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Pulitzer Winners: Biographies & Autobiographies
1.
John Adams
by:
David McCullough
4.08 avg rating β 373,239 ratings
2.
Angelaβs Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by:
Frank McCourt
4.15 avg rating β 650,957 ratings
3.
Truman
by:
David McCullough
4.17 avg rating β 90,310 ratings
4.
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
by:
Edmund Morris
4.23 avg rating β 59,126 ratings
5.
Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
by:
Robert A. Caro
4.42 avg rating β 23,636 ratings
6.
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by:
Robert A. Caro
4.52 avg rating β 27,076 ratings
7.
Personal History: A Memoir
by:
Katharine Graham
4.09 avg rating β 24,450 ratings
8.
Peter the Great: His Life and World
by:
Robert K. Massie
4.15 avg rating β 22,818 ratings
9.
Washington: A Life
by:
Ron Chernow
4.16 avg rating β 79,886 ratings
10.
Growing Up
by:
Russell Baker
4.10 avg rating β 7,495 ratings
11.
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by:
Kai Bird
4.31 avg rating β 55,184 ratings
12.
Profiles in Courage
by:
John F. Kennedy
3.92 avg rating β 14,260 ratings
13.
Eleanor and Franklin
by:
Joseph P. Lash
4.26 avg rating β 2,956 ratings
14.
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
by:
John Matteson
4.02 avg rating β 1,831 ratings
15.
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
by:
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
4.16 avg rating β 6,975 ratings
16.
Lindbergh
by:
A. Scott Berg
3.97 avg rating β 5,725 ratings
17.
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
by:
Jon Meacham
3.86 avg rating β 55,953 ratings
18.
Huey Long
by:
T. Harry Williams
4.23 avg rating β 2,111 ratings
19.
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
by:
Gregory White Smith
4.18 avg rating β 1,431 ratings
20.
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
by:
T.J. Stiles
3.90 avg rating β 8,806 ratings
21.
Washington's Crossing
by:
David Hackett Fischer
4.16 avg rating β 15,170 ratings
22.
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe
by:
David I. Kertzer
4.16 avg rating β 3,037 ratings
23.
Oscar Wilde
by:
Richard Ellmann
4.01 avg rating β 5,107 ratings
24.
Benjamin Franklin
by:
Carl van Doren
4.19 avg rating β 409 ratings
25.
God: A Biography
by:
Jack Miles
3.92 avg rating β 2,604 ratings
26.
Memoirs, 1925-1950
by:
George F. Kennan
4.26 avg rating β 300 ratings
26.
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
by:
Tom Reiss
4.02 avg rating β 21,030 ratings
28.
Grant: A Biography
by:
William S. McFeely
4.05 avg rating β 1,804 ratings
29.
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., And The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
by:
David J. Garrow
4.34 avg rating β 2,245 ratings
30.
W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
by:
David Levering Lewis
4.38 avg rating β 2,420 ratings
31.
Machiavelli in Hell: Pulitzer Prize Winner
by:
Sebastian De Grazia
3.77 avg rating β 261 ratings
32.
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963
by:
David Levering Lewis
4.13 avg rating β 559 ratings
32.
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
by:
William Finnegan
4.27 avg rating β 37,923 ratings
34.
Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
by:
George Weigel
4.40 avg rating β 2,891 ratings
35.
Henry James: A Life
by:
Leon Edel
4.28 avg rating β 252 ratings
36.
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
by:
Jeffrey C. Stewart
4.03 avg rating β 310 ratings
37.
De Kooning: An American Master
by:
Mark Stevens
4.13 avg rating β 2,899 ratings
38.
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
by:
David Herbert Donald
4.09 avg rating β 179 ratings
39.
Edith Wharton
by:
R.W.B. Lewis
4.08 avg rating β 445 ratings
40.
Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir
by:
Linnie Marsh Wolfe
4.07 avg rating β 455 ratings
41.
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography
by:
Justin Kaplan
3.99 avg rating β 365 ratings
42.
Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative
by:
Emory Holloway
3.80 avg rating β 10 ratings
43.
Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History
by:
Robert E. Sherwood
4.32 avg rating β 120 ratings
44.
George Washington (Vol 2): Young Washington
by:
Douglas Southall Freeman
4.47 avg rating β 47 ratings
45.
Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet
by:
Lewis B. Puller Jr.
4.15 avg rating β 852 ratings
46.
Gorbachev: His Life and Times
by:
William Taubman
4.27 avg rating β 1,267 ratings
47.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
by:
Joan D. Hedrick
4.03 avg rating β 153 ratings
48.
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
by:
Caroline Fraser
3.94 avg rating β 19,450 ratings
49.
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
by:
H.W. Brands
4.11 avg rating β 22,671 ratings
50.
A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T.E. Lawrence
by:
John E. Mack
4.21 avg rating β 382 ratings
51.
Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov): Portrait of a Marriage
by:
Stacy Schiff
3.86 avg rating β 1,373 ratings
52.
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
by:
William Taubman
4.09 avg rating β 1,669 ratings
52.
The Return
by:
Hisham Matar
4.16 avg rating β 14,617 ratings
54.
