Pulitzer Prize for Biography
All the books on the list "Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography" from Pulitzer Prize. The Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author. Rough head-count of people who shape the result each year 5 subject-matter jurors who screen the entries and forward three titles. 19 Board members who cast the decisive votes. So, a maximum of 24 people take part in the decision path for the Biography / Autobiography prize each cycle. Names are not secret, just easy to overlook. Jury names stay under wraps until winners are announced, then they’re displayed on each category’s web page (and occasionally turn up in press coverage or book-specific Wikipedia entries, as in the 2011 example above). Board membership is public all year and archived from one cycle to the next.
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The Education of Henry Adams
Henry Adams · 1777 · 6 lists
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Henry James
Leon Edel · 1931 · 3 lists
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Edith Wharton
R.W.B. Lewis · 1988 · 2 lists
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Samuel Johnson
Walter Jackson Bate · 1791 · 3 lists
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris · 1979 · 2 lists
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The Power Broker
Robert Caro · 1974 · 5 lists
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American Lion
Jon Matteson · 2008 · 1 list
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Eden's Outcasts
Jon Matteson · 2007 · 1 list
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The Most Famous Man in America
Debby Applegate · 2006 · 1 list
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American Prometheus
Kai Bird · 2005 · 1 list
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de Kooning
Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan · 2006 · 1 list
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Khrushchev
William Taubman · 2003 · 2 lists
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Master of the Senate
Robert Caro · 2009 · 2 lists
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John Adams
David McCullough · 2001 · 3 lists
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W.E.B. Du Bois
David Levering Lewis · 1994 · 1 list
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Vera
Stacy Schiff · 1999 · 1 list
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Julia Ward Howe
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe Elliott · 1915 · 1 list
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Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed
William Cabell Bruce · 1917 · 1 list
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The Life of John Marshall
Albert J. Beveridge · 1916 · 1 list
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The Americanization of Edward Bok
Edward Bok · 1920 · 1 list
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A Daughter of the Middle Border
Hamlin Garland · 1921 · 1 list
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The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page
Burton J. Hendrick · 1922 · 1 list
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From Immigrant to Inventor
Michael I. Pupin · 1923 · 1 list
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The Life of Sir William Osler
Harvey Cushing · 1925 · 1 list
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Whitman
Emory Holloway · 1926 · 1 list
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The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas
Charles Edward Russell · 1927 · 1 list
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The Training of an American
Burton J. Hendrick · 1928 · 1 list
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The Raven
Marquis James · 2012 · 1 list
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Charles W. Eliot
Henry James · 1930 · 1 list
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Theodore Roosevelt
Louis Auchincloss · 2001 · 1 list
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Grover Cleveland
Henry F. Graff · 2002 · 1 list
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John Hay
Tyler Dennett · 1933 · 1 list
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R. E. Lee
Douglas Southall Freeman · 1934 · 2 lists
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The Thought and Character of William James
Ralph Barton Perry · 1936 · 1 list
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Hamilton Fish
Allan Nevins · 1936 · 1 list
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Pedlar's Progress
Odell Shepard · 1937 · 1 list
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The Life of Andrew Jackson
Marquis James · 1938 · 1 list
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Benjamin Franklin
Carl van Doren · 1938 · 1 list
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Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters
Ray Stannard Baker · 1927 · 1 list
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Johnathan Edwards
Ola Elizabeth Winslow · 1966 · 1 list
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Crusader in Crinoline
Forrest Wilson · 1941 · 1 list
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Admiral of the Ocean Sea
Samuel Eliot Morison · 1942 · 1 list
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The American Leonardo
Carleton Mabee · 1943 · 1 list
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George Bancroft
Russel Blaine Nye · 1944 · 1 list
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Son of the Wilderness
Linnie Marsh Wolfe · 1945 · 1 list
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The Autobiography of William Allen White
William Allen White · 1946 · 1 list
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Forgotten First Citizen
