Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

1987 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerBearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership ConferenceDavid J. GarrowBearing the Cross provides a penetrating account of King’s spiritual development and his crucial role at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, whose protest campaigns in Birmingham and Selma, Alabama, led to enactment of the ......Amazon

1988 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerLook Homeward: A Life of Thomas WolfeDavid Herbert DonaldBased on the papers of the Wolfe Estate, this biography reveals for the first time the personal life of the major American literary figure and examines his relations with his editors, literary agents, and contemporary writers....Amazon1988 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistWhen Breath Becomes AirPaul KalanithiAmazon

1989 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerOscar WildeRichard Ellmann...Amazon1989 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistA Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in VietnamNeil SheehanAmazon

1990 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerMachiavelli in HellSebastian de GraziaIn this intellectual biography, de Grazia presents a new vision of Niccolo Machiavelli that evokes the great Florentine thinker's presence. After giving an engrossing account of Machiavelli's childhood and period of personal crisis that followed his impris...Amazon1990 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistBeing Bernard BerensonMeryle SecrestAmazonHerman Melville: A Biography, Volume 1, 1819–1851Hershel ParkerAmazonIn the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown CountryKim BarnesAmazon

1991 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerJackson Pollock: An American SagaSteven Naifeh and Gregory White SmithBased on interviews with more than 850 people, this biography profiles the troubled life of the enigmatic avant-garde artist whose controversial work changed the definition of modern art...Amazon

1992 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerFortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller Jr.Lewis B. PullerA Vietnam veteran who lost both legs and a hand in the Vietnam War recounts his homecoming and his attempts to come to terms with his life....Amazon1992 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistGenius: The Life and Science of Richard FeynmanJames GleickAmazonKissingerWalter IsaacsonAmazon

1993 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerTrumanDavid McCulloughThe Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian. The life of Harr...Amazon1993 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistA First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin RooseveltGeoffrey C. WardAmazonBeethoven: The Music and the LifeLewis LockwoodAmazon

1994 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerW. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919David Levering LewisThis monumental biography by David Levering Lewis--eight years in the research and writing--treats the early and middle phases of a long and intense career: a crucial fifty-year period that demonstrates how W.E.B. Du Bois changed forever the way Americans ...Amazon

1995 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerHarriet Beecher Stowe: A LifeJoan D. Hedrick"Up to this year I have always felt that I had no particular call to meddle with this subject....But I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak." Thus did Harriet Beecher St...Amazon1995 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistIn Extremis: The Life of Laura RidingDeborah BakerAmazonIn the DarkroomSusan FaludiAmazonWalter Lippmann and the American CenturyRonald SteelAmazonWoodrow Wilson: A BiographyJohn Milton Cooper, Jr.Amazon

1996 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerGod: A BiographyJack MilesThis is the task that Jack Miles—a former Jesuit trained in religious studies and Near Eastern languages—accomplishes with such brilliance and originality in God: A Biography....Amazon1996 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistMozart: A LifeMaynard SolomonAmazonOrwell: The Authorized BiographyMichael SheldenAmazon