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
by:
Les Payne
4.34 avg rating β 4,840 ratings
55.
Sontag: Her Life and Work
by:
Benjamin Moser
4.23 avg rating β 2,158 ratings
56.
Charles Sumner and The Coming of the Civil War
by:
David Herbert Donald
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 235 ratings
56.
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artistβs Memoir of the Jim Crow South
by:
Winfred Rembert
4.57 avg rating β 1,493 ratings
58.
The Raven
by:
Marquis James
4.09 avg rating β 327 ratings
59.
The Taft Story
by:
William S. White
2.83 avg rating β 12 ratings
60.
Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus
by:
Samuel Eliot Morison
4.12 avg rating β 525 ratings
61.
R. E. Lee: A Biography: Volume I
by:
Douglas Southall Freeman
4.56 avg rating β 201 ratings
62.
John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
by:
Paul C. Nagel
3.94 avg rating β 7,856 ratings
63.
The Education of Henry Adams
by:
Henry Adams
3.63 avg rating β 4,868 ratings
63.
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
by:
H.W. Brands
4.01 avg rating β 11,080 ratings
65.
The Making of the President 1960
by:
Theodore H. White
4.15 avg rating β 7,922 ratings
66.
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
by:
Beverly Gage
4.36 avg rating β 4,499 ratings
67.
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
by:
Esther Forbes
4.15 avg rating β 376 ratings
68.
Henry Adams
by:
Ernest Samuels
3.83 avg rating β 18 ratings
68.
John Keats
by:
Walter Jackson Bate
4.21 avg rating β 173 ratings
70.
John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography
by:
Samuel Eliot Morison
4.07 avg rating β 269 ratings
71.
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
by:
Garry Wills
4.16 avg rating β 8,535 ratings
72.
Robert Frost, the Years of Triumph 1915-1938
by:
Lawrance Thompson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 19 ratings
73.
Woodrow Wilson
by:
Arthur Walworth
3.92 avg rating β 25 ratings
74.
The Thought and Character of William James
by:
Ralph Barton Perry
4.06 avg rating β 17 ratings
75.
The Autobiography of William Allen White
by:
William Allen White
3.92 avg rating β 39 ratings
75.
Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters
by:
Ray Stannard Baker
3.43 avg rating β 7 ratings
77.
George Bancroft, Brahmin Rebel
by:
Russel B. Nye
3.12 avg rating β 8 ratings
78.
Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
by:
Robert Forrest Wilson
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 5 ratings
78.
The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas
by:
Charles Edward Russell
3.29 avg rating β 7 ratings
80.
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
by:
Debby Applegate
3.96 avg rating β 1,039 ratings
80.
The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918
by:
Paul Klee
4.10 avg rating β 359 ratings
80.
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
by:
Megan Marshall
3.88 avg rating β 1,398 ratings
80.
Love, Africa: A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival
by:
Jeffrey Gettleman
4.04 avg rating β 2,136 ratings
80.
The Life of John Marshall: Volume III & IV: The Chief Justice & The Making of the Supreme Court
by:
Albert J. Beveridge
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
85.
O'Neill: Son and Artist
by:
Louis Sheaffer
4.25 avg rating β 32 ratings
85.
The Life of John Marshall: Volume I & II: The Chief Justice & The Making of the Supreme Court
by:
Albert J. Beveridge
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
87.
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
by:
Simon Sebag Montefiore
4.14 avg rating β 12,631 ratings
87.
Pinckney's Treaty
by:
Samuel Flagg Bemis
3.57 avg rating β 14 ratings
89.
The Life & Letters of Walter H. Page: Journalist, Publisher, Diplomat, and Editor of The Atlantic
by:
Burton J. Hendrick
3.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
90.
Murder in the Haunted Chamber (Sarah Kennecott and Jack Harden Mystery #2)
by:
Bill LeFurgy
4.46 avg rating β 168 ratings
90.
From Immigrant to Inventor: The Life Of Michael Pupin: X-Rays, NASA, and Serbian Nationalism
by:
Michael Pupin
4.42 avg rating β 493 ratings
92.
Grant
by:
Jean Edward Smith
4.03 avg rating β 12,933 ratings
92.
Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed: A Biographical and Critical Study (Complete Edition: Vol. 1&2)
by:
William Cabell Bruce
4.33 avg rating β 9 ratings
92.
King: A Life
by:
Jonathan Eig
4.65 avg rating β 11,032 ratings
95.
The Victory at Sea: By the Commander of the Naval Forces Operating in European Waters During World War I
by:
William Sowden Sims
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
96.
Walt Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative: A Biography & Critical Analysis
by:
Emory Holloway Jr.
3.62 avg rating β 8 ratings
97.
With Americans of Past and Present Days: The 1917 History winner in the Pulitzer Prize list.
by:
Jean Jules Jusserand
3.21 avg rating β 34 ratings
98.
Barrett Wendell and His Letters:
by:
Marc Antony Dewolfe Howe
4.60 avg rating β 5 ratings
99.
Louise Bogan: A Portrait
by:
Elizabeth Frank
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 12 ratings
100.
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
by:
Kenneth Silverman
3.99 avg rating β 112 ratings
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