1990 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner

Machiavelli in Hell
Sebastian de Grazia
In this intellectual biography, de Grazia presents a new vision of Niccolo Machiavelli that evokes the great Florentine thinker’s presence. After giving an engrossing account of Machiavelli’s childhood and period of personal crisis that followed his impris…
1990 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Shortlist

Being Bernard Berenson
Meryle Secrest

Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 1, 1819–1851
Hershel Parker
