Pulitzer Prize Winners Biography Or Autobiography Year Winner 1917
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A Monthly Newsletter of Ibadan Book Club – December Edition www.ibadanbookclub.webs.com, www.ibadanbookclub.wordpress.com E-mail:[email protected], [email protected] Pulitzer Prize Winners Biography or Autobiography Year Winner 1917 Julia Ward Howe, Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott assisted by Florence Howe Hall 1918 Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, William Cabell Bruce 1919 The Education of Henry Adams, Henry Adams 1920 The Life of John Marshall, Albert J. Beveridge 1921 The Americanization of Edward Bok, Edward Bok 1922 A Daughter of the Middle Border, Hamlin Garland 1923 The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Burton J. Hendrick 1924 From Immigrant to Inventor, Michael Idvorsky Pupin 1925 Barrett Wendell and His Letters, M.A. DeWolfe Howe 1926 The Life of Sir William Osler, Harvey Cushing 1927 Whitman, Emory Holloway 1928 The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas, Charles Edward Russell 1929 The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Burton J. Hendrick 1930 The Raven, Marquis James 1931 Charles W. Eliot, Henry James 1932 Theodore Roosevelt, Henry F. Pringle 1933 Grover Cleveland, Allan Nevins 1934 John Hay, Tyler Dennett 1935 R.E. Lee, Douglas S. Freeman 1936 The Thought and Character of William James, Ralph Barton Perry 1937 Hamilton Fish, Allan Nevins 1938 Pedlar's Progress, Odell Shepard, Andrew Jackson, Marquis James 1939 Benjamin Franklin, Carl Van Doren 1940 Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters, Vol. VII and VIII, Ray Stannard Baker 1941 Jonathan Edwards, Ola Elizabeth Winslow 1942 Crusader in Crinoline, Forrest Wilson 1943 Admiral of the Ocean Sea, Samuel Eliot Morison 1944 The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F.B. Morse, Carlton Mabee 1945 George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel, Russell Blaine Nye 1946 Son of the Wilderness, Linnie Marsh Wolfe 1947 The Autobiography of William Allen White 1948 Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow, Margaret Clapp 1949 Roosevelt and Hopkins, Robert E. Sherwood 1950 John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy, Samuel Flagg Bemis 1951 John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, Margaret Louis Coit 1952 Charles Evans Hughes, Merlo J. Pusey 1953 Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803, David J. Mays 1954 The Spirit of St. Louis, Charles A. Lindbergh 1955 The Taft Story, William S. White 1956 Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Talbot F. Hamlin 1957 Profiles in Courage, John F. Kennedy 1958 George Washington, Douglas S. Freeman (Vol. 1-6) and John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth (Vol. 7) 1959 Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet, Arthur Walworth 1960 John Paul Jones, Samuel Eliot Morison 1961 Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, David Donald 1962 No award given 1963 Henry James: Vol. II, The Conquest of London, and Vol. III, The Middle Years, Leon Edel 1964 John Keats, Walter Jackson Bate 1965 Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels 1966 A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. 1967 Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, Justin Kaplan 1968 Memoirs (1925-1950), George F. Kennan 1969 The Man from New York: John Quinn and His Friends, Benjamin Lawrence Reid 1970 Huey Long, T. Harry Williams 1971 Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915-1938, Lawrence R. Thompson 1972 Eleanor and Franklin, Joseph P. Lash 1973 Luce and His Empire, W.A. Swanberg 1974 O'Neill, Son and Artist, Louis Sheaffer 1975 The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Robert A. Caro 1976 Edith Wharton, R.W.B. Lewis 1977 A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T.E. Lawrence, John E. Mack 1978 Samuel Johnson, Walter Jackson Bate 1979 Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews, Leonard Baker 1980 The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris 1981 Peter the Great: His Life and World, Robert K. Massie 1982 Grant: A Biography, William S. McFeely 1983 Growing Up, Russell Baker 1984 Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan 1985 The Life and Times of Cotton Mather, Kenneth Silverman 1986 Louise Bogan: A Portrait, Elizabeth Frank 1987 Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, David J. Garrow 1988 Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe, David Herbert Donald 1989 Oscar Wilde, Richard Ellmann 1990 Machiavelli in Hell, Sebastian de Grazia 1991 Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith 1992 Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet, Lewis B. Puller, Jr. 1993 Truman, David McCullough 1994 W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919, David Levering Lewis 1995 Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life, Joan D. Hedrick 1996 God: A Biography, Jack Miles 1997 Angela's Ashes: A Memoir, Frank McCourt 1998 Personal