Pulitzer Prize for Biography Winners, 2005–2026

Pulitzer Prize for Biography Winners by Year

22 winners from 2005 to 2026, newest first.

Pulitzer Prize for Biography winners by year, most recent first.

Year	Winning work	Author	More information
2026	Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution	Amanda Vaill	Book details
2025	Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life	Jason Roberts	Book details
2024	King: A Life	Jonathan Eig	Book details
2023	G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century	Beverly Gage	Book details
2022	Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South	Winfred Rembert and Erin I. Kelly	Book details
2021	The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X	Les Payne and Tamara Payne	Book details
2020	Sontag: Her Life and Work	Benjamin Moser	Book details
2019	The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke	Jeffrey C. Stewart	Book details
2018	Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder	Caroline Fraser	Book details
2017	The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between	Hisham Matar	Book details
2016	Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life	William Finnegan	Book details
2015	The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe	David I. Kertzer	Book details
2014	Margaret Fuller: A New American Life	Megan Marshall	Book details
2013	The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo	Tom Reiss	Book details
2012	George F. Kennan: An American Life	John Lewis Gaddis	Book details
2011	Washington: A Life	Ron Chernow	Book details
2010	The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt	T. J. Stiles	Book details
2009	American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House	Jon Meacham	Book details
2008	Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father	John Matteson	Book details
2007	The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher	Debby Applegate	Book details
2006	American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer	Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin	Book details
2005	de Kooning: An American Master	Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan	Book details

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  2026Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

  by Amanda Vaill

• 
  2025Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

  by Jason Roberts

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  2024King: A Life

  by Jonathan Eig

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  2023G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

  by Beverly Gage

• 
  2022Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South

  by Winfred Rembert and Erin I. Kelly

• 
  2021The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

  by Les Payne and Tamara Payne

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  2020Sontag: Her Life and Work

  by Benjamin Moser

• 
  2019The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke

  by Jeffrey C. Stewart

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  2018Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

  by Caroline Fraser

• 
  2017The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between

  by Hisham Matar

• 
  2016Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

  by William Finnegan

• 
  2015The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe

  by David I. Kertzer

• 
  2014Margaret Fuller: A New American Life

  by Megan Marshall

• 
  2013The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

  by Tom Reiss

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  2012George F. Kennan: An American Life

  by John Lewis Gaddis

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  2011Washington: A Life

  by Ron Chernow

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  2010The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

  by T. J. Stiles

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  2009American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

  by Jon Meacham

• 
  2008Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father

  by John Matteson

• 
  2007The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher

  by Debby Applegate

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  2006American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

  by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

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  2005de Kooning: An American Master

  by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan