1994 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner
W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919
David Levering Lewis
This monumental biography by David Levering Lewis–eight years in the research and writing–treats the early and middle phases of a long and intense career: a crucial fifty-year period that demonstrates how W.E.B. Du Bois changed forever the way Americans …