This list contains Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, autobiography, and memoir by American authors from 1918 to 2021. The Pulitzer Prizes and Fellowships were established in Columbia University by Joseph Pulitzer. Prizes are awarded by the University on the recommendation of The Pulitzer Prize Board and are announced in Spring. Nominees are organized into 22 categories across journalism, books, drama and music.
 The life and letters of Walter H. Page
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 Henry James: The Treacherous Years: 1895-1901
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 John Keats
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 Henry Adams: The Middle Years
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 A thousand days : John F. Kennedy in the White House
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 Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography
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 Memoirs, 1925-1950
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 The Man from New York The Man from New York: John Quinn and His Friends
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 Huey Long
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 Bill Martin's Instant Readers
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 Eleanor and Franklin
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 Luce and His Empire
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 O'Neill
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 Edith Wharton: A Biography
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 Samuel Johnson
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 Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews
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 Peter the Great
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 Grant
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 Growing Up
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 Booker T. Washington
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 The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
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 Louise Bogan: A Portrait
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 Look Homeward
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 Oscar Wilde
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 Machiavelli in Hell
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 Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
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 Fortunate Son
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 Truman
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 Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life
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 God
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 Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
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 Personal History
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 Lindbergh
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 Vera
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 W.E.B. Du Bois: A Reader
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 Master of the Senate
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 Eden's Outcasts
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 Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
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 Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
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 Sontag
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 Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910
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 Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed
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 The Americanization of Edward Bok
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 Michael Pupin, From Immigrant to Inventor Michael Pupin, From Immigrant to Inventor
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Barrett Wendell and His Letters Barrett Wendell and His Letters
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 The Life of Sir William Osler, Volume 1 The Life of Sir William Osler, Volume 1
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 Whitman Whitman
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 The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas
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 The Training of an American The Training of an American
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 The Raven
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Charles W. Eliot Charles W. Eliot
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 Theodore Roosevelt
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Grover Cleveland Grover Cleveland
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 John Hay
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 R.E. Lee, a biography.
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The Thought and Character of William James As Revealed in Unpublished Correspondence and Notes Together With His Published Writings The Thought and Character of William James As Revealed in Unpublished Correspondence and Notes Together With His Published Writings
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Hamilton Fish Hamilton Fish
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The life of Andrew Jackson The life of Andrew Jackson
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 Pedlar's Progress
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 Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters
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 Jonathan Edwards: 1703-1758
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 Crusader in Crinoline
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 Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus
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 The American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel F.B. Morse
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 George Bancroft, Brahmin Rebel
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 Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir
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 The Autobiography of William Allen White
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 Forgotten First Citizen Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow
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 John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy
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 John C. Calhoun: American Portrait
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Charles Evans Hughes Charles Evans Hughes
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 Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803, Volume I
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The Taft Story The Taft Story
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 Benjamin Henry Latrobe Benjamin Henry Latrobe
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 The Education of Henry Adams
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 The Life Of John Marshall
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 A Son of the Middle Border
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 Benjamin Franklin
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 Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History
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 The Spirit of St. Louis
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 Profiles in Courage
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 Charles Sumner and The Coming of the Civil War
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 Henry James
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 The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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 A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T.E. Lawrence
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 The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
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 Bearing the Cross
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 Angela's Ashes
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 John Adams
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 Khrushchev
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 De Kooning
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 American Prometheus
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 The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
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 American Lion
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 The First Tycoon
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 Washington: A Life
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 George F. Kennan
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 The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
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 The Pope and Mussolini
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 Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
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