2006 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific pr…
2006 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Shortlist
A Beautiful Mind
Sylvia Nasar
George Santayana: A Biography
John Owen McCormick
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
Leo Damrosch
