Pulitzer Prize for Biography

Pulitzer Prize for Biography Winners and Finalists are listed below. The star rating and number of reviews are from Amazon.com. In parentheses after the star rating and number of reviews are the number of pages in the book and any other awards that the book was a finalist for. Award names in red indicate the the book was the winner of that award. Click the buy from Amazon.com link to be taken to the Amazon.com website where you can purchase the book from the premier online bookseller.

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2010 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Winners and Finalists

The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles Winner! 63 reviews (2009) (736p) (PP Bio) (NBA Non) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

John Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey 30 reviews (2009) (784p) (PP Bio) (NBCCA Bio) (TIME Non) Author: TotNom=3 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=2 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Woodrow Wilson: A Biography by John Milton Cooper 17 reviews (2009) (720p) (PP Bio) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Winners and Finalists

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham Winner! 206 reviews (2008) (512p) (PP Bio) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H. W. Brands 50 reviews (2008) (896p) (PP Bio) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=2 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family In An American Century by Steve Coll 41 reviews (2008) (688p) (PP Bio) (NBCCA Bio) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=3 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=2 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

2008 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Winners and Finalists

Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson Winner! 16 reviews (2007) (528p) (PP Bio) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein by Martin Duberman 4 reviews (2007) (736p) (PP Bio) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Life of Kingsley Amis by Zachary Leader 4 reviews (2007) (1008p) (PP Bio) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Winners and Finalists

The Most Famous Man in Amerca: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate Winner! 44 reviews (2006) (304p) (PP Bio) (NBCCA Bio) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty by Arthur H. Cash 8 reviews (2007) (544p) (PP Bio) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw 32 reviews (2007) (896p) (PP Bio) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Winners and Finalists

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird Winner! 93 reviews (2005) (736p) (PP Bio) (NBCCA Bio) (TIME Non) (Amazon Dec EBio) (Amazon 05 EBio) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 549 reviews (2005) (240p) (NBCCA Mem) (PP Bio) (NBA Non) (NYTimes Non) (TIME Non) (Amazon 05 C50) (Amazon 05 E50) (Amazon 05 CBio) Author: TotNom=4 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=2 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism by Megan Marshall 22 reviews (2005) (624p) (PP Bio) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

2005 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Winners and Finalists

De Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens Winner! 32 reviews (2004) (752p) (PP Bio) (NBCCA Bio) (NYTimes Non) (Amazon Dec EBio) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt 38 reviews (2004) (384p) (PP Bio) (NBCCA Bio) (NBA Non) (NYTimes Non) (TIME Non) (Amazon Dec EBio) (Amazon 04 E50) Author: TotNom=3 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America by William Souder 4 reviews (2004) (384p) (PP Bio) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

2004 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Winners and Finalists

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman Winner! 50 reviews (2003) (908p) (PP Bio) (NBCCA Bio) (NYTimes Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Isaac Newton by James Gleick 87 reviews (2003) (288p) (PP Bio) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work by Hayden Herrera 3 reviews (2003) (112p) (PP Bio) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

2003 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Winners and Finalists

Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro Winner! 148 reviews (2002) (1200p) (PP Bio) (NBCCA Bio) (NBA Non) (ALA Non) (Amazon Dec CBio) (Amazon 02 C50) Author: TotNom=3 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Fly Swatter by Nicholas Dawidoff 4 reviews (2002) (368p) (PP Bio) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Beethoven: The Music and the Life by Lewis Lockwood 13 reviews (2002) (604p) (PP Bio) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

2002 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Winners and Finalists

John Adams by David McCullough Winner! 878 reviews (2001) (736p) (PP Bio) (NYTimes Non) (TIME Non) (Amazon Dec EBio) (ALA Non) (Amazon Dec CBio) (Amazon Dec C50) (Amazon 01 C50) (Amazon 01 E50) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood by Jimmy Carter 72 reviews (2001) (0p) (PP Bio) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Grant by Jean Edward Smith 70 reviews (2001) (781p) (PP Bio) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

2001 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Winners and Finalists

W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis Winner! 11 reviews (2000) (608p) (PP Bio) (NBA Non) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by H. W. Brands 136 reviews (2000) (768p) (PP Bio) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=2 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician by Christoph Wolff 26 reviews (2000) (624p) (PP Bio) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

2000 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Winners and Finalists

Véra by Stacy Schiff Winner! 24 reviews (1999) (480p) (PP Bio) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Clear Springs: A Memoir by Bobbie Ann Mason 18 reviews (1999) (296p) (PP Bio) Author: TotNom=5 UnqBooks=3 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=2 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel 242 reviews (1999) (296p) (PP Bio) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page