The Pulitzer Prize for Biography is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. The award honors "a distinguished and appropriately documented biography by an American author." Award winners receive US$15,000. From 1917 to 2022, this prize was known as the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and was awarded to a distinguished biography, autobiography or memoir by an American author or co-authors, published during the preceding calendar year. It is one of the original Pulitzers. The program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year.

Recipients

In its first 97 years to 2013, the Biography Pulitzer was awarded 97 times. Two were given in 1938, and none in 1962.

1910s-1940s

1950s-1970s

1980s

Entries from this point on include the finalists listed after the winner for each year.

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Repeat winners

Ten people have won the Pulitzer for Biography or Autobiography twice: * Burton J. Hendrick, 1923, 1929 * Allan Nevins, 1933, 1937 * Marquis James, 1930, 1938 * Douglas S. Freeman, 1935, 1958 * Samuel Eliot Morison, 1943, 1960 * Walter Jackson Bate, 1964, 1978 * David Herbert Donald, 1961, 1988 * David Levering Lewis, 1994, 2001 *

David McCullough David Gaub McCullough (; July 7, 1933 – August 7, 2022) was an American popular historian. He was a two-time winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In 2006, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United S ...

, 1993, 2002 * Robert Caro, 1975, 2003 W. A. Swanberg was selected by the Pulitzer board in 1962 and 1973; however, the trustees of Columbia University (then responsible for conferral of the awards) overturned the proposed 1962 prize for ''Citizen Hearst''.

References

External links

* {{PulitzerPrize BiographyorAutobiographyAuthors

Biography A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or curri ...

Biography awards Awards established in 1917 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners Biography