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Check Out a Champion: Pulitzer Prize Winners in Literature: Biography

Includes winning titles from the Fiction/Novel, Nonfiction, History, Biography/Memoir, Drama, and Poetry categories

The Award

The Pulitzer Prize in the Biography category was first awarded in 1917. It is awarded for “a distinguished and appropriately documented
biography by an American author.” See also: winners in the Memoir/AutobiographyHistory, and General Nonfiction categories.

“Biography.” The Pulitzer Prizes. Columbia University, 2024. Web. www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/222.

SSPL Holdings (1917 - present)

Winners from Other Years (1956 - present)

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Winners from Other Years (1917 - 1955)