Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Pulitzer Prize for Biography Public
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Phil in SF says: 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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When Hisham Matar was a nineteen-year-old university student in England, his father was kidnapped. One of the Qaddafi regime’s most …
Phil in SF says: 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the "Little House on the Prairie" books
…Phil in SF says: 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of …
Phil in SF says: 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser
No writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a …
Phil in SF says: 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne, Tamara Payne
An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author’s interviews, rewriting much of …
Phil in SF says: 2021 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Chasing Me to My Grave by Winfred Rembert, Erin I. Kelly
Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager. …
Phil in SF says: 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the American Century by Beverly Gage
We remember him as a bulldog--squat frame, bulging wide-set eyes, fearsome jowls--but in 1924, when he became director of the …
Phil in SF says: 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo
In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the …
Phil in SF says: 2024 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Phil in SF says: 2024 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Phil in SF says: 2025 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
