Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Pulitzer Prize for Biography Public
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The New Negro by Jeffrey C. Stewart
A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of …
Phil in SF says: 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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The definitive portrait of one of the American Century's most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public …
Phil in SF says: 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne, Tamara Payne
An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author’s interviews, rewriting much of …
Phil in SF says: 2021 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Chasing Me to My Grave by Winfred Rembert, Erin I. Kelly
Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager. …
Phil in SF says: 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage
A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a …
Phil in SF says: 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo
In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the …
Phil in SF says: 2024 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil …
Phil in SF says: 2024 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
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Every Living Thing by Jason Roberts
In the eighteenth century, two men—exact contemporaries and polar opposites—dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing …
Phil in SF says: 2025 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
