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Der `!`F33f`_`[Pulitzer-Preis`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Pulitzer-Preis]`_`f für Biographie oder Autobiographie`! (`*Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography`*) wird seit `F33f`_`[1917`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=1917]`_`f vergeben. 1962 gab es keine Preisträger. Seit 2023 wird der Preis nur noch für Biographien vergeben, für Memoiren und Autobiographien existiert die neue Kategorie `!Pulitzer-Preis für Memoiren oder Autobiographie`! (`*Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography`*).
>>Contents
• `F0af`_`[Pulitzer-Preis für Biographie oder Autobiographie`#pulitzer-preis-f-r-biographie-oder-autobiographie]`_`f
• `F0af`_`[1917–1919`#1917-1919]`_`f
• `F0af`_`[1920–1929`#1920-1929]`_`f
• `F0af`_`[1930–1939`#1930-1939]`_`f
• `F0af`_`[1940–1949`#1940-1949]`_`f
• `F0af`_`[1950–1959`#1950-1959]`_`f
• `F0af`_`[1960–1969`#1960-1969]`_`f
• `F0af`_`[1970–1979`#1970-1979]`_`f
• `F0af`_`[1980–1989`#1980-1989]`_`f
• `F0af`_`[1990–1999`#1990-1999]`_`f
• `F0af`_`[2000–2009`#2000-2009]`_`f
• `F0af`_`[2010–2019`#2010-2019]`_`f
• `F0af`_`[2020–2022`#2020-2022]`_`f
• `F0af`_`[Pulitzer-Preis für Biographie`#pulitzer-preis-f-r-biographie]`_`f
• `F0af`_`[2023–2029`#2023-2029]`_`f
• `F0af`_`[Weblinks`#weblinks]`_`f
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>>Pulitzer-Preis für Biographie oder Autobiographie
>>>1917–1919
• 1917: `*Julia Ward Howe`* von `F33f`_`[Laura E. Richards`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Laura_E._Richards]`_`f und Maud Howe Elliott, unter Mitwirkung von Florence Howe Hall
• 1918: `*Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed`* von `F33f`_`[William Cabell Bruce`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=William_Cabell_Bruce]`_`f
• 1919: `*The Education of Henry Adams`* von `F33f`_`[Henry Adams`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Henry_Adams]`_`f
>>>1920–1929
• 1920: `*The Life of John Marshall`* (4 Bände) von `F33f`_`[Albert J. Beveridge`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Albert_J._Beveridge]`_`f
• 1921: `*The Americanization of Edward Bok`* von Edward Bok
• 1922: `*A Daughter of the Middle Border`* von `F33f`_`[Hamlin Garland`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Hamlin_Garland]`_`f
• 1923: `*The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page`* von `F33f`_`[Burton J. Hendrick`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Burton_J._Hendrick]`_`f
• 1924: `*From Immigrant to Inventor`* von `F33f`_`[Mihajlo Pupin`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Mihajlo_Pupin]`_`f
• 1925: `*Barrett Wendell and His Letters`* von M. A. Dewolfe Howe
• 1926: `*The Life of Sir William Osler`* (2 Bände) von `F33f`_`[Harvey Cushing`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Harvey_Cushing]`_`f
• 1927: `*Whitman`* von `F33f`_`[Emory Holloway`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Emory_Holloway]`_`f
• 1928: `*The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas`* von Charles Edward Russell
• 1929: `*The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page`* von Burton J. Hendrick
>>>1930–1939
• 1930: `*The Raven`* von Marquis James
• 1931: `*Charles W. Eliot`* von Henry James
• 1932: `*Theodore Roosevelt`* von Henry F. Pringle
• 1933: `*Grover Cleveland`* von `F33f`_`[Allan Nevins`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Allan_Nevins]`_`f
• 1934: `*John Hay`* von Tyler Dennett
• 1935: `*R. E. Lee`* von `F33f`_`[Douglas Southall Freeman`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Douglas_Southall_Freeman]`_`f
• 1936: `*The Thought and Character of William James`* von `F33f`_`[Ralph Barton Perry`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Ralph_Barton_Perry]`_`f
• 1937: `*Hamilton Fish`* von Allan Nevins
• 1938: `*Pedlar's Progress`* von `F33f`_`[Odell Shepard`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Odell_Shepard]`_`f
• 1938: `*Andrew Jackson`* (2 Bände) von Marquis James
• 1939: `*Benjamin Franklin`* von Carl Van Doren
>>>1940–1949
• 1940: `*Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters`* (Band VII und VIII) von `F33f`_`[Ray Stannard Baker`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Ray_Stannard_Baker]`_`f
• 1941: `*Jonathan Edward`* von `F33f`_`[Ola Elizabeth Winslow`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Ola_Elizabeth_Winslow]`_`f
• 1942: `*Crusader in Crinoline`* von Forrest Wilson
• 1943: `*Admiral of the Ocean Sea`* von `F33f`_`[Samuel Eliot Morison`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Samuel_Eliot_Morison]`_`f
• 1944: `*The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse`* von Carleton Mabee
• 1945: `*George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel`* von Russel B. Nye
