For mere curiosity sake I have included the yearly winners in the Biography / Autobiography category for the Pulitzer Prize.
I don't have a goal to read all of these in the next five year, but I would like to try and read a least one a year.
As much as I enjoy history and memoirs I am not one for always agreeing with critics, so I am leery to jump in with both feet and commit to reading all these.
I don't have a goal to read all of these in the next five year, but I would like to try and read a least one a year.
As much as I enjoy history and memoirs I am not one for always agreeing with critics, so I am leery to jump in with both feet and commit to reading all these.
Listed by year won, I will note recent reads starting in October 2012.
2013 The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
2012 George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
2011 Washington : A Life by Ron Chernow
2010 The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles
2009 American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
2008 "Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father" by John Matteson
2007 The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate
2006 American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
2005 de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
2004 Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman
2003 Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
2002 John Adams by David McCullough
2001 W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis
2000 Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) by Stacy Schiff
1999 Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg
1998 Personal History by Katharine Graham
1997 Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
1996 God: A Biography by Jack Miles
1995 Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life by Joan D. Hedrick
1994 W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis
1993 Truman by David McCullough
1992 Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet by Lewis B. Puller
1991 Jackson Pollock by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
1990 Machiavelli in Hell by Sebastian de Grazia
1989 Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann
1988 Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald
1987 Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow
1986 Louise Bogan: A Portrait by Elizabeth Frank
1985 The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman
1984 Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 by Louis R. Harlan
1983 Growing Up by Russell Baker
1982 Grant: A Biography by William McFeely
1981 Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie
1980 The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
1979 Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews by Leonard Baker
1978 Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate
1977 A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence by John E. Mack
1976 Edith Wharton: A Biography by R. W. B. Lewis
1975 The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro
1974 O'Neill, Son and Artist by Louis Sheaffer
1973 Luce and His Empire by W. A. Swanberg
1972 Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash
1971 Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915 -1938 by Lawrance Thompson
1970 Huey Long by T. Harry Williams
1969 The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends by Benjamin Lawrence Reid
1968 Memoirs by George F. Kennan
1967 Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain by Justin Kaplan
1966 A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger
1965 Henry Adams, three volumes by Ernest Samuels
1964 John Keats by Walter Jackson Bate
1963 Henry James by Leon Edel
1962 (No Award)
1961 Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War by David Donald
1960 John Paul Jones by Samuel Eliot Morison
1959 Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet by Arthur Walworth
1958 George Washington, Volumes I-VI by Douglas Southall Freeman
1957 Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
1956 Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Talbot Faulkner Hamlin
1955 The Taft Story by William S. White
1954 The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh
1953 Edmund Pendleton 1721-1803 by David J. Mays
1952 Charles Evans Hughes by Merlo J. Pusey
1951 John C. Calhoun: American Portrait by Margaret Louise Coit
1950 John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis
1949 Roosevelt and Hopkins by Robert E. Sherwood
1948 Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow by Margaret Clapp
1947 The Autobiography of William Allen White by William Allen White
1946 Son of the Wilderness by Linnie Marsh Wolfe
1945 George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel by Russell Blaine Nye
1944 The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse by Carleton Mabee
1943 Admiral of the Ocean Sea by Samuel Eliot Morison
1942 Crusader in Crinoline by Forrest Wilson
1941 Jonathan Edward by Ola Elizabeth Winslow
1940 Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII by Ray Stannard Baker
1939 Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren
1938 Andrew Jackson, 2 vols. by Marquis James
1938 Pedlar's Progress by Odell Shepard
1937 Hamilton Fish by Allan Nevins
1936 The Thought and Character of William James by Ralph Barton Perry
1935 R. E. Lee by Douglas S. Freeman
1934 John Hay by Tyler Dennett
1933 Grover Cleveland by Allan Nevins
1932 Theodore Roosevelt by Henry F. Pringle
1931 Charles W. Eliot by Henry James
1930 The Raven by Marquis James
1929 The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page by Burton J. Hendrick
1928 The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas by Charles Edward Russell
1927 Whitman by Emory Holloway
1926 The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols. by Harvey Cushing
1925 Barrett Wendell and His Letters by M. A. Dewolfe Howe
1924 From Immigrant to Inventor by Michael Idvorsky Pupin
1923 The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page by Burton J. Hendrick
1922 A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
1921 The Americanization of Edward Bok by Edward Bok
1920 The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols. by Albert J. Beveridge
1919 The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
