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The Pulitzer Prizes are named for Joseph Pulitzer the nineteenth century publisher of the New York World and the St. Louis Post Dispatch. His 1904 will made provision for the establishment of the Pulitzer Prizes as an incentive to excellence. He specified four awards in journalism, four in letters and drama, one in education, and four travelling scholarships. Today 21 prizes are made. The following awards for Biography/Autobiography began in 1917.
| 2004 | William Taubman | Khrushchev: The Man and His Era |
| 2003 | Robert Caro | Master of the Senate |
| 2002 | David McCullough | John Adams |
| 2001 | David Levering Lewis | W.E.B. DuBois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 |
| 2000 | Stacy Schiff | Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) |
| 1999 | A. Scott Berg | Lindberg |
| 1998 | Katherine Graham | Personal History |
| 1997 | Frank McCourt | Angela's Ashes |
| 1996 | Jack Miles | God: A Biography |
| 1995 | Joan D. Hedrick | Harriet Beacher Stowe |
| 1994 | David Levering Lewis | W.E.B. DuBois |
| 1993 | David McCullough | Truman |
| 1992 | Lewis B. Puller Jr. | Fortunate Son |
| 1991 | Steven Naifeh and
Gregory White Smith |
Jackson Pollock |
| 1990 | Sebastien de Grazia | Machiavelli in Hell |
| 1989 | Richard Ellman | Oscar Wilde |
| 1988 | David Herbert Donald | Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe |
| 1987 | David J. Garrow | Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther king Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
| 1986 | Elizabeth Frank | Louise Bogan: A Portrait |
| 1985 | Kenneth Silverman | The Life and Times of Cotton Mather |
| 1984 | Louis R. Harlan | Booker T. Washington |
| 1983 | Russell Baker | Growing Up |
| 1982 | William S. McFeely | Grant: A Biography |
| 1981 | Robert K. Massie | Peter the Great |
| 1980 | Edmund Morris | The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt |
| 1979 | Leonard Baker | Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews |
| 1978 | Walter Jackson Bate | Samuel Johnson |
| 1977 | John E. Mack | A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T.E. Lawrence |
| 1976 | R.W.B. Lewis | Edith Wharton: A Biography |
| 1975 | Robert A. Caro | The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York |
| 1974 | Louis Scheaffer | O'Neill, Son and Artist |
| 1973 | W.A. Swanberg | Luce and his Empire |
| 1972 | Joseph P. Lash | Eleanor and Franklin |
| 1971 | Lawrence Thompson | Robert Frost |
| 1970 | T. Harry Williams | Huey Long |
| 1969 | Benjamin Lawrence Reid | The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends |
| 1968 | George F. Kennan | Memoirs |
| 1967 | Justin Kaplan | Mr. Clemmens and Mark Twain |
| 1966 | Arthur M. Schlesinger | A Thousand Days |
| 1965 | Ernest Samuels | Henry Adams |
| 1964 | Walter Jackson Bate | John Keats |
| 1963 | Leon Edel | Henry Adams |
| 1962 | No Award | |
| 1961 | David Donald | Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War |
| 1960 | Samuel Eliot Morison | John Paul Jones |
| 1959 | Arthur Walworth | Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet |
| 1958 | Douglas Southall Freeman
John Alexander Carroll Mary Wells Ashworth |
George Washington, vols. 1-4; and vol 7 |
| 1957 | John F. Kennedy | Profiles in Courage |
| 1956 | Talbot Faulkner Hamlin | Benjamin Henry Latrobe |
| 1955 | William S. White | The Taft Story |
| 1954 | Charles A. Lindberg | The Spirit of St. Louis |
| 1953 | David J. Mays | Edmund Pendelton, 1721-1803 |
| 1952 | Merlo J. Pusey | Charles Evans Hughes |
| 1951 | Margaret Louise Coit | John C. Calhoun |
| 1950 | Samuel Flagg Bemis | John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy |
| 1949 | Robert E. Sherwood | Roosevelt and Hopkins |
| 1948 | Margaret Clapp | Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow |
| 1947 | William Allen White | The Autobiography of William Allen White |
| 1946 | Linnie Marsh Wolfe | Son of the Wilderness |
| 1945 | Russell Blaine Nye | George Bancroft |
| 1944 | Carleton Mabee | The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F.B. Morse |
| 1943 | Samuel Eliot Morison | Admiral of the Ocean Sea |
| 1942 | Forrest Wilson | Crusader in Crinoline |
| 1941 | Ola Elizabeth Winslow | Jonathan Edwards |
| 1940 | Ray Stannard Baker | Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters, vols. 7 & 8 |
| 1939 | Carl Van Doren | Benjamin Franklin |
| 1938 | Odell Shepard | Pedlar's Progress |
| 1938 | Marquis James | Andrew Jackson |
| 1937 | Allen Nevins | Hamilton Fish |
| 1936 | Ralph Barton Perry | The Thought and Character of William James |
| 1935 | Douglas S. Freeman | R.E. Lee |
| 1934 | Tyler Dennett | John Hay |
| 1933 | Allan Nevins | Grover Cleveland |
| 1932 | Henry F. Pringle | Theodore Roosevelt |
| 1931 | Henry James | Charles W. Eliot |
| 1930 | Marquis James | The Raven |
| 1929 | Burton J. Hendrick | The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page |
| 1928 | Charles Edward Russell | The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas |
| 1927 | Emory Holloway | Whitman |
| 1926 | Harvey Cushing | The Life of Sir William Osler |
| 1925 | M.A. DeWolfe Howe | Barrett Wendell and His Letter |
| 1924 | Michael Idvorsky Pupin | From Immigrant to Inventor |
| 1923 | Burton J. Hendrick | The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page |
| 1922 | Hamlin Garland | A Daughter of the Middle Border |
| 1921 | Edward Bok | The Americanization of Edward Bok |
| 1920 | Albert J. Beveridge | The Life of John Marshall |
| 1919 | Henry Adams | The Education of Henry Adams |
| 1918 | Willaim Cabell Bruce | Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed |
| 1917 | Laura E. Richards
Maude Howe Elliott Florence Howe Hall |
Julia Ward Howe |
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