• 1946: `*Son of the Wilderness`* von `F33f`_`[Linnie Marsh Wolfe`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Linnie_Marsh_Wolfe]`_`f
• 1947: `*The Autobiography of William Allen White`* von `F33f`_`[William Allen White`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=William_Allen_White]`_`f
• 1948: `*Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow`* von `F33f`_`[Margaret Clapp`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Margaret_Clapp]`_`f
• 1949: `*Roosevelt and Hopkins`* von `F33f`_`[Robert E. Sherwood`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Robert_E._Sherwood]`_`f
>>>1950–1959
• 1950: `*John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy`* von Samuel Flagg Bemis
• 1951: `*John C. Calhoun: American Portrait`* von `F33f`_`[Margaret Louise Coit`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Margaret_Coit]`_`f
• 1952: `*Charles Evans Hughes`* von Merlo J. Pusey
• 1953: `*Edmund Pendleton 1721–1803`* von David J. Mays
• 1954: `*The Spirit of St. Louis`* von `F33f`_`[Charles A. Lindbergh`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Charles_Lindbergh]`_`f
• 1955: `*The Taft Story`* von William S. White
• 1956: `*Benjamin Henry Latrobe`* von Talbot Faulkner Hamlin
• 1957: `*Profiles in Courage`* von `F33f`_`[John F. Kennedy`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=John_F._Kennedy]`_`f
• 1958: `*George Washington.`* 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
• 1959: `*Woodrow Wilson, Volume I: American Prophet`* von `F33f`_`[Arthur Walworth`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Arthur_Walworth]`_`f
>>>1960–1969
• 1960: `*John Paul Jones`* von Samuel Eliot Morison
• 1961: `*Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War`* von `F33f`_`[David Herbert Donald`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=David_Herbert_Donald]`_`f
• 1962: nicht vergeben
• 1963: `*Henry James`* von Leon Edel
• 1964: `*John Keats`* von Walter Jackson Bate
• 1965: `*Henry Adams`* (3 Bände) von Ernest Samuels
• 1966: `*A Thousand Days`* von `F33f`_`[Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Arthur_M._Schlesinger]`_`f
• 1967: `*Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain`* von Justin Kaplan
• 1968: `*Memoirs`* von `F33f`_`[George Frost Kennan`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=George_F._Kennan]`_`f
• 1969: `*The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends`* von Benjamin Lawrence Reid
>>>1970–1979
• 1970: `*Huey Long`* von `F33f`_`[T. Harry Williams`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=T._Harry_Williams]`_`f
• 1971: `*Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915–1938`* von Lawrence Thompson
• 1972: `*Eleanor and Franklin`* von Joseph P. Lash
• 1973: `*Luce and His Empire`* von W. A. Swanberg
• 1974: `*O'Neill, Son and Artist`* von Louis Sheaffer
• 1975: `*The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York`* von `F33f`_`[Robert Caro`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Robert_A._Caro]`_`f
• 1976: `*Edith Wharton: A Biography`* von `F33f`_`[R. W. B. Lewis`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=R._W._B._Lewis]`_`f
• 1977: `*A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence`* von `F33f`_`[John E. Mack`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=John_E._Mack]`_`f
• 1978: `*Samuel Johnson`* von Walter Jackson Bate
• 1979: `*Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews`* von Leonard Baker
>>>1980–1989
• 1980: `*The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt`* von Edmund Morris
• 1981: `*Peter the Great: His Life and World`* von `F33f`_`[Robert K. Massie`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Robert_K._Massie]`_`f
• 1982: `*Grant: A Biography`* von William S. McFeely
• 1983: `*Growing Up`* von Russell Baker
• 1984: `*Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915`* von Louis R. Harlan
• 1985: `*The Life and Times of Cotton Mather`* von `F33f`_`[Kenneth Silverman`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Kenneth_Silverman]`_`f
• 1986: `*Louise Bogan: A Portrait`* von Elizabeth Frank
• 1987: `*Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference`* von David J. Garrow
• 1988: `*Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe`* von David Herbert Donald
• 1989: `*Oscar Wilde`* von `F33f`_`[Richard Ellmann`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Richard_Ellmann]`_`f (postum)
>>>1990–1999
• 1990: `*Machiavelli in Hell`* von `F33f`_`[Sebastian de Grazia`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Sebastian_de_Grazia]`_`f
• 1991: `*Jackson Pollock: An American Saga`* von Steven Naifeh und Gregory White Smith
• 1992: `*Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller Jr.`* von `F33f`_`[Lewis B. Puller`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Lewis_Burwell_Puller,_Jr.]`_`f
