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Pulitzer Prize Winners

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.