Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

2007 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerThe Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward BeecherDebby ApplegateNo 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...Amazon2007 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistHemingwayKenneth S. LynnAmazonJohn Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil LibertyArthur H. CashAmazonThe Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy AdamsLeonard L. RichardsAmazonThe Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in VietnamMax BootAmazonThe Worlds of Lincoln KirsteinMartin DubermanAmazon

2008 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerEden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her FatherJohn MattesonWinner 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...Amazon2008 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistAndrew CarnegieDavid NasawAmazonLouis Armstrong: Master of ModernismThomas BrothersAmazonThe Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American CenturySteve CollAmazonTraitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano RooseveltH.W. BrandsAmazon

2009 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerAmerican Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White HouseJon MeachamChronicles the life and career of Andrew Jackson, a self-made man who went on to become a military hero and seventh president of the United States, analyzing Jackson's seminal role during a turbulent era in history....Amazon2009 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistCheever: A LifeBlake BaileyAmazonMurrow: His Life and TimesA.M. SperberAmazon

2011 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerWashington: A LifeRon ChernowA gripping portrait of the first president of the United States from the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical. Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of...Amazon2011 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistIsaac NewtonJames GleickAmazonLove and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a RevolutionMary GabrielAmazonMalcolm X: A Life of ReinventionManning MarableAmazon

2012 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerGeorge F. Kennan: An American LifeJohn Lewis GaddisA portrait of the Cold War strategist offers insight into his complex, troubled character while tracing his role in defining U.S. policy, covering his critical views on American diplomacy and his struggles with depression....Amazon2012 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistPortrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American MasterpieceMichael GorraAmazonThe Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. KennedyDavid NasawAmazon

2013 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerThe Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte CristoTom ReissThe 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....Amazon2013 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistFreud: A Life for Our TimePeter GayAmazonThe Duke of DeceptionGeoffrey WolffAmazon

2014 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerMargaret Fuller: A New American LifeMegan MarshallWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography From an early age, Margaret Fuller provoked and dazzled New England’s intellectual elite. Her famous Conversations changed women’s sense of how they could think and live; her editorship of the Transcendentalist li...Amazon2014 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistArshile Gorky: His Life and WorkHayden HerreraAmazonProust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle ParisCaroline WeberAmazonStalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928Stephen KotkinAmazon

2015 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerThe Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in EuropeDavid I. KertzerThe compelling story of Pope Pius XI's secret relations with Benito Mussolini. A ground-breaking work, based on seven years of research in the Vatican and Fascist archives by US National Book Award-finalist David Kertzer, it will forever change our underst...Amazon2015 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistAt Home with the Marquis de Sade: A LifeFrancine du Plessix GrayAmazonThe Light of the World: A MemoirElizabeth AlexanderAmazonThe Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American RomanticismMegan MarshallAmazon

2016 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerBarbarian Days: A Surfing LifeWilliam FinneganSurfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life. Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. He has chase...Amazon2016 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistKarl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century LifeJonathan SperberAmazon