Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Pulitzer Prize for Biography Public
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Margaret Fuller by Megan Marshall
rom an early age, Margaret Fuller provoked and dazzled New England’s intellectual elite. Her famous Conversations changed women’s sense of …
Phil in SF says: 2014 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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The Pope and Mussolini by David I. Kertzer
From National Book Award finalist David I. Kertzer comes the gripping story of Pope Pius XI’s secret relations with Italian …
Phil in SF says: 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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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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Prairie fires by Caroline Fraser
4 stars
"This book, written by the editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House books, is a thoroughly …
Phil in SF says: 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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The new Negro by Jeffrey C. Stewart
"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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The definitive portrait of one of the American Century's most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public …
Phil in SF says: 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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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
3 stars
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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Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil …
Phil in SF says: 2024 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Every Living Thing by Jason Roberts
In the eighteenth century, two men—exact contemporaries and polar opposites—dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing …
Phil in SF says: 2025 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
