biography de John Owen McCormick Hemingway de Kenneth S. Lynn 1989: Oscar Wilde de Richard Ellmann A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam de Neil Sheehan Freud: A Life for Our Time de Peter Gay The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II, 1941–1967: I Dream a World de Arnold Rampersad
1990s 1990: Machiavelli in Hell de Sebastian de Grazia A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt de Geoffrey C. Ward Clear Pictures: First Loves, First Guides de Reynolds Price The Road From Coorain de Jill Ker Conway 1991: Jackson Pollock: An American Saga de Steven Naifeh e Gregory White Smith Alfred I. Du Pont: The Man and His Family de Joseph Frazier Wall The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends 1880–1918 de Patricia O'Toole 1992: Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller Jr. de Lewis B. Puller Frederick Douglass by William S. McFeely Orwell: The Authorized Biography de Michael Shelden 1993: Truman de David McCullough Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman de James Gleick Kissinger de Walter Isaacson 1994: W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919 de David Levering Lewis Genet: A Biography de Edmund White In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding de Deborah Baker 1995: Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life de Joan D. Hedrick Hugo Black: A Biography de Roger K. Newman Saint-Exupery: A Biography de Stacy Schiff 1996: God: A Biography de Jack Miles John Sloan: Painter and Rebel de John Loughery Mozart: A Life de Maynard Solomon 1997: Angela's Ashes: A Memoir de Frank McCourt Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 1, 1819–1851 de Hershel Parker In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country de Kim Barnes 1998: Personal History de Katharine Graham Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public-Private Life de James H. Jones Whittaker Chambers: A Biography de Sam Tanenhaus 1999: Lindbergh de A. Scott Berg A Beautiful Mind de Sylvia Nasar Gray At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life de Francine du Plessix
2000s 2000: Vera, Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov de Stacy Schiff Clear Springs: A Memoir de Bobbie Ann Mason Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love de Dava Sobel 2001: W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963 de David Levering Lewis Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician de Christoph Wolff The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin de H.W. Brands 2002: John Adams de David McCullough An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood de Jimmy Carter Grant de Jean Edward Smith 2003: Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson de Robert Caro Beethoven: The Music and the Life de Lewis Lockwood The Fly Swatter by Nicholas Dawidoff 2004: Khrushchev: The Man and His Era de William Taubman Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work de Hayden Herrera Isaac Newton de James Gleick 2005: de Kooning: An American Master de Mark Stevens e Annalyn Swan Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America by William Souder Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare de Stephen Greenblatt 2006: American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer de Kai Bird e Martin J. Sherwin The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism de Megan Marshall The Year of Magical Thinking de Joan Didion 2007: The Most Famous Man in America de Debby Applegate Andrew Carnegie de David Nasaw John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty de Arthur H. Cash 2008: Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father de John Matteson The Life of Kingsley Amis de Zachary Leader The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein de Martin Duberman 2009: American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House de Jon Meacham The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century de Steve Coll Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt de H.W. Brands
2010s 2010: The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt de T.J. Stiles Cheever: A Life de Blake Bailey Woodrow Wilson: A Biography de John Milton Cooper, Jr. 2011: Washington: A Life de Ron Chernow Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon de Michael O'Brien The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century de Alan Brinkley 2012: George F. Kennan: An American Life de John Lewis Gaddis Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention de Manning Marable Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution de Mary Gabriel 2013: The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo de Tom Reiss Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece de Michael Gorra The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy de David Nasaw 2014: Margaret Fuller: A New American Life de Megan Marshall Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World de Leo Damrosch Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life de Jonathan Sperber 2015: The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe de David I. Kertzer Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism de Thomas Brothers Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 de Stephen Kotkin 2016:' Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life de William Finnegan Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America de T. J. Stiles The Light of the World: A Memior de Elizabeth Alexander
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