1918 Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed by William Cabell Bruce
1917 Julia Ward Howe by Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott assisted by Florence Howe Hall
[Notice: Original posting 2013-12-22 at Plethora of Books Blog: http://bookchallenges.weebly.com]
Tags: Pulitzer Prize, Non Fiction, Biography, Autobiography
2013 The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
2012 George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
2011 Washington : A Life by Ron Chernow
2010 The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles
2009 American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
2008 "Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father" by John Matteson
2007 The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate
2006 American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
2005 de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
2004 Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman
2003 Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
2002 John Adams by David McCullough
2001 W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis
2000 Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) by Stacy Schiff
1999 Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg
1998 Personal History by Katharine Graham
1997 Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
1996 God: A Biography by Jack Miles
1995 Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life by Joan D. Hedrick
1994 W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis
1993 Truman by David McCullough
1992 Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet by Lewis B. Puller
1991 Jackson Pollock by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
1990 Machiavelli in Hell by Sebastian de Grazia
1989 Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann
1988 Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald
1987 Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow
1986 Louise Bogan: A Portrait by Elizabeth Frank
1985 The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman
1984 Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 by Louis R. Harlan
1983 Growing Up by Russell Baker
1982 Grant: A Biography by William McFeely
1981 Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie
1980 The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
1979 Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews by Leonard Baker
1978 Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate
1977 A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence by John E. Mack
1976 Edith Wharton: A Biography by R. W. B. Lewis
1975 The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro
1974 O'Neill, Son and Artist by Louis Sheaffer
1973 Luce and His Empire by W. A. Swanberg
1972 Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash
1971 Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915 -1938 by Lawrance Thompson
1970 Huey Long by T. Harry Williams
1969 The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends by Benjamin Lawrence Reid
1968 Memoirs by George F. Kennan
1967 Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain by Justin Kaplan
1966 A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger
1965 Henry Adams, three volumes by Ernest Samuels
1964 John Keats by Walter Jackson Bate
1963 Henry James by Leon Edel
1962 (No Award)
1961 Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War by David Donald
1960 John Paul Jones by Samuel Eliot Morison
1959 Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet by Arthur Walworth
1958 George Washington, Volumes I-VI by Douglas Southall Freeman
1957 Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
1956 Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Talbot Faulkner Hamlin
1955 The Taft Story by William S. White
1954 The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh
1953 Edmund Pendleton 1721-1803 by David J. Mays
1952 Charles Evans Hughes by Merlo J. Pusey
1951 John C. Calhoun: American Portrait by Margaret Louise Coit
1950 John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis
1949 Roosevelt and Hopkins by Robert E. Sherwood
1948 Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow by Margaret Clapp
1947 The Autobiography of William Allen White by William Allen White
1946 Son of the Wilderness by Linnie Marsh Wolfe
1945 George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel by Russell Blaine Nye
1944 The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse by Carleton Mabee
1943 Admiral of the Ocean Sea by Samuel Eliot Morison
1942 Crusader in Crinoline by Forrest Wilson
1941 Jonathan Edward by Ola Elizabeth Winslow
1940 Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII by Ray Stannard Baker
1939 Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren
1938 Andrew Jackson, 2 vols. by Marquis James
1938 Pedlar's Progress by Odell Shepard
1937 Hamilton Fish by Allan Nevins
1936 The Thought and Character of William James by Ralph Barton Perry
1935 R. E. Lee by Douglas S. Freeman
1934 John Hay by Tyler Dennett
1933 Grover Cleveland by Allan Nevins
1932 Theodore Roosevelt by Henry F. Pringle
1931 Charles W. Eliot by Henry James
1930 The Raven by Marquis James
1929 The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page by Burton J. Hendrick
1928 The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas by Charles Edward Russell
1927 Whitman by Emory Holloway
1926 The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols. by Harvey Cushing
1925 Barrett Wendell and His Letters by M. A. Dewolfe Howe
1924 From Immigrant to Inventor by Michael Idvorsky Pupin
1923 The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page by Burton J. Hendrick
1922 A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
1921 The Americanization of Edward Bok by Edward Bok
1920 The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols. by Albert J. Beveridge
1919 The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
1918 Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed by William Cabell Bruce
1917 Julia Ward Howe by Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott assisted by Florence Howe Hall
[Notice: Original posting 2013-12-22 at Plethora of Books Blog: http://bookchallenges.weebly.com]
Tags: Pulitzer Prize, Non Fiction, Biography, Autobiography