2013 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
Tom Reiss
The Count of Monte Cristo! The stories of course are fiction. But here a prize-winning author shows us that the inspiration for the swashbuckling stories was, in fact, Dumas’s own father, Alex – the son of a marquis and a black slave….
2013 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Shortlist
Freud: A Life for Our Time
Peter Gay