• 1993: `*Truman`* von `F33f`_`[David McCullough`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=David_McCullough]`_`f
• 1994: `*W. E. B. Dubois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919`* von `F33f`_`[David Levering Lewis`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=David_Levering_Lewis]`_`f
• 1995: `*Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life`* von Joan D. Hedrick
• 1996: `*God: A Biography`* von `F33f`_`[Jack Miles`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Jack_Miles_(Theologe)]`_`f
• 1997: `*Angela's Ashes: A Memoir`* von `F33f`_`[Frank McCourt`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Frank_McCourt]`_`f (dt. `F33f`_`[Die Asche meiner Mutter`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Die_Asche_meiner_Mutter]`_`f)
• 1998: `*Personal History`* von `F33f`_`[Katharine Graham`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Katharine_Graham]`_`f
• 1999: `*Lindbergh`* von A. Scott Berg
>>>2000–2009
• 2000: `*Vera, Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov`* von `F33f`_`[Stacy Schiff`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Stacy_Schiff]`_`f
• 2001: `*W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and The American Century, 1919–1963`* von David Levering Lewis
• 2002: `*John Adams`* von David McCullough
• 2003: `*Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson`* von Robert Caro
• 2004: `*Khrushchev: The Man and His Era`* von `F33f`_`[William Taubman`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=William_Taubman]`_`f
• 2005: `*de Kooning: An American Master`* von Mark Stevens und Annalyn Swan
• 2006: `*American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer`* von Kai Bird und `F33f`_`[Martin J. Sherwin`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Martin_J._Sherwin]`_`f
• 2007: `*The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher`* von `F33f`_`[Debby Applegate`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Debby_Applegate]`_`f
• 2008: `*Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father`* von John Matteson
• 2009: `*American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House`* von Jon Meacham
>>>2010–2019
• 2010: `*The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt`* von `F33f`_`[T. J. Stiles`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=T._J._Stiles]`_`f
• 2011: `*Washington: A Life`* von `F33f`_`[Ron Chernow`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Ron_Chernow]`_`f
• 2012: `*George F. Kennan: An American Life`* von `F33f`_`[John Lewis Gaddis`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=John_Lewis_Gaddis]`_`f
• 2013: `*The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo`* von `F33f`_`[Tom Reiss`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Tom_Reiss]`_`f
• 2014: `*Margaret Fuller: A New American Life`* von Megan Marshall
• 2015: `*The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe`* von `F33f`_`[David I. Kertzer`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=David_I._Kertzer]`_`f
• 2016: `*Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life`* von `F33f`_`[William Finnegan`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=William_Finnegan_(Autor)]`_`f
• 2017: `*The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between`* von `F33f`_`[Hisham Matar`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Hisham_Matar]`_`f
• 2018: `*Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder`* von Caroline Fraser
• 2019: `*The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke`* von Jeffrey C. Stewart
>>>2020–2022
• 2020: `*`F33f`_`[Sontag`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Susan_Sontag]`_`f: Her Life and Work`* von `F33f`_`[Benjamin Moser`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Benjamin_Moser_(Autor)]`_`f
• 2021: `*The Dead Are Arising: The Life of `F33f`_`[Malcolm X`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Malcolm_X]`_`f`* von Les Payne (postum) und Tamara Payne
• 2022: `*Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South`* von Winfred Rembert (1945–2021) as told to Erin I. Kelly
>>Pulitzer-Preis für Biographie
>>>2023–2029
• 2023: `*G-Man: `F33f`_`[J. Edgar Hoover`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=J._Edgar_Hoover]`_`f and the Making of the American Century`* von Beverly Gage
• 2024: `*`F33f`_`[King`:/page/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_de_all_nopic_2026-01.zim|entry_path=Martin_Luther_King]`_`f: A Life`* von Jonathan Eig; `*Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom`* von Ilyon Woo
• 2025: `*Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life`* von Jason Roberts
>>Weblinks
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