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Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Jeffrey C. Stewart
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Caroline Fraser
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
Hisham Matar
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe
David I. Kertzer
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
Megan Marshall
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
Tom Reiss
George F. Kennan: An American Life
John Lewis Gaddis
Washington: A Life
Ron Chernow
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
T.J. Stiles
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Jon Meacham
Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
John Matteson
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
Debby Applegate
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
de Kooning: An American Master
Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
William Taubman
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert A. Caro
John Adams
David McCullough
W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963
David Levering Lewis
Vera, Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov
Stacy Schiff
Personal History
Katharine Graham
Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
Frank McCourt
God: A Biography
Jack Miles
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life
Joan D. Hedrick
W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919
David Levering Lewis
Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller Jr.
Lewis B. Puller
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
Machiavelli in Hell
Sebastian de Grazia
Oscar Wilde
Richard Ellmann
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
David Herbert Donald
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
David J. Garrow
Louise Bogan: A Portrait
Elizabeth Frank
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
Kenneth Silverman
Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915
Louis R. Harlan
Grant: A Biography
William S. McFeely
Peter the Great: His Life and World
Robert K. Massie
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris
Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews
Leonard Baker
Samuel Johnson
Walter Jackson Bate
A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence
John E. Mack
Edith Wharton: A Biography
R. W. B. Lewis
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert Caro
O’Neill, Son and Artist
Louis Sheaffer
Luce and His Empire
W. A. Swanberg
Eleanor and Franklin
Joseph P. Lash
Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915–1938,
Lawrance Thompson
Huey Long
Thomas Harry Williams
The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends
Benjamin Lawrence Reid
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain
Justin Kaplan
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Henry Adams, 3 vols.,
Ernest Samuels
John Keats
Walter Jackson Bate
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
David Donald
John Paul Jones
Samuel Eliot Morison
Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet
Arthur Walworth
George Washington, Volumes I-VII
Douglas Southall Freeman with John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth
Profiles in Courage
John F. Kennedy
Benjamin Henry Latrobe
Talbot Faulkner Hamlin
The Taft Story
William S. White
The Spirit of St. Louis
Charles A. Lindbergh
Edmund Pendleton 1721–1803
David J. Mays
Charles Evans Hughes
Merlo J. Pusey
John C. Calhoun: American Portrait
Margaret Louise Coit
John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy
Samuel Flagg Bemis
Roosevelt and Hopkins
Robert E. Sherwood
Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow
Margaret Clapp
The Autobiography of William Allen White
William Allen White
Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir
Linnie Marsh Wolfe
George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel
Russel Blaine Nye
The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse
Carleton Mabee
Admiral of the Ocean Sea
Samuel Eliot Morison
Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
Forrest Wilson
Jonathan Edwards, 1703–1758: a biography
Ola Elizabeth Winslow
Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII
Ray Stannard Baker
Benjamin Franklin
Carl Van Doren
Andrew Jackson, 2 vols.
Marquis James
Hamilton Fish
Allan Nevins
The Thought and Character of William James
Ralph Barton Perry
R. E. Lee
Douglas S. Freeman
Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage
Allan Nevins
Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography
Henry F. Pringle
Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University, 1869–1901
Henry James
The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston
Marquis James
The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page
Burton J. Hendrick
The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas
Charles Edward Russell
The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols.
Harvey Cushing
Barrett Wendell and His Letters
M. A. Dewolfe Howe
From Immigrant to Inventor
Michael I. Pupin
The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page
Burton J. Hendrick
A Daughter of the Middle Border
Hamlin Garland
The Americanization of Edward Bok
Edward Bok
The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols.
Albert J. Beveridge
The Education of Henry Adams
Henry Adams
Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed
William Cabell Bruce
Julia Ward Howe
Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall
