Ebben a listában a Pulitzer-díj „életrajzok és önéletrajzok” kategóriájának jelöltjei és nyertesei találhatóak.
Év Életrajz vagy önéletrajz Szerző 2021 The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X Les Payne és Tamara Payne Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath Heather Clark Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World Amy Stanley 2020 Sontag: Her Life and Work Benjamin Moser Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century George Packer Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, And Me Deirdre Bair 2019 The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke Jeffrey C. Stewart Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle Paris Caroline Weber The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam Max Boot 2018 Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder Caroline Fraser Richard Nixon: The Life John A. Farrell Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character Kay Redfield Jamison 2017 The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between Hisham Matar Előhívás: mindent apámról (In the Darkroom) Susan Faludi Elillanó lélekzet (When Breath Becomes Air) Paul Kalanithi 2016 Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life William Finnegan Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America T. J. Stiles The Light of the World: A Memior Elizabeth Alexander 2015 The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe David I. Kertzer Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism Thomas Brothers Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928 Stephen Kotkin 2014 Margaret Fuller: A New American Life Megan Marshall Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World Leo Damrosch Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life Jonathan Sperber 2013 The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo Tom Reiss Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece Michael Gorra The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy David Nasaw 2012 George F. Kennan: An American Life John Lewis Gaddis Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution Mary Gabriel Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention Manning Marable 2011 Washington: A Life Ron Chernow The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century Alan Brinkley Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon Michael O’Brien 2010 The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt T. J. Stiles Woodrow Wilson: A Biography John Milton Cooper, Jr. Cheever: A Life Blake Bailey 2009 American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House Jon Meacham Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt H. W. Brands The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century Steve Coll 2008 Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father John Matteson The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein Martin Duberman The Life of Kingsley Amis Zachary Leader 2007 The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher Debby Applegate John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty Arthur H. Cash Andrew Carnegie David Nasaw 2006 Amerikai Prométheusz. J. Robert Oppenheimer dicsősége és tragédiája (American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer) Kai Bird és Martin J. Sherwin A mágikus gondolatok éve (The Year of Magical Thinking) Joan Didion The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism Megan Marshall 2005 de Kooning: An American Master Mark Stevens és Annalyn Swan Géniusz földi pályán: Shakespeare módszere (Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare) Stephen Greenblatt Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America William Souder 2004 Khrushchev: The Man and His Era William Taubman Isaac Newton James Gleick Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work Hayden Herrera 2003 Master of the Senate Robert A. Caro The Fly Swatter Nicholas Dawidoff Beethoven: The Music and the Life Lewis Lockwood 2002 John Adams David McCullough An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood Jimmy Carter Grant Jean Edward Smith 2001 W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 David Levering Lewis The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin H. W. Brands Johann Sebastian Bach: A tudós zeneszerző (Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician) Christoph Wolff 2000 Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) Stacy Schiff Clear Springs: A Memoir Bobbie Ann Mason Galilei lánya: Hiteles memoár a tudományról, a bizalomról és a szeretetről (Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love) Dava Sobel 1999 Lindbergh A. Scott Berg At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life Francine du Plessix Gray Egy csodálatos elme (A Beautiful Mind) Sylvia Nasar 1998 Personal History Katharine Graham Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public-Private Life James H. Jones Whittaker Chambers: A Biography Sam Tanenhaus 1997 Angyal a lépcsőn: Önéletrajz 19 éves koromig (Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir) Frank McCourt In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country Kim Barnes Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 1, 1819-1851 Hershel Parker 1996 God: A Biography Jack Miles John Sloan: Painter and Rebel John Loughery Mozart (Mozart: A Life) Maynard Solomon 1995 Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life Joan D. Hedrick Hugo Black: A Biography Roger K. Newman Saint-Exupery: A Biography Stacy Schiff 1994 W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 David Levering Lewis In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding Deborah Baker Genet: A Biography Edmund White 1993 Truman David McCullough Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman James Gleick Kissinger életrajz (Kissinger) Walter Isaacson 1992 Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet Lewis B. Puller