The Pulitzer Prize, started by New York World publisher Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), is awarded each year for books published the previous year. During some years no award was given.

2010 – The first tycoon : the epic life of Cornelius Vanderbilt , by T.J. Stiles

2009 – American lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House, by Jon Meacham

2008 – Eden’s outcasts : the story of Louisa May Alcott and her father , by John Matteson

2007 – The most famous man in America : the biography of Henry Ward Beecher , by Debbie Applegate

2006 – American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer , by Kai Bird

2005 – de Kooning : an American master , by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan

2004 – Khrushchev : the man and his era , by William Taubman

2003 – Master of the Senate, by Robert A. Caro

2002 – John Adams, by David McCullough

2001 – W.E.B. Du Bois : the fight for equality and the American century, 1919-1963, by David Levering Lewis

2000 – Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), by Stacy Schiff

1999 – Lindbergh, by A. Scott Berg

1998 – Personal history, by Katharine Graham

1997 – Angela’s ashes : a memoir, by Frank McCourt

1996 – God : a biography, by Jack Miles

1995 – Harriet Beecher Stowe : a life, by Joan D. Hedrick

1994 – W. E. B. DuBois : biography of a race, 1868-1919, by David L. Lewis

1993 – Truman, by David McCullough

1992 – Fortunate son : the autobiography of Lewis B. Puller, Jr., by Lewis B. Puller, Jr.

1991 – Jackson Pollock : an American saga, by Stephen Naifeh and Gregory White Smith

1990 – Machiavelli in Hell, by Sebastian de Grazia

1989 – Oscar Wilde, by Richard Ellman

1988 – Look homeward : a life of Thomas Wolfe, by David Herbert Donald

1987 – Bearing the cross : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, by David J. Garrow

1986 – Louise Bogan : a portrait, by Elizabeth Frank

1985 – Life and times of Cotton Mather, by Kenneth Silverman

1984 – Booker T. Washington, by Louis R. Harlan

1983 – Growing up, by Russell Baker

1982 – Grant : a biography, by William S. McFeely

1981 – Peter the Great : his life and world, by Robert K. Massie

1980 – The rise of Theodore Roosevelt, by Edmund Morris

1979 – Days of sorrow and pain : Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews, by Leonard Baker

1978 – Samuel Johnson, by Walter Jackson Bate

1977 – A prince of our disorder : the life of T. E. Lawrence, by John E. Mack

1976 – Edith Wharton : a biography, by R. W. B. Lewis

1975 – The power broker : Robert Moses and the fall of New York, by Robert A. Caro

1974 – O’Neill, son and artist, by Louis Sheaffer

1973 – Luce and his empire, by W. A. Swanberg

1972 – Eleanor and Franklin, by Joseph P. Lash

1971 – Robert Frost : the years of triumph, 1915-1938, by Lawrence Thompson

1970 – Huey Long, by T. Harry Williams

1969 – The man from New York : John Quinn and his friends, by B. L. Reid

1968 – Memoirs (1925-1950), by George F. Kennan

1967 – Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, by Justin Kaplan

1966 – A thousand days : John F. Kennedy in the White House, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

1965 – Henry Adams, by Ernest Samuels

1964 – John Keats, by Walter Jackson Bate

1963 – Henry James, volumes II and III, by Leon Edel

1962 – No award

1961 – Charles Sumner and the coming of the Civil War, by David Donald

1960 – John Paul Jones, by Samuel Eliot Morison

1959 – Woodrow Wilson : American prophet, by Arthur Walworth

1958 – George Washington, by Douglas Southall Freeman (volumes I-VI) and John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth (volume VII)

1957 – Profiles in courage, by John F. Kennedy

1956 – Benjamin Henry Latrobe, by Talbot F. Hamlin

1955 – The Taft story, by William S. White

1954 – The Spirit of St. Louis, by Charles A. Lindbergh

1953 – Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803, by David J. Mays

1952 – Charles Evans Hughes, by Merlo J. Pusey

1951 – John C. Calhoun : American portrait, by Margaret Louise Coit

1950 – John Quincy Adams and the foundations of American foreign policy, by Samuel Flagg Bemis

1949 – Roosevelt and Hopkins, an intimate history, by Robert E. Sherwood

1948 – Forgotten first citizen : John Bigelow, by Margaret Clapp

1947 – Autobiography of William Allen White, by William Allen White

1946 – Son of the wilderness : the life of John Muir, by Linny Marsh Wolfe

1945 – George Bancroft : Brahmin rebel, by Russell Blaine Nye

1944 – The American Leonardo : the life of Samuel F. B. Morse, by Carleton Mabee

1943 – Admiral of the ocean sea : a life of Christopher Columbus, by Samuel Eliot Morison

1942 – Crusader in crinoline, the life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, by Forrest Wilson

1941 – Jonathan Edwards, by Ola Elizabeth Winslow

1940 – Woodrow Wilson, life and letters, by Ray Stannard Baker

1939 – Benjamin Franklin, by Carl Van Doren

1938 – Pedlar’s progress : the life of Bronson Alcott, by Odell Shepard
and Andrew Jackson, by Marquis James

1937 – Hamilton Fish : the inner history of the Grant administration, by Allan Nevins

1936 – The thought and character of William James, by Ralph Barton Perry

1935 – R. E. Lee : a biography, by Douglas Southall Freeman

1934 – John Hay : from poetry to politics, by Tyler Dennett

1933 – Grover Cleveland : a study in courage, by Allan Nevins

1932 – Theodore Roosevelt, by Henry F. Pringle

1931 – Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard University, 1869-1909, by Henry James

1930 – The raven : a biography of Sam Houston, by Marquis James

1929 – The training of an American : the earlier life and letters of Walter H. Page, by Burton J. Hendrick

1928 – The American orchestra and Theodore Thomas, by Charles Edward Russell

1927 – Whitman : an interpretation in narrative, by Emory Holloway

1926 – The life of Sir William Osler, by Harvey Cushing

1925 – Barrett Wendell and his letters, by M. A. DeWolfe Howe

1924 – From immigrant to inventor, by Michael Pupin

1923 – The life and letters of Walter H. Page, by Burton J. Hendrick

1922 – A daughter of the middle border, by Hamlin Garland

1921 – The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after, by Edward Bok

1920 – The life of John Marshall, by Albert J. Beveridge

1919 – The education of Henry Adams, by Henry Adams

1918 – Benjamin Franklin, self-revealed, by William Cabell Bruce

1917 – Julia Ward Howe, by Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall

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