History, Katharine Graham 1999 Lindbergh, A. Scott Berg 2000 Vera (Mrs. Vladamir Nabakov), Stacy Schiff 2001 W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963, David Levering Lewis 2002 John Adams, David McCullough 2003 Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro 2004 Krushchev: The Man and His Era, William Taubman 2005 de Kooning: An American Master, Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan 2006 American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin 2007 The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, Debby Applegate 2008 Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father, John Matteson Source: Columbia University. Commentary Year Winner 1970 Marquis Childs (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) 1971 William A. Caldwell (Record, [Hackensack, N.J.]) 1972 Mike Royko (Chicago Daily News) 1973 David S. Broder (Washington Post) 1974 Edwin A. Roberts, Jr. (National Observer) 1975 Mary McGrory (Washington Star) 1976 Walter (Red) Smith (New York Times) 1977 George F. Will (Washington Post Writers Group) 1978 William Safire (New York Times) 1979 Russell Baker (New York Times) 1980 Ellen Goodman (Boston Globe) 1981 Dave Anderson (New York Times) 1982 Art Buchwald (Los Angeles Times Syndicate) 1983 Claude Sitton (Raleigh [N.C.] News & Observer) 1984 Vermont Royster (Wall Street Journal) 1985 Murray Kempton (Newsday, Long Island, N.Y.) 1986 Jimmy Breslin (New York Daily News) 1987 Charles Krauthammer (Washington Post Writers Group) 1988 Dave Barry (Miami Herald) 1989 Clarence Page (Chicago Tribune) 1990 Jim Murray (Los Angeles Times) 1991 Jim Hoagland (Washington Post) 1992 Anna Quindlen (New York Times) 1993 Liz Balmaseda (Miami Herald) 1994 William Raspberry (Washington Post) 1995 Jim Dwyer (Newsday, Long Island, N.Y.) 1996 E.R. Shipp (New York Daily News) 1997 Eileen McNamara (Boston Globe) 1998 Mike McAlary (New York Daily News) 1999 Maureen Dowd (New York Times) 2000 Paul A. Gigot (Wall Street Journal) 2001 Dorothy Rabinowitz (Wall Street Journal) 2002 Thomas Friedman (New York Times) 2003 Colbert I. King (Washington Post) 2004 Leonard Pitts, Jr. (Miami Herald) 2005 Connie Schultz (Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio) 2006 Nicholas D. Kristof (New York Times) 2007 Cynthia Tucker (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) 2008 Steven Pearlstein (Washington Post) Source: Columbia University. Criticism Year Winner 1970 Ada Louise Huxtable (New York Times) 1971 Harold C. Schonberg (New York Times) 1972 Frank Peters, Jr. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) 1973 Ronald Powers (Chicago Sun-Times) 1974 Emily Genauer (Newsday Syndicate, Garden City, N.Y.) 1975 Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times) 1976 Alan M. Kriegsman (Washington Post) 1977 William McPherson (Washington Post) 1978 Walter Kerr (New York Times) 1979 Paul Gapp (Chicago Tribune) 1980 William A. Henry III (Boston Globe) 1981 Jonathan Yardley (Washington Star) 1982 Martin Bernheimer (Los Angeles Times) 1983 Manuela Hoelterhoff (Wall Street Journal) 1984 Paul Goldberger (New York Times) 1985 Howard Rosenberg (Los Angeles Times) 1986 Donal Henahan (New York Times) 1987 Richard Eder (Los Angeles Times) 1988 Tom Shales (Washington Post) 1989 Michael Skube (Raleigh [N.C.] News & Observer) 1990 Allan Temko (San Francisco Chronicle) 1991 David Shaw (Los Angeles Times) 1992 No award given 1993 Michael Dirda (Washington Post) 1994 Lloyd Schwartz (The Boston Phoenix) 1995 Margo Jefferson (New York Times) 1996 Robert Campbell (Boston Globe) 1997 Tim Page (Washington Post) 1998 Michiko Kakutani (New York Times) 1999 Blair Kamin (Chicago Tribune) 2000 Henry Allen (Washington Post) 2001 Gail Caldwell (The Boston Globe) 2002 Justin Davidson (Newsday, Long Island, N.Y.) 2003 Stephen Hunter (Washington Post) 2004 Dan Neil (Los Angeles Times) 2005 Joe Morgenstern (Wall Street Journal) 2006 Robin Givhan (Washington Post) 2007 Jonathan Gold (LA Weekly) 2008 Mark Feeney (Boston Globe) Source: Columbia University. Drama Year Winner 1918 Why Marry? Jesse Lynch Williams 1919 No award given 1920 Beyond the Horizon, Eugene O'Neill 1921 Miss Lulu Bett, Zona Gale 1922 Anna Christie, Eugene O'Neill 1923 Icebound, Owen Davis 1924 Hell-Bent for Heaven, Hatcher Hughes 1925 They Knew What They Wanted, Sidney Howard 1926 Craig's Wife, George Kelly 1927 In Abraham's Bosom, Paul Green 1928 Strange Interlude, Eugene O'Neill 1929 Street Scene, Elmer L. Rice 1930 The Green Pastures, Marc Connelly 1931 Alison's House, Susan Glaspell 1932 Of Thee I Sing, George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, and Ira Gershwin 1933 Both Your Houses, Maxwell Anderson 1934 Men in White, Sidney Kingsley 1935 The Old Maid, Zoe Akins 1936 Idiot's Delight, Robert E. Sherwood 1937 You Can't Take It With You, Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman 1938 Our Town, Thornton Wilder 1939 Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Robert E. Sherwood 1940 The Time of Your Life, William Saroyan (award declined) 1941 There Shall Be No Night, Robert