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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p>Der <b><a href="../Pulitzer-Preis" title="Pulitzer-Preis">Pulitzer-Preis</a> für Biographie oder Autobiographie</b> (<i>Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography</i>) wird seit <a href="../1917" title="1917">1917</a> vergeben. 1962 gab es keine Preisträger. Seit 2023 wird der Preis nur noch für Biographien vergeben, für Memoiren und Autobiographien existiert die neue Kategorie <b>Pulitzer-Preis für Memoiren oder Autobiographie</b> (<i>Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography</i>).
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Pulitzer-Preis_für_Biographie_oder_Autobiographie"><span id="Pulitzer-Preis_f.C3.BCr_Biographie_oder_Autobiographie"></span>Pulitzer-Preis für Biographie oder Autobiographie</h2></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1917–1919"><span id="1917.E2.80.931919"></span>1917–1919</h3></div>
<ul><li>1917: <i>Julia Ward Howe</i> von <a href="../Laura_E._Richards" title="Laura E. Richards">Laura E. Richards</a> und Maud Howe Elliott, unter Mitwirkung von Florence Howe Hall</li>
<li>1918: <i>Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed</i> von <a href="../William_Cabell_Bruce" title="William Cabell Bruce">William Cabell Bruce</a></li>
<li>1919: <i>The Education of Henry Adams</i> von <a href="../Henry_Adams" title="Henry Adams">Henry Adams</a></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1920–1929"><span id="1920.E2.80.931929"></span>1920–1929</h3></div>
<ul><li>1920: <i>The Life of John Marshall</i> (4 Bände) von <a href="../Albert_J._Beveridge" title="Albert J. Beveridge">Albert J. Beveridge</a></li>
<li>1921: <i>The Americanization of Edward Bok</i> von Edward Bok</li>
<li>1922: <i>A Daughter of the Middle Border</i> von <a href="../Hamlin_Garland" title="Hamlin Garland">Hamlin Garland</a></li>
<li>1923: <i>The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page</i> von <a href="../Burton_J._Hendrick" title="Burton J. Hendrick">Burton J. Hendrick</a></li>
<li>1924: <i>From Immigrant to Inventor</i> von <a href="../Mihajlo_Pupin" class="mw-redirect" title="Mihajlo Pupin">Mihajlo Pupin</a></li>
<li>1925: <i>Barrett Wendell and His Letters</i> von M. A. Dewolfe Howe</li>
<li>1926: <i>The Life of Sir William Osler</i> (2 Bände) von <a href="../Harvey_Cushing" title="Harvey Cushing">Harvey Cushing</a></li>
<li>1927: <i>Whitman</i> von <a href="../Emory_Holloway" title="Emory Holloway">Emory Holloway</a></li>
<li>1928: <i>The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas</i> von Charles Edward Russell</li>
<li>1929: <i>The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page</i> von Burton J. Hendrick</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1930–1939"><span id="1930.E2.80.931939"></span>1930–1939</h3></div>
<ul><li>1930: <i>The Raven</i> von Marquis James</li>
<li>1931: <i>Charles W. Eliot</i> von Henry James</li>
<li>1932: <i>Theodore Roosevelt</i> von Henry F. Pringle</li>
<li>1933: <i>Grover Cleveland</i> von <a href="../Allan_Nevins" title="Allan Nevins">Allan Nevins</a></li>
<li>1934: <i>John Hay</i> von Tyler Dennett</li>
<li>1935: <i>R. E. Lee</i> von <a href="../Douglas_Southall_Freeman" title="Douglas Southall Freeman">Douglas Southall Freeman</a></li>
<li>1936: <i>The Thought and Character of William James</i> von <a href="../Ralph_Barton_Perry" title="Ralph Barton Perry">Ralph Barton Perry</a></li>
<li>1937: <i>Hamilton Fish</i> von Allan Nevins</li>
<li>1938: <i>Pedlar's Progress</i> von <a href="../Odell_Shepard" title="Odell Shepard">Odell Shepard</a></li>
<li>1938: <i>Andrew Jackson</i> (2 Bände) von Marquis James</li>
<li>1939: <i>Benjamin Franklin</i> von Carl Van Doren</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1940–1949"><span id="1940.E2.80.931949"></span>1940–1949</h3></div>