Margaret Clapp · 1947 · 1 list
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Roosevelt and Hopkins
Robert E. Sherwood · 1948 · 1 list
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John C. Calhoun
Margaret Louise Coit · 1950 · 1 list
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Charles Evans Hughes
Merlo J. Pusey · 1951 · 1 list
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Edmund Pendleton 1721–1803
David J. Mays · 1984 · 1 list
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The Spirit of St. Louis
Charles Lindbergh · 1953 · 2 lists
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The Taft Story
William S. White · 1954 · 1 list
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Profiles in Courage
John F. Kennedy · 1955 · 2 lists
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George Washington
James MacGregor Burns · 2004 · 1 list
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Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet
Arthur Walworth · 1958 · 1 list
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John Paul Jones
Samuel Eliot Morison · 1959 · 1 list
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John Keats
Walter Jackson Bate · 1963 · 1 list
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Henry Adams
Ernest Samuels · 1948 · 1 list
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A Thousand Days
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. · 1965 · 1 list
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Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain
Justin Kaplan · 1966 · 1 list
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Memoirs
George F. Kennan · 1967 · 1 list
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Huey Long
T. Harry Williams · 1969 · 1 list
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Robert Frost
Lawrence Thompson · 1966 · 1 list
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Eleanor and Franklin
Joseph P. Lash · 1971 · 1 list
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Luce and His Empire
W.A. Swanberg · 1972 · 1 list
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O'Neill, Son and Artist
Louis Sheaffer · 1973 · 1 list
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A Prince of Our Disorder
John E. Mack · 1976 · 1 list
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Days of Sorrow and Pain
Leonard Baker · 1978 · 1 list
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Peter the Great
Robert K. Massie · 1980 · 1 list
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Grant
Jean Edward Smith · 2001 · 1 list
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Growing Up
Russell Baker · 1982 · 1 list
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Booker T. Washington
Louis R. Harlan · 1983 · 1 list
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The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
Kenneth Silverman · 1970 · 1 list
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Louise Bogan
Elizabeth Frank · 1985 · 1 list
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Bearing the Cross
David J. Garrow · 1986 · 1 list
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Oscar Wilde
Richard Ellmann · 1987 · 1 list
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Machiavelli in Hell
Sebastian De Grazia · 1989 · 1 list
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Jackson Pollock
Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith · 1989 · 1 list
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Fortunate Son
Walter Mosley · 2006 · 1 list
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Truman
David McCullough · 1992 · 2 lists
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Joan D. Hedrick · 1994 · 1 list
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God
Jack Miles · 1995 · 1 list
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Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt · 1996 · 3 lists
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Personal History
Katharine Graham · 1997 · 1 list
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Lindbergh
A. Scott Berg · 1998 · 2 lists
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Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas Wolfe · 1929 · 8 lists
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The First Tycoon
T. J. Stiles · 2009 · 2 lists
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Washington
Ron Chernow · 1800 · 2 lists
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George F. Kennan
John Lewis Gaddis · 2011 · 1 list
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The Black Count
Tom Reiss · 2012 · 1 list
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Margaret Fuller
Megan Marshall · 2013 · 1 list
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The Pope and Mussolini
David I. Kertzer · 2014 · 1 list
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Barbarian Days
William Finnegan · 2015 · 2 lists
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The Return
Hisham Matar · 1950 · 6 lists
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Prairie Fires
Caroline Fraser · 2017 · 2 lists
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The New Negro
Jeffrey C. Stewart · 2018 · 2 lists
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Sontag
Benjamin Moser · 2019 · 1 list
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The Dead Are Arising
Les Payne · 2020 · 2 lists
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Chasing Me To My Grave
Winfred Rembert, Erin I. Kelly · 2021 · 1 list
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G Man
Beverly Gage · 2022 · 1 list
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King
Jonathan Eig · 2023 · 1 list
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Master Slave Husband Wife
Ilyon Woo · 2023 · 2 lists
