The Pulitzer Prize is named for journalist Joseph Pulitzer and is awarded annually to works determined by the Pulitzer Prize Board to be distinguished.

For a complete list of winners go to http://www.pulitzer.org

Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father By Matteson, John 2007/08 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393059649 Check the Library Catalog Winner - 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Biography BookPage Notable Title Matteson looks at the personal life behind the beloved author of Little Women in this story that highlights the tense yet loving bond between Louisa May Alcott and her father, Bronson, and the impact of that relationship on her life and work. ...More

The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher By Applegate, Debby 2006/04 - Doubleday Books 9780385513968 Check the Library Catalog Winner - 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography BookPage Notable Title Applegate brings the fascinating, flawed figure of Henry Ward Beecher to deserved new life and places him at the center of the key dramas of the American 19th century—including the advent of the pulp novel and tabloid press. ...More

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer By Bird, Kai Sherwin, Martin J. 2005/05 - Alfred A. Knopf 0375412026 Check the Library Catalog Winner-2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography A BookPage Notable Title "American Prometheus" is a rich evocation of America in mid-century and a compelling portrait of scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, a man shaped by, or helped to shape, its major events--the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. ...More

de Kooning: An American Master By Stevens, Mark Swan, Annalyn 2004/11 - Alfred A. Knopf 1400041759 Check the Library Catalog Winner-2005 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Ten years in the making, this exhaustively researched biography is a masterful portrait of the abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning, who arrived in New York as a stowaway from Rotterdam in 1926 and underwent a long struggle to become a painter. ...More

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era By Taubman, William 2003/03 - W. W. Norton & Company 0393051447 Check the Library Catalog Winner - 2004 ALA Non-Fiction Notable Selection Winner - 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Brimming with the life and excitement of Nikita Krushchev, a man whose story personified his era, this biography reflects the full range of sources that have become available since the Soviet Union collapsed. of photos. ...More

Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson By Caro, Robert A. 2002/04 - Knopf Publishing Group 0394528360 Check the Library Catalog Winner - 2003 ALA Non-Fiction Notable Selection Winner - 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Winner - 2002 National Book Award for Nonfiction At the heart of this work is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works. Interweaving his narrative with a brilliantly astute and concise history of the Senate, Caro shows readers how political initiatives triumph or fail and how political genius functions. ...More

John Adams By McCullough, David 2001/01 - Simon & Schuster 0684813637 Check the Library Catalog Winner-2002 Pulitzer Prize for Biography In his first book since "Truman", one of America's most distinguished and popular biographers breathes life into history with this compelling look at the second president of the United States, John Adams. More than just a biography, this book looks at the birth of a young republic and explores the extraordinary factors that transformed 13 colonies into a united nation. of illustrations, many in color. ...More

W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 By Lewis, David Levering 2000/10 - Henry Holt & Company 0805025340 Check the Library Catalog Winner - 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Biography "To say that Lewis's is the finest biography of Du Bois ever written hardly does justice to his performance. Until the publication of this superb new book, Du Bois's life had never received the treatment it deserves".--"The Nation". 16-page photo insert. ...More

Vera: Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov By Schiff, Stacy 2000/04 - Modern Library 0375755349 Check the Library Catalog Winner - 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Biography "Vera" is the "utterly romantic" ("New York" magazine) story of the 52-year marriage between Vladimir Nabokov, one the 20th century's most original writers, and a woman with an intellect and devotion to literature equal to her husband's. ...More

Lindbergh By Berg, A. Scott 1999/09 - Berkley Publishing Group 0425170411 Check the Library Catalog Winner - 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Few American icons provoke more enduring fascination than Charles Lindbergh -- renowned for his one-man transatlantic flight in 1927, remembered for the sorrow surrounding the kidnapping and death of his firstborn son in 1932, and reviled by many for his opposition to America's entry into World War II. Lindbergh's is "a dramatic and disturbing American story, " ...More

Personal History By Graham, Katharine 1998/02 - Vintage Books USA 0375701044 Check the Library Catalog Winner - 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography In this critically acclaimed memoir, the woman who piloted the "Washington Post" through the crises of the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, and a pressmen's strike and turned it into a great newspaper now tells her story with courage, candor, and dignity. "Captivating . . . distinguished by a level of introspection that ought to be . . . the touchstone of autobiography".--"Newsday". ...More

Angela's Ashes By McCourt, Frank McCourt 1999/05 - Scribner Book Company 9780684842677 Check the Library Catalog Listen to an excerpt read by and a Conversation with Frank McCourt recounting "a miserable Irish childhood." This account won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. ...More

God: A Biography By Miles, Jack 1996/03 - Vintage Books USA 0679743685 Check the Library Catalog Winner - 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Biography What sort of "person" is God? Is it possible to approach him not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book--as a character who possesses all the depths, contradictions, and abiguities of a Hamlet? In this "brilliant, audacious book" (Chicago Tribune), a former Jesuit marshalls a vast array of learning and knowledge of the Hebrew Bible to illuminate God--and man--with a sense of discovery and wonder. ...More

Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life By Hedrick, Joan D. 1995/04 - Oxford University Press, USA 0195096398 Check the Library Catalog Winner - 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Biography The first biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe in over fifty years tells the absorbing story of this gifted, complex and contradictory woman. Hedrick takes readers into the world of 19th century morals, exploring the influence of then-popular ideas of "true womanhood" on Stowe's upbringing as a member of the outspoken Beecher clan, and her eventful life as a writer and shaper of public opinion. ...More

W.E.B. DuBois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919 By Lewis, David Levering 1994/12 - Topeka Bindery 9780613630863 Check the Library Catalog With the follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning first volume, Lewis has garnered a National Book Award nomination. He picks up his account of Du Bois's life with the triumphal return from WWI of African American veterans to the shattering reality of racism, even as America discovers the New Negro of literature and art. ...More