<ul><li>1940: <i>Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters</i> (Band VII und VIII) von <a href="../Ray_Stannard_Baker" title="Ray Stannard Baker">Ray Stannard Baker</a></li>
<li>1941: <i>Jonathan Edward</i> von <a href="../Ola_Elizabeth_Winslow" title="Ola Elizabeth Winslow">Ola Elizabeth Winslow</a></li>
<li>1942: <i>Crusader in Crinoline</i> von Forrest Wilson</li>
<li>1943: <i>Admiral of the Ocean Sea</i> von <a href="../Samuel_Eliot_Morison" title="Samuel Eliot Morison">Samuel Eliot Morison</a></li>
<li>1944: <i>The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse</i> von Carleton Mabee</li>
<li>1945: <i>George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel</i> von Russel B. Nye</li>
<li>1946: <i>Son of the Wilderness</i> von <a href="../Linnie_Marsh_Wolfe" title="Linnie Marsh Wolfe">Linnie Marsh Wolfe</a></li>
<li>1947: <i>The Autobiography of William Allen White</i> von <a href="../William_Allen_White" title="William Allen White">William Allen White</a></li>
<li>1948: <i>Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow</i> von <a href="../Margaret_Clapp" title="Margaret Clapp">Margaret Clapp</a></li>
<li>1949: <i>Roosevelt and Hopkins</i> von <a href="../Robert_E._Sherwood" title="Robert E. Sherwood">Robert E. Sherwood</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li>1950: <i>John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy</i> von Samuel Flagg Bemis</li>
<li>1951: <i>John C. Calhoun: American Portrait</i> von <a href="../Margaret_Coit" title="Margaret Coit">Margaret Louise Coit</a></li>
<li>1952: <i>Charles Evans Hughes</i> von Merlo J. Pusey</li>
<li>1953: <i>Edmund Pendleton 1721–1803</i> von David J. Mays</li>
<li>1954: <i>The Spirit of St. Louis</i> von <a href="../Charles_Lindbergh" title="Charles Lindbergh">Charles A. Lindbergh</a></li>
<li>1955: <i>The Taft Story</i> von William S. White</li>
<li>1956: <i>Benjamin Henry Latrobe</i> von Talbot Faulkner Hamlin</li>
<li>1957: <i>Profiles in Courage</i> von <a href="../John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a></li>
<li>1958: <i>George Washington.</i> Band I-VI von Douglas Southall Freeman; Band VII von John Alexander Carroll und Mary Wells Ashworth nach dem Tod von Dr. Freeman im Jahre 1953</li>
<li>1959: <i>Woodrow Wilson, Volume I: American Prophet</i> von <a href="../Arthur_Walworth" title="Arthur Walworth">Arthur Walworth</a></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1960–1969"><span id="1960.E2.80.931969"></span>1960–1969</h3></div>
<ul><li>1960: <i>John Paul Jones</i> von Samuel Eliot Morison</li>
<li>1961: <i>Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War</i> von <a href="../David_Herbert_Donald" title="David Herbert Donald">David Herbert Donald</a></li>
<li>1962: nicht vergeben</li>
<li>1963: <i>Henry James</i> von Leon Edel</li>
<li>1964: <i>John Keats</i> von Walter Jackson Bate</li>
<li>1965: <i>Henry Adams</i> (3 Bände) von Ernest Samuels</li>
<li>1966: <i>A Thousand Days</i> von <a href="../Arthur_M._Schlesinger" title="Arthur M. Schlesinger">Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.</a></li>
<li>1967: <i>Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain</i> von Justin Kaplan</li>
<li>1968: <i>Memoirs</i> von <a href="../George_F._Kennan" title="George F. Kennan">George Frost Kennan</a></li>
<li>1969: <i>The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends</i> von Benjamin Lawrence Reid</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1970–1979"><span id="1970.E2.80.931979"></span>1970–1979</h3></div>
<ul><li>1970: <i>Huey Long</i> von <a href="../T._Harry_Williams" title="T. Harry Williams">T. Harry Williams</a></li>