Orwell: The Authorized Biography Michael Shelden Frederick Douglass William S. McFeely 1991 Jackson Pollock Steven Naifeh és Gregory White Smith The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918 Patricia O’Toole Alfred I. Du Pont: The Man and His Family Joseph Frazier Wall 1990 Machiavelli in Hell Sebastian de Grazia The Road From Coorain Jill Ker Conway Clear Pictures: First Loves, First Guides Reynolds Price A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt Geoffrey C. Ward 1989 Oscar Wilde Richard Ellmann Freud: A Life For Our Time Peter Gay The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II, 1941-1967: I Dream a World Arnold Rampersad A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Neil Sheehan 1988 Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe David Herbert Donald Hemingway Kenneth S. Lynn George Santayana: A Biography John Owen McCormick 1987 Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference David J. Garrow Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 Joseph Frank The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams Leonard L. Richards Murrow: His Life and Times A. M. Sperber 1986 Louise Bogan: A Portrait Elizabeth Frank George Washington Williams: A Biography John Hope Franklin A Hidden Childhood: A Jewish Girl’s Sanctuary in a French Convent, 1942-1945 Frida Scheps Weinstein 1985 The Life and Times of Cotton Mather Kenneth Silverman Becoming William James Howard M. Feinstein The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton Michael Mott 1984 Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 Louis R. Harlan Thomas Carlyle: A Biography Fred Kaplan Black Apollo of Science: the Life of Ernest Everett Kenneth Manning 1983 Growing Up Russell Baker Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry, 1874-1915 Ted Morgan Thomas E. Dewey and His Times Richard Norton Smith 1982 Grant: A Biography William McFeely Waldo Emerson Gay Wilson Allen Mornings on Horseback David McCullough 1981 Nagy Péter élete és kora (Peter the Great: His Life and World) Robert K. Massie Walt Whitman: A Life Justin Kaplan Walter Lippmann and the American Century Ronald Steel 1980 The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Edmund Morris Bernard Berenson, The Making of a Connoisseur Ernest Samuels Being Bernard Berenson Meryle Secrest The Duke of Deception Geoffrey Wolff 1979 Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews Leonard Baker 1978 Samuel Johnson Walter Jackson Bate 1977 A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence John E. Mack 1976 Edith Wharton: A Biography R. W. B. Lewis 1975 The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Robert Caro 1974 O’Neill, Son and Artist Louis Sheaffer 1973 Luce and His Empire W. A. Swanberg 1972 Eleanor and Franklin Joseph P. Lash 1971 Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915-1938 Lawrance Thompson 1970 Huey Long T. Harry Williams 1969 The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends Benjamin Lawrence Reid 1968 Memoirs George F. Kennan 1967 Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain Justin Kaplan 1966 A Thousand Days Arthur M. Schlesinger 1965 Henry Adams Ernest Samuels 1964 John Keats Walter Jackson Bate 1963 Henry James Leon Edel 1962 Nem osztottak díjat 1961 Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War David Donald 1960 John Paul Jones Samuel Eliot Morison 1959 Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet Arthur Walworth 1958 George Washington Douglas Southall Freeman 1957 Profiles in Courage John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1956 Benjamin Henry Latrobe Talbot Faulkner Hamlin 1955 The Taft Story William S. White 1954 The Spirit of St. Louis Charles A. Lindbergh 1953 Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803 David J. Mays 1952 Charles Evans Hughes Merlo J. Pusey 1951 John C. Calhoun: American Portrait Margaret Louise Coit 1950 John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy Samuel Flagg Bemis 1949 Roosevelt és Hopkins (Roosevelt and Hopkins) Robert E. Sherwood 1948 Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow Margaret Clapp 1947 The Autobiography of William Allen White William Allen White 1946 Son of the Wilderness Linnie Marsh Wolfe 1945 George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel Russell Blaine Nye 1944 The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse Carleton Mabee 1943 Admiral of the Ocean Sea Samuel Eliot Morison 1942 Crusader in Crinoline Forrest Wilson 1941 Jonathan Edward Ola Elizabeth Winslow 1940 Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII || style="background: #ddddff" | Ray Stannard Baker |- | align="center" | 1939 || style="background: #ddddff" | Benjamin Franklin Carl Van Doren 1938 Andrew Jackson Marquis James Pedlar’s Progress Odell Shepard 1937 Hamilton Fish Allan Nevins 1936 The Thought and Character of William James Ralph Barton Perry 1935 R. E. Lee Douglas S. Freeman 1934 John Hay Tyler Dennett 1933 Grover Cleveland Allan Nevins 1932 Theodore Roosevelt Henry F. Pringle 1931 Charles W. Eliot Henry James 1930 The Raven Marquis James 1929 The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page Burton J. Hendrick 1928 The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas Charles Edward Russell 1927 Whitman Emory Holloway 1926 The Life of Sir William Osler Harvey Cushing 1925 Barrett Wendell and His Letters M. A. Dewolfe Howe 1924 From Immigrant to Inventor Michael Idvorsky Pupin 1923 The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page Burton J. Hendrick 1922 A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1921 The Americanization of Edward Bok Edward Bok 1920 The Life of John Marshall Albert J. Beveridge 1919 The Education of Henry Adams Henry Adams 1918 Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed William Cabell Bruce 1917 Julia Ward Howe Laura E. Richards és Maude Howe Elliott
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