Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

1977 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerA Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. LawrenceJohn E. MackPresents portrait of the soldier and leader most widely known as Lawrence of Arabia, set against the history, politics, and society of the times....Amazon

1978 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerSamuel JohnsonWalter Jackson BateA biographical study of the eighteenth-century lexicographer and critic combines narrative with psychological insights....Amazon

1979 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerDays of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin JewsLeonard Baker...Amazon

1980 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerThe Rise of Theodore RooseveltEdmund MorrisA hardcover re-release provides a Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning biography of Theodore Roosevelt that the Chicago Tribune called "a classic." By the author of Colonel Roosevelt....Amazon1980 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistClear Pictures: First Loves, First GuidesReynolds PriceAmazonClear Springs: A MemoirBobbie Ann MasonAmazonRobert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and CharacterKay Redfield JamisonAmazonWalt Whitman: A LifeJustin KaplanAmazon

1981 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerPeter the Great: His Life and WorldRobert K. MassieThis biography of the notorious Russian ruler examines his background and accomplishments, detailing the armed conflicts during his reign and scrutinizing his transformation of medieval Russia into modern Russia...Amazon1981 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistGalileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and LoveDava SobelAmazonHugo Black: A BiographyRoger K. NewmanAmazon

1982 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerGrant: A BiographyWilliam S. McFeelyA definitive, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Ulysses S. Grant traces the life of America's eighteenth president from his uneventful childhood, through his West Point education and extraordinary successes on the battlefield, to his failure in the world...Amazon1982 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistGrantJean Edward SmithAmazonWaldo EmersonGay Wilson AllenAmazon

1983 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerGrowing UpRussell BakerThe Pulitzer Prize–winning memoir about coming of age in America between the world wars: “So warm, so likable and so disarmingly funny” (The New York Times). Ranging from the backwoods of Virginia to a New Jersey commuter town to the city of Baltimore, thi...Amazon1983 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistBlack Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett JustKenneth ManningAmazonThomas Carlyle: A BiographyFred KaplanAmazonThomas E. Dewey and His TimesRichard Norton SmithAmazon

1984 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerBooker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915Louis R. HarlanA chronicle of Washington's last fifteen years reviews his accomplishments and explains how he gained strong political influence...Amazon1984 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistBecoming William JamesHoward M. FeinsteinAmazon

1985 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerThe Life and Times of Cotton MatherKenneth Silverman...Amazon

1986 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerLouise Bogan: A PortraitElizabeth FrankA full-scale biography of the distinguished lyric poet, translator, and critic details the highs and lows of her elegant and sorrowful life and the steady growth and influence of her work...Amazon1986 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistDostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860–1865Joseph FrankAmazon