<li>1971: <i>Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915–1938</i> von Lawrence Thompson</li>
<li>1972: <i>Eleanor and Franklin</i> von Joseph P. Lash</li>
<li>1973: <i>Luce and His Empire</i> von W. A. Swanberg</li>
<li>1974: <i>O'Neill, Son and Artist</i> von Louis Sheaffer</li>
<li>1975: <i>The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York</i> von <a href="../Robert_A._Caro" title="Robert A. Caro">Robert Caro</a></li>
<li>1976: <i>Edith Wharton: A Biography</i> von <a href="../R._W._B._Lewis" title="R. W. B. Lewis">R. W. B. Lewis</a></li>
<li>1977: <i>A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence</i> von <a href="../John_E._Mack" title="John E. Mack">John E. Mack</a></li>
<li>1978: <i>Samuel Johnson</i> von Walter Jackson Bate</li>
<li>1979: <i>Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews</i> von Leonard Baker</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1980–1989"><span id="1980.E2.80.931989"></span>1980–1989</h3></div>
<ul><li>1980: <i>The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt</i> von Edmund Morris</li>
<li>1981: <i>Peter the Great: His Life and World</i> von <a href="../Robert_K._Massie" title="Robert K. Massie">Robert K. Massie</a></li>
<li>1982: <i>Grant: A Biography</i> von William S. McFeely</li>
<li>1983: <i>Growing Up</i> von Russell Baker</li>
<li>1984: <i>Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915</i> von Louis R. Harlan</li>
<li>1985: <i>The Life and Times of Cotton Mather</i> von <a href="../Kenneth_Silverman" title="Kenneth Silverman">Kenneth Silverman</a></li>
<li>1986: <i>Louise Bogan: A Portrait</i> von Elizabeth Frank</li>
<li>1987: <i>Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference</i> von David J. Garrow</li>
<li>1988: <i>Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe</i> von David Herbert Donald</li>
<li>1989: <i>Oscar Wilde</i> von <a href="../Richard_Ellmann" title="Richard Ellmann">Richard Ellmann</a> (postum)</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1990–1999"><span id="1990.E2.80.931999"></span>1990–1999</h3></div>
<ul><li>1990: <i>Machiavelli in Hell</i> von <a href="../Sebastian_de_Grazia" title="Sebastian de Grazia">Sebastian de Grazia</a></li>
<li>1991: <i>Jackson Pollock: An American Saga</i> von Steven Naifeh und Gregory White Smith</li>
<li>1992: <i>Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller Jr.</i> von <a href="../Lewis_Burwell_Puller%2C_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr.">Lewis B. Puller</a></li>
<li>1993: <i>Truman</i> von <a href="../David_McCullough" title="David McCullough">David McCullough</a></li>
<li>1994: <i>W. E. B. Dubois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919</i> von <a href="../David_Levering_Lewis" title="David Levering Lewis">David Levering Lewis</a></li>
<li>1995: <i>Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life</i> von Joan D. Hedrick</li>
<li>1996: <i>God: A Biography</i> von <a href="../Jack_Miles_(Theologe)" title="Jack Miles (Theologe)">Jack Miles</a></li>
<li>1997: <i>Angela's Ashes: A Memoir</i> von <a href="../Frank_McCourt" title="Frank McCourt">Frank McCourt</a> (dt. <a href="../Die_Asche_meiner_Mutter" title="Die Asche meiner Mutter">Die Asche meiner Mutter</a>)</li>
<li>1998: <i>Personal History</i> von <a href="../Katharine_Graham" title="Katharine Graham">Katharine Graham</a></li>
<li>1999: <i>Lindbergh</i> von A. Scott Berg</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2000–2009"><span id="2000.E2.80.932009"></span>2000–2009</h3></div>
<ul><li>2000: <i>Vera, Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov</i> von <a href="../Stacy_Schiff" title="Stacy Schiff">Stacy Schiff</a></li>
<li>2001: <i>W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and The American Century, 1919–1963</i> von David Levering Lewis</li>
