2008 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner

Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
John Matteson
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa’s youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson—an eminent teacher and a friend of Emerson and Thoreau. He desired perfection, for the world and from hi…
2008 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Shortlist

Andrew Carnegie
David Nasaw

Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism
Thomas Brothers

The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
Steve Coll
