Pulitzer Prize for HistoryFinalistBiography or Autobiography

Given by Columbia University in the City of New York

Otros Nombres: Pulitzer Preis (Alemán)
74 Obras 57,262 Libros 1,034 Reseñas ½ 3.9
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by Hungarian-American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and mostrar más is administered by Columbia University in New York City. According to the administrators of the Pulitzer Prize the correct pronunciation of the name should sound like the verb pull, as in "Pull it, sir".

Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of these, each winner receives a certificate and a US$10,000 cash award. The winner in the public service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold medal, which always goes to a newspaper, although an individual may be named in the citation mostrar menos
Stages:
Todos, Winner (635), Finalist (571), Nominee (8)
Categorias:
Todos, Biography or Autobiography (74)
Years:
Todos, 2014 (2), 2013 (2), 2012 (2), 2011 (2), 2010 (2), 2009 (2), 2008 (2), 2007 (2), 2006 (2), 2005 (2), 2004 (2), 2003 (2), 2002 (2), 2001 (2), 2000 (2), 1999 (2), 1998 (2), 1997 (2), 1996 (2), 1995 (2), 1994 (2), 1993 (2), 1992 (2), 1991 (2), 1990 (3), 1989 (3), 1988 (2), 1987 (3), 1986 (2), 1985 (2), 1984 (2), 1983 (2), 1982 (2), 1981 (2), 1980 (3)
Announced:
mayo 6: Ganador2024 Reciente

Finalist 74

ObraAño
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World por Leo Damrosch2014
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life por Jonathan Sperber2014
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece por Michael Gorra2013
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy por David Nasaw2013
Amor y capital : Karl y Jenny Marx y el nacimiento de una revolución por Mary Gabriel2012
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention por Manning Marable2012
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century por Alan Brinkley2011
Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon por Michael O'Brien2011
Cheever: A Life por Blake Bailey2010
Woodrow Wilson: A Biography por John Milton Cooper Jr.2010
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt por H. W. Brands2009
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century por Steve Coll2009
The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein por Martin Duberman2008
The Life of Kingsley Amis por Zachary Leader2008
John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty por Arthur Cash2007
Andrew Carnegie por David Nasaw2007
El año del pensamiento mágico por Joan Didion2006
The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism por Megan Marshall2006
El espejo de un hombre: Vida, obra y época de William Shakespeare por Stephen Greenblatt2005
Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America por William Souder2005
Isaac Newton : la mente que cambió la historia de la ciencia por James Gleick2004
Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work por Hayden Herrera2004
The Fly Swatter: How My Grandfather Made His Way in the World por Nicholas Dawidoff2003
Beethoven: The Music and the Life por Lewis Lockwood2003
An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood por Jimmy Carter2002
Grant por Jean Edward Smith2002
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin por H. W. Brands2001
Johann Sebastian Bach, el músico sabio (2 volúmenes) por Christoph Wolff2001
Clear Springs: A Family Story por Bobbie Ann Mason2000
La Hija de Galileo: Una nueva visión de la vida y la obra de Galileo por Dava Sobel2000
At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life por Francine du Plessix Gray1999
Una mente prodigiosa por Sylvia Nasar1999
Alfred C. Kinsey : A Public/Private Life por James H. Jones1998
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography por Sam Tanenhaus1998
In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country por Kim Barnes1997
Herman Melville: A Biography: Volume 1, 1819-1851 por Hershel Parker1997
John Sloan: Painter and Rebel por John Loughery1996
Mozart: A Life por Maynard Solomon1996
Hugo Black: A Biography por Roger K. Newman1995
Saint-Exupery: A Biography por Stacy Schiff1995
In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding por Deborah Baker1994
Genet por Edmund White1994
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman por James Gleick1993
Kissinger: A Biography por Walter Isaacson1993
Frederick Douglass por William S. McFeely1992
Geoorge Orwell: biografia autorizada por Michael Shelden1992
The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918 por Patricia O'Toole1991
Alfred I. du Pont: The Man and His Family por Joseph Frazier Wall1991
The Road from Coorain por Jill Ker Conway1990
Clear Pictures: First Loves First Guides por Reynolds Price1990
A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt por Geoffrey C. Ward1990
Freud por Peter Gay1989
The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume 2, 1941–1967, I Dream a World. por Arnold Rampersad1989
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam por Neil Sheehan1989
Hemingway por Kenneth S. Lynn1988
George Santayana: A Biography por John McCormick1988
Dostoevsky: the stir of liberation 1860-1865 por Joseph Frank1987
The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams por Leonard L. Richards1987
Murrow: His Life and Times por A.M. Sperber1987
George Washington Williams: A Biography por John Hope Franklin1986
A Hidden Childhood: A Jewish Girl's Sanctuary in a French Convent 1942-1945 por Frida Scheps Weinstein1986
La Formación de William James por Howard M. Feinstein1985
The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton por Michael Mott1985
Thomas Carlyle: A Biography por Fred Kaplan1984
Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just por Kenneth R. Manning1984
Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry, 1874-1915 por Ted Morgan1983
Thomas E. Dewey and His Times por Richard Norton Smith1983
Waldo Emerson por Gay Wilson Allen1982
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt por David McCullough1982
Walt Whitman: A Life por Justin Kaplan1981
Walter Lippmann and the American Century por Ronald Steel1981
Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur por Ernest Samuels1980
Being Bernard Berenson: A Biography por Meryle Secrest1980
The Duke of Deception: Memories of My Father por Geoffrey Wolff1980

Descripciones

The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by Hungarian-American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City. According to the administrators of the Pulitzer Prize the correct pronunciation of the name should sound like the verb pull, as in "Pull it, sir".

Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of these, each winner receives a certificate and a US$10,000 cash award. The winner in the public service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold medal, which always goes to a newspaper, although an individual may be named in the citation (Spanish, Escritos por miembros)
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City.

There are six categories in letters and drama:

Fiction – for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.

Drama – for a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life.

History – for a distinguished book on the history of the United States.

Biography or Autobiography – for a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author.
Poetry – for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author.
General Non-Fiction – for a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category. (English, Escritos por miembros)

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