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Pulitzer Prize-winning Biography

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This list contains Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, autobiography, and memoir by American authors from 1918 to 2021. The Pulitzer Prizes and Fellowships were established in Columbia University by Joseph Pulitzer. Prizes are awarded by the University on the recommendation of The Pulitzer Prize Board and are announced in Spring. Nominees are organized into 22 categories across journalism, books, drama and music.

Details	Rating	Readers Count
Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus Samuel Eliot Morison	0	0 reads
American Lion Jon Meacham	3.75	24 reads
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer Kai Bird Martin J. Sherwin	4.18	99 reads
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir Frank McCourt	3.84	246 reads
A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T.E. Lawrence John E. Mack	3	1 read
A Son of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland	0	0 reads
A thousand days : John F. Kennedy in the White House Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.	3.5	2 reads
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life William Finnegan	4.25	66 reads
Barrett Wendell and His Letters Barrett Wendell and His Letters Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe	0	0 reads
Bearing the Cross David J. Garrow	0	0 reads
Benjamin Franklin Carl Van Doren Carl C. Van Doren	0	1 read
Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed William Cabell Bruce	0	0 reads
Benjamin Henry Latrobe Benjamin Henry Latrobe Talbot Faulkner Hamlin	0	0 reads
Bill Martin's Instant Readers Bill Martin	0	0 reads
Booker T. Washington Louis R. Harlan	0	0 reads
Charles Evans Hughes Charles Evans Hughes Merlo J. Pusey	0	0 reads
Charles Sumner and The Coming of the Civil War David Herbert Donald	0	0 reads
Charles W. Eliot Charles W. Eliot Henry James	0	0 reads
Crusader in Crinoline Robert Forrest Wilson	0	0 reads
Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews Leonard Baker	0	0 reads
De Kooning: An American Master Mark Stevens Annalyn Swan	0	0 reads
Eden's Outcasts John Matteson	0	0 reads
Edith Wharton: A Biography R.W.B. Lewis	0	0 reads
Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803, Volume I David John Mays	0	0 reads
Eleanor and Franklin Joseph P. Lash	0	0 reads
Forgotten First Citizen Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow Margaret Clapp	0	0 reads
Fortunate Son Lewis B. Puller Jr.	0	0 reads
George Bancroft, Brahmin Rebel Russel B. Nye	0	0 reads
George F. Kennan John Lewis Gaddis	0	0 reads
God Jack Miles	4.33	5 reads
Grant William S. McFeely	0	0 reads
Grover Cleveland Grover Cleveland Allan Nevins	0	0 reads
Growing Up Russell Baker Gilbert Riswold	3.2	6 reads
Hamilton Fish Hamilton Fish Allan Nevins	0	0 reads
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life Joan D. Hedrick	0	0 reads
Henry Adams: The Middle Years Ernest Samuels	0	0 reads
Henry James Leon Edel	0	0 reads
Henry James: The Treacherous Years: 1895-1901 Leon Edel	0	0 reads
Huey Long T. Harry Williams	4.5	3 reads
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga Gregory White Smith Steven Naifeh	0	0 reads
John Adams David McCullough	4.37	100 reads
John C. Calhoun: American Portrait Margaret L. Coit	2	1 read
John Hay Tyler Dennett	0	0 reads
John Keats Walter Jackson Bate	0	0 reads
John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy Samuel Flagg Bemis	0	0 reads
Jonathan Edwards: 1703-1758 Ola Elizabeth Winslow	0	0 reads
Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 Laura Elizabeth Richards Maud Howe Elliott	0	0 reads
Khrushchev William Taubman	4	1 read
Lindbergh A. Scott Berg	4.33	7 reads
Look Homeward David Herbert Donald	0	0 reads
Louise Bogan: A Portrait Elizabeth Frank	0	0 reads
Luce and His Empire W.A. Swanberg	0	0 reads
Machiavelli in Hell Sebastian De Grazia	0	0 reads
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life Megan Marshall	2	1 read
Master of the Senate Robert A. Caro	4.85	29 reads
Memoirs, 1925-1950 George F. Kennan	0	0 reads
Michael Pupin, From Immigrant to Inventor Michael Pupin, From Immigrant to Inventor Michael Pupin	0	0 reads
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography Justin Kaplan	0	0 reads
O'Neill Louis Sheaffer	0	0 reads
Oscar Wilde Richard Ellmann	5	2 reads
Pedlar's Progress Odell Shepard	0	0 reads
Personal History Katharine Graham	4.33	10 reads
Peter the Great Robert K. Massie	3.78	11 reads
Prairie fires Caroline Fraser	0	0 reads
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder Caroline Fraser	4.17	31 reads
Profiles in Courage John F. Kennedy	5	1 read
R.E. Lee, a biography. Freeman, Douglas Southall	0	0 reads
Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History Robert E. Sherwood	0	0 reads
Samuel Johnson Walter Jackson Bate	0	0 reads
Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir Linnie Marsh Wolfe Steven Pavlos Holmes	0	0 reads
Sontag Benjamin Moser	4	3 reads
The Americanization of Edward Bok Edward William Bok	0	0 reads
The American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel F.B. Morse Mabee Carleton	0	0 reads
The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas Charles Edward Russell	0	0 reads
The Autobiography of William Allen White William Allen White	0	0 reads
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo Tom Reiss Gabriel Stoian (Translator)	3.73	39 reads
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X Les Payne Tamara Payne	4.64	11 reads
The Education of Henry Adams Henry Adams Library of American Art Staff	2	1 read
The First Tycoon T.J. Stiles	3.8	6 reads
The life and letters of Walter H. Page Burton J. Hendrick	0	0 reads
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather Kenneth Silverman	0	0 reads
The life of Andrew Jackson The life of Andrew Jackson Marquis James	0	0 reads
The Life Of John Marshall Albert J. Beveridge	0	0 reads
The Life of Sir William Osler, Volume 1 The Life of Sir William Osler, Volume 1 Harvey Williams Cushing	0	0 reads
The Man from New York The Man from New York: John Quinn and His Friends Benjamin Lawrence Reid	0	0 reads
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher Debby Applegate	3	1 read
The new Negro Jeffrey C. Stewart	0	0 reads
Theodore Roosevelt Henry F. Pringle	0	0 reads
The Pope and Mussolini David I. Kertzer	5	1 read
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Robert A. Caro	4.69	87 reads
The Raven Marquis James	4	2 reads
The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between Hisham Matar	3.31	15 reads
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Edmund Morris	4.33	45 reads
The Spirit of St. Louis Charles A. Lindbergh	4.67	3 reads
The Taft Story The Taft Story William S. White	0	0 reads
The Thought and Character of William James As Revealed in Unpublished Correspondence and Notes Together With His Published Writings The Thought and Character of William James As Revealed in Unpublished Correspondence and Notes Together With His Published Writings Ralph Barton Perry	0	0 reads
The Training of an American The Training of an American Burton J. Hendrick Walter Hines Page	0	0 reads
Truman David McCullough	4.36	36 reads
Vera Stacy Schiff Vera Nabokov	2	1 read
Washington: A Life Ron Chernow	4.41	61 reads