1990 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

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…

Being Bernard Berenson

Meryle Secrest

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

Hershel Parker

In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country

Kim Barnes