2006 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner
![American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580875837-1060-image-3.jpg)
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
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 the moral consequences of scientific pr…
2006 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Shortlist
![A Beautiful Mind](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580872545-788-image-3.jpg)
A Beautiful Mind
Sylvia Nasar
![George Santayana: A Biography](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581062683-8110-image-3.jpg)
George Santayana: A Biography
John Owen McCormick
![Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580855690-59629-image-3.jpg)
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
Leo Damrosch
![The Road From Coorain](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580965111-2422-image-3.jpg)