Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

awarded since 1980.

 

Selezione2013

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography 2013

di Tom Reiss

Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo – a stunning feat of historical sleuthing that brings to life the forgotten hero who inspired such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo...


Selezione2012

George F. Kennan: An American Life

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography 2012, National Book Critics Circle for Biography 2011

di John Lewis Gaddis

Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Biography

Widely and enthusiastically acclaimed, this is the authorized, definitive biography of one of the most fascinating but troubled figures of the twentieth century...


Selezione2011

Washington: A Life

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography 2011

di Ron Chernow

Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography

Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation and the first president of the United States. With a breadth and...


Selezione2010

The First Tycoon

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography 2010, National Book Award for Non-Fiction 2009

di T.J. Stiles

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

In this groundbreaking biography, T.J. Stiles tells the dramatic story of Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt, the combative man and American icon who, through...


Selezione2009

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography 2009

di Jon Meacham

Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated...


Selezione2007

The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography 2007

di Debby Applegate

No 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...


Selezione2006

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography 2006, National Book Critics Circle for Biography 2005

di Martin J. Sherwin & Kai Bird

J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting...


Selezione2002

John Adams

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography 2002

di David McCullough

In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot -- "the colossus of independence,"...


Selezione2000

Vera: (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography 2000

di Stacy Schiff

Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both "monumental" (The Boston Globe) and "utterly romantic" (New York magazine), Stacy Schiff's Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) brings to...


Selezione1998

Personal History

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography 1998

di Katharine Graham

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography

An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women, Personal History is, as its title suggests, a book composed...


Selezione1997

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography 1997, National Book Critics Circle for Biography/Autobiography 1996, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography 1996

di Frank McCourt

"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood...


Selezione1996

God: A Biography

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography 1996

di Jack Miles

What sort of "person" is God? Is it possible to approach him not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book--as a character who possesses all the depths, contradictions,...


Selezione1993

Truman

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography 1993, Lionel Gelber Prize 1992

di David McCullough

The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters -- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and...


Selezione1980

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography 1980

di Edmund Morris

Thirty years ago, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

Although Theodore Rex fully recounts TR’s years in the White House (1901–1909), The Rise of Theodore...


Selezione1967

Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography 1967

di Justin Kaplan

Mark Twain, the American comic genius who portrayed, named, and in part exemplified America's "Gilded Age," comes alive -- a presence felt, an artist understood -- in Justin Kaplan's extraordinary biography....


Selezione1966

A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography 1966

di Jr.", Arthur M. "Schlesinger

As special assistant to the president, Arthur Schlesinger witnessed firsthand the politics and personalities that influenced the now legendary Kennedy administration. Schlesinger’s close relationship with...


Selezione1958

Washington

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography 1958

di Douglas Southall Freeman

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.


Selezione1921

The Americanization of Edward Bok

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography 1921

di Edward William Bok

The Americanization of Edward Bok is an autobiography, told in the third person, that shares the life of a little Dutch boy unceremoniously set down in America unable to make himself understood or even to know...


Selezione1919

The Education of Henry Adams

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography 1919

di Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in early old age, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It is also...