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Award winners received $15,000 USD. [1] From 1917 to 2022, this prize was known as the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and was awarded to a distinguished biography, autobiography or memoir [2] by an American author or co-authors, published during the preceding calendar year.
Contact. Prize Winners. Pulitzer Stories. News. How to Enter. Pulitzer On The Road. Prize Winners by YearPrize Winners by CategoryExplore Lists. Biography. For a distinguished and appropriately documented biography by an American author, Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000).
- 1993 (Truman, by David McCullough) This spellbinding tour-de-force weaves together the life of the thirty-third President and the great events of the modern era.
- 1995 (Harriet Beecher Stowe – A Life, by Joan D. Hedrick) For most American readers, Harriet Beecher Stowe is the author who created characters and scenes indelibly stamped into our national vocabulary and literary consciousness: Simon Legree and Uncle Tom, Eliza crossing the ice floes, Little Eva ascending to heaven.
- 1997 (Angela’s Ashes, by Frank McCourt) When Frank McCourt was four years old, his parents, born in Ireland, residents of depression-desperate Brooklyn, returned to Ireland, to Limerick, along with his three brothers.
- 1998 (Personal History, by Katharine Graham) Katharine Graham’s creative, formidable mother, Agnes Meyer, was so self-absorbed that she showed lifelong disinterest toward any of her daughter’s concerns.
Memoir or Autobiography. For a distinguished and factual memoir or autobiography by an American author, Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000).
May 21, 2024 · Pulitzer Prize, any of a series of annual prizes awarded by Columbia University, New York City, for outstanding public service and achievement in American journalism, letters, and music. The prizes are highly esteemed and have been awarded each May since 1917.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 6, 2024 · May 6, 2024. Eighteen books were recognized as winners or finalists for the Pulitzer Prize on Monday, in the categories of history, memoir, poetry, general nonfiction, fiction and biography,...
Pulitzer Prize, 104 Books The Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author. Added about 10 years ago.
