2008 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father

John Matteson

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa’s youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson—an eminent teacher and a friend of Emerson and Thoreau. He desired perfection, for the world and from hi…

Andrew Carnegie

David Nasaw

Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism

Thomas Brothers

The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century

Steve Coll

Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

H.W. Brands