<li>2002: <i>John Adams</i> von David McCullough</li>
<li>2003: <i>Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson</i> von Robert Caro</li>
<li>2004: <i>Khrushchev: The Man and His Era</i> von <a href="../William_Taubman" title="William Taubman">William Taubman</a></li>
<li>2005: <i>de Kooning: An American Master</i> von Mark Stevens und Annalyn Swan</li>
<li>2006: <i>American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer</i> von Kai Bird und <a href="../Martin_J._Sherwin" title="Martin J. Sherwin">Martin J. Sherwin</a></li>
<li>2007: <i>The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher</i> von <a href="../Debby_Applegate" title="Debby Applegate">Debby Applegate</a></li>
<li>2008: <i>Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father</i> von John Matteson</li>
<li>2009: <i>American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House</i> von Jon Meacham</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2010–2019"><span id="2010.E2.80.932019"></span>2010–2019</h3></div>
<ul><li>2010: <i>The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt</i> von <a href="../T._J._Stiles" title="T. J. Stiles">T. J. Stiles</a></li>
<li>2011: <i>Washington: A Life</i> von <a href="../Ron_Chernow" title="Ron Chernow">Ron Chernow</a></li>
<li>2012: <i>George F. Kennan: An American Life</i> von <a href="../John_Lewis_Gaddis" title="John Lewis Gaddis">John Lewis Gaddis</a></li>
<li>2013: <i>The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo</i> von <a href="../Tom_Reiss" title="Tom Reiss">Tom Reiss</a></li>
<li>2014: <i>Margaret Fuller: A New American Life</i> von Megan Marshall</li>
<li>2015: <i>The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe</i> von <a href="../David_I._Kertzer" class="mw-redirect" title="David I. Kertzer">David I. Kertzer</a></li>
<li>2016: <i>Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life</i> von <a href="../William_Finnegan_(Autor)" title="William Finnegan (Autor)">William Finnegan</a></li>
<li>2017: <i>The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between</i> von <a href="../Hisham_Matar" title="Hisham Matar">Hisham Matar</a></li>
<li>2018: <i>Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder</i> von Caroline Fraser</li>
<li>2019: <i>The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke</i> von Jeffrey C. Stewart</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2020–2022"><span id="2020.E2.80.932022"></span>2020–2022</h3></div>
<ul><li>2020: <i><a href="../Susan_Sontag" title="Susan Sontag">Sontag</a>: Her Life and Work</i> von <a href="../Benjamin_Moser_(Autor)" title="Benjamin Moser (Autor)">Benjamin Moser</a></li>
<li>2021: <i>The Dead Are Arising: The Life of <a href="../Malcolm_X" title="Malcolm X">Malcolm X</a></i> von Les Payne (postum) und Tamara Payne</li>
<li>2022: <i>Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South</i> von Winfred Rembert (1945–2021) as told to Erin I. Kelly</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Pulitzer-Preis_für_Biographie"><span id="Pulitzer-Preis_f.C3.BCr_Biographie"></span>Pulitzer-Preis für Biographie</h2></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2023–2029"><span id="2023.E2.80.932029"></span>2023–2029</h3></div>
<ul><li>2023: <i>G-Man: <a href="../J._Edgar_Hoover" title="J. Edgar Hoover">J. Edgar Hoover</a> and the Making of the American Century</i> von Beverly Gage</li>
<li>2024: <i><a href="../Martin_Luther_King" title="Martin Luther King">King</a>: A Life</i> von Jonathan Eig; <i>Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom</i> von Ilyon Woo</li>
<li>2025: <i>Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life</i> von Jason Roberts</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Weblinks">Weblinks</h2></div>
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