Pulitzer Prize: Biography or Autobiography

• 2008 Eden's Outcasts John Matteson (W.W. Norton)
• 2007 The Most Famous Man in America Debby Applegate
• 2006 American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
• 2005 de Kooning: An American Master Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
• 2004 Khrushchev: The Man and His Era William Taubman
• 2003 Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson vol. 3 Robert A. Caro
• 2002 John Adams David McCullough
• 2001 W E B DuBois (volume 2) 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 No ordinary time Doris Kearns Goodwin
• 1994 W. E. B. DuBois D. Lewis
• 1993 Truman David McCullough
• 1992 Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam vet Lewis B. Puller Jr.
• 1991 Jackson Pollock: An American saga Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
• 1990 Machiavelli in hell Sebastian Grazia
• 1989 Oscar Wilde Richard Ellmann
• 1988 Look homeward: A life of Thomas Wolfe David Herbert Donald
• 1987 Bearing the cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference 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: John Quinn and his friends Benjamin Lawrence Reid
• 1968 Memoirs George F. Kennan
• 1967 Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain Justin Kaplan
• 1966 A Thousand days: J F Kennedy in the White House Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
• 1965 Henry Adams (three volumes) 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 Volumes I-VI Douglas S. Freeman and Volume VII written John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth after Dr. Freeman’s death
• 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 and the foundations of American foreign policy 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: a life of Christopher Columbus Samuel Eliot Morison
• 1942 Crusader in crinoline: a life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Forrest Wilson
• 1941 Jonathan Edwards Ola Elizabeth Winslow
• 1940 Woodrow Wilson, life and letters Volumes VII and VIII Ray Stannard Baker
• 1939 Benjamin Franklin Carl Van Doren
• 1938 Andrew Jackson (2 volumes) Marquis James; 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: The Earlier life and letters of Walter H. Page 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 letter 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, assisted by Florence Howe Hall