Pulitzer Prize - Biography
2008 - Eden's Outcasts, John Matteson
2007 - The Most Famous Man in America, Debby Applegate
2006 - American Prometheus, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
2005 - de Kooning: An American Master, Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
2004 - Khrushchev, William Taubman
2003 - Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro
2002 - John Adams, David McCullough
2001 - W.E.B. Du Bois: 1919-1963, David Levering Lewis
2000 - Vera, Stacy Schiff
1999 - Lindbergh, A. Scott Berg
1998 - Personal History, Katharine Graham
1997 - Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
1996 - God: A Biography, Jack Miles
1995 - Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life, Joan D. Hedrick
1994 - W.E.B. Du Bois: 1868-1919, David Levering Lewis
1993 - Truman, David McCullough
1992 - Fortunate Son, Lewis B. Puller Jr.
1991 - Jackson Pollock, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
1990 - Machiavelli in Hell, Sebastian de Grazia
1989 - Oscar Wilde, Richard Ellmann
1988 - Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe, David Herbert Donald
1987 - Bearing the Cross, David J. Garrow
1986 - Louise Bogan: A Portrait, Elizabeth Frank
1985 - The Life and Times of Cotton Mather, Kenneth Silverman
1984 - Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915, Louis R. Harlan
1983 - Growing Up, Russell Baker
1982 - Grant: A Biography, William S. McFeely
1981 - Peter the Great: His Life and World, Robert K. Massie
1980 - The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris
1979 - Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews, Leonard Baker
1978 - Samuel Johnson, Walter Jackson Bate
1977 - A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T.E. Lawrence, John E. Mack
1976 - Edith Wharton: A Biography, R.W.B. Lewis
1975 - The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Robert Caro
1974 - O'Neill, Son and Artist, Louis Sheaffer
1973 - Luce and His Empire, W.A. Swanberg
1972 - Eleanor and Franklin, Joseph P. Lash
1971 - Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915-1938, Lawrence Thompson
1970 - Huey Long, T. Harry Williams
1969 - The Man From New York, Benjamin Lawrence Reid
1968 - Memoirs, George F. Kennan
1967 - Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, Justin Kaplan
1966 - A Thousand Days, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
1965 - Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels
1964 - John Keats, Walter Jackson Bate
1963 - Henry James, Leon Edel
1962 - No Award
1961 - Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, David Donald
1960 - John Paul Jones, Samuel Eliot Morison
1959 - Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet, Arthur Walworth
1958 - George Washington, Douglas S. Freeman
1957 - Profiles in Courage, John F. Kennedy
1956 - Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Talbot Faulkner Hamlin
1955 - The Taft Story, William S. White
1954 - The Spirit of St. Louis, Charles A. Lindbergh
1953 - Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803, David J. Mays
1952 - Charles Evans Hughes, Merlo J. Pusey
1951 - John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, Margaret Louise Coit
1950 - John Quincy Adams, Samuel Flagg Bemis
1949 - Roosevelt and Hopkins, Robert E. Sherwood
1948 - Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow, Margaret Clapp
1947 - The Autobiography of William Allen White, William Allen White
1946 - Son of the Wilderness, Linnie Marsh Wolfe
1945 - George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel, Russell Blaine Nye
1944 - The American Leonardo: the Life of Samuel F.B. Morse, Carlton Mabee
1943 - Admiral of the Ocean Sea, Samuel Eliot Morison
1942 - Crusader in Crinoline, Forrest Wilson
1941 - Jonathan Edwards, Ola Elizabeth Winslow
1940 - Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters, Ray Stannard Baker
1939 - Benjamin Franklin, Carl Van Doren
1938 - Andrew Jackson, Marquis James
1938 - Pedlar's Progress, Odell Shepard
1937 - Hamilton Fish, Allan Nevins
1936 - The Thought and Character of William James, Ralph Barton Perry
1935 - R.E. Lee, Douglas S. Freeman
1934 - John Hay, Tyler Dennett
1933 - Grover Cleveland, Allan Nevins
1932 - Theodore Roosevelt, Henry F. Pringle
1931 - Charles W. Eliot, Henry James
1930 - The Raven, Marquis James
1929 - The Training of an American, Burton J. Hendrick
1928 - The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas, Charles Edward Russell
1927 - Whitman, Emory Holloway
1926 - The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 volumes, Harvey Cushing
1925 - Barrett Wendell and His Letters, M.A. DeWolfe Howe
1924 - From Immigrant to Inventor, Michael Idvorsky Pupin
1923 - The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Burton J. Hendrick
1922 - A Daughter of the Middle Border, Hamlin Garland
1921 - The Americanization of Edward Bok, Edward Bok
1920 - The Life of John Marshall, 4 volumes, Albert J. Beveridge
1919 - The Education of Henry Adams, Henry Adams
1918 - Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, William Cabell Bruce
1917 - Julia Ward Howe, Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott
