2007 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
Debby Applegate
No one predicted success for Henry Ward Beecher at his birth in 1813. The blithe, boisterous son of the last great Puritan minister, he seemed destined to be overshadowed by his brilliant siblings—especially his sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, who penned th…