Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke

Jeffrey C. Stewart

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Caroline Fraser

The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between

Hisham Matar

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

William Finnegan

The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe

David I. Kertzer

Margaret Fuller: A New American Life

Megan Marshall

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

Tom Reiss

George F. Kennan: An American Life

John Lewis Gaddis

Washington: A Life

Ron Chernow

The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

T.J. Stiles

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Jon Meacham

Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father

John Matteson

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

Debby Applegate

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

Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

de Kooning: An American Master

Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era

William Taubman

Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

Robert A. Caro

John Adams

David McCullough

W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963

David Levering Lewis

Vera, Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov

Stacy Schiff

Lindbergh

A. Scott Berg

Personal History

Katharine Graham

Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir

Frank McCourt

God: A Biography

Jack Miles

Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life

Joan D. Hedrick

W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919

David Levering Lewis

Truman

David McCullough

Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller Jr.

Lewis B. Puller

Jackson Pollock: An American Saga

Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith

Machiavelli in Hell

Sebastian de Grazia

Oscar Wilde

Richard Ellmann

Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe

David Herbert Donald

Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

David J. Garrow

Louise Bogan: A Portrait

Elizabeth Frank

The Life and Times of Cotton Mather

Kenneth Silverman

Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915

Louis R. Harlan

Growing Up

Russell Baker

Grant: A Biography

William S. McFeely

Peter the Great: His Life and World

Robert K. Massie

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Edmund Morris

Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews

Leonard Baker

Samuel Johnson

Walter Jackson Bate

A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence

John E. Mack

Edith Wharton: A Biography

R. W. B. Lewis

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Robert Caro

O’Neill, Son and Artist

Louis Sheaffer

Luce and His Empire

W. A. Swanberg

Eleanor and Franklin

Joseph P. Lash

Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915–1938,

Lawrance Thompson

Huey Long

Thomas Harry Williams

The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends

Benjamin Lawrence Reid

Memoirs

George F. Kennan

Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain

Justin Kaplan

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

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Henry Adams, 3 vols.,

Ernest Samuels

John Keats

Walter Jackson Bate

Henry James

Leon Edel

No award given

Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War

David Donald

John Paul Jones

Samuel Eliot Morison

Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet

Arthur Walworth

George Washington, Volumes I-VII

Douglas Southall Freeman with John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth

Profiles in Courage

John F. Kennedy

Benjamin Henry Latrobe

Talbot Faulkner Hamlin

The Taft Story

William S. White

The Spirit of St. Louis

Charles A. Lindbergh

Edmund Pendleton 1721–1803

David J. Mays

Charles Evans Hughes

Merlo J. Pusey

John C. Calhoun: American Portrait

Margaret Louise Coit

John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy

Samuel Flagg Bemis

Roosevelt and Hopkins

Robert E. Sherwood

Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow

Margaret Clapp

The Autobiography of William Allen White

William Allen White

Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir

Linnie Marsh Wolfe

George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel

Russel Blaine Nye

The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse

Carleton Mabee

Admiral of the Ocean Sea

Samuel Eliot Morison

Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe

Forrest Wilson

Jonathan Edwards, 1703–1758: a biography

Ola Elizabeth Winslow

Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII

Ray Stannard Baker

Benjamin Franklin

Carl Van Doren

Andrew Jackson, 2 vols.

Marquis James

Hamilton Fish

Allan Nevins

The Thought and Character of William James

Ralph Barton Perry

R. E. Lee

Douglas S. Freeman

John Hay

Tyler Dennett

Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage

Allan Nevins

Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography

Henry F. Pringle

Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University, 1869–1901

Henry James

The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston

Marquis James

The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page

Burton J. Hendrick

The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas

Charles Edward Russell

Whitman

Emory Holloway

The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols.

Harvey Cushing

Barrett Wendell and His Letters

M. A. Dewolfe Howe

From Immigrant to Inventor

Michael I. Pupin

The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page

Burton J. Hendrick

A Daughter of the Middle Border

Hamlin Garland

The Americanization of Edward Bok

Edward Bok

The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols.

Albert J. Beveridge

The Education of Henry Adams

Henry Adams

Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed

William Cabell Bruce

Julia Ward Howe

Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall