Pulitzer Saria ren urrezko dominaren aurrealdea eta atzealdea.
Pulitzer Saria Biografia edo Auto-biografian urtero Letre n, Antzerki en eta Musike ngatik ematen diren zazpi AEB ko Pulitzer Sarie tako bat da, eta Columbia Unibertsitate ak kudeatzen du. 1917az geroztik aurkeztu da egile estatubatuar batek biografia , autobiografia edo memori en liburu bereizgarri bat saritzeko, eta aurreko urte naturalean argitaratua.[ 1]
Beraz, jatorrizko Pulitzerren artean dago, izan ere, programa 1917an inauguratu zen zazpi sari izendatuta, baina urte horretan lau soikik banatu ziren.[ 2]
2013ra arteko lehen 97 urteetan, Pulitzer Saria Biografia edo Autobiografian 97 aldiz eman zuten. 1938an bi eman ziren, bat ere ez 1962an.[ 3]
1917: Julia Ward Howe by Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall
1918: Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed by William Cabell Bruce
1919: The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
1920: The Life of John Marshall , 4 vols. by Albert J. Beveridge
1921: The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After by Edward Bok
1922: A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
1923: The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page by Burton J. Hendrick
1924: From Immigrant to Inventor by Michael I. Pupin
1925: Barrett Wendell and His Letters by M. A. Dewolfe Howe
1926: The Life of Sir William Osler , 2 vols. by Harvey Cushing
1927: Whitman by Emory Holloway
1928: The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas by Charles Edward Russell
1929: The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page by Burton J. Hendrick
1930: The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston by Marquis James
1931: Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University, 1869–1901 by Henry James
1932: Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography by Henry F. Pringle
1933: Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage by Allan Nevins
1934: John Hay by Tyler Dennett
1935: R. E. Lee by Douglas S. Freeman
1936: The Thought and Character of William James by Ralph Barton Perry
1937: Hamilton Fish by Allan Nevins
1938: Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott by Odell Shepard
1938: Andrew Jackson , 2 vols. by Marquis James
1939: Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren
1940: Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII by Ray Stannard Baker
1941: Jonathan Edwards, 1703–1758: a biography by Ola Elizabeth Winslow
1942: Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Forrest Wilson
1943: Admiral of the Ocean Sea by Samuel Eliot Morison
1944: The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse by Carleton Mabee
1945: George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel by Russel Blaine Nye
1946: Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir by Linnie Marsh Wolfe
1947: The Autobiography of William Allen White by William Allen White
1948: Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow by Margaret Clapp
1949: Roosevelt and Hopkins by Robert E. Sherwood
1950: John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis
1951: John C. Calhoun: American Portrait by Margaret Louise Coit
1952: Charles Evans Hughes by Merlo J. Pusey
1953: Edmund Pendleton 1721–1803 by David J. Mays
1954: The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh
1955: The Taft Story by William S. White
1956: Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Talbot Faulkner Hamlin
1957: Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
1958: George Washington, Volumes I-VII by Douglas Southall Freeman with John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth
1959: Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet by Arthur Walworth
1960: John Paul Jones by Samuel Eliot Morison
1961: Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War by David Donald
1962: no award given
1963: Henry James by Leon Edel
1964: John Keats by Walter Jackson Bate
1965: Henry Adams , 3 vols., by Ernest Samuels
1966: A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
1967: Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain by Justin Kaplan
1968: Memoirs by George F. Kennan
1969: The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends by Benjamin Lawrence Reid
1970: Huey Long by Thomas Harry Williams
1971: Robert Frost : The Years of Triumph, 1915–1938 , by Lawrance Thompson
1972: Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash
1973: Luce and His Empire by W. A. Swanberg
1974: O'Neill, Son and Artist by Louis Sheaffer
1975: The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro
1976: Edith Wharton: A Biography by R. W. B. Lewis
1977: A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence by John E. Mack
1978: Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate
1979: Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews by Leonard Baker
1980: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
1981: Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie
1982: Grant: A Biography by William S. McFeely
1983: Growing Up by Russell Baker
1984: Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915 by Louis R. Harlan
1985: The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman
1986: Louise Bogan: A Portrait by Elizabeth Frank
1987: Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow
1988: Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald
1989: Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann
1990: Machiavelli in Hell by Sebastian de Grazia
1991: Jackson Pollock: An American Saga by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
1992: Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller Jr. by Lewis B. Puller
1993: Truman by David McCullough
1994: W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919 by David Levering Lewis
1995: Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life by Joan D. Hedrick
1996: God: A Biography by Jack Miles
1997: Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
1998: Personal History by Katharine Graham
1999: Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg
2000: Vera, Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov by Stacy Schiff
2001: W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis
2002: John Adams by David McCullough
2003: Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro
2004: Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman
2005: de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
2006: American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
2007: The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate
2008: Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson
2009: American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
2010: The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles
2011: Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
2012: George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
2013: The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
2014: Margaret Fuller: A New American Life by Megan Marshall
2015: The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer
2016: Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
2017: The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar
2018: Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
2019: The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart
2020: Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser
2021: The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
2022: Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South, by the late Winfred Rembert as told to Erin I. Kelly
2023: G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage
2024: King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
Hamar lagunek irabazi dute bi aldiz Pulitzer Saria Biografia edo Autobiografian:
Burton J. Hendrick, 1923, 1929
Allan Nevins, 1933, 1937
Marquis James, 1930, 1938
Douglas S. Freeman, 1935, 1958
Samuel Eliot Morison, 1943, 1960
Walter Jackson Bate, 1964, 1978
David Herbert Donald, 1961, 1988
David Levering Lewis, 1994, 2001
David McCullough, 1993, 2002
Robert Caro, 1975, 2003
W. A. Swanberg Pulitzer zuzendaritzak 1962an eta 1973an hautatu zuen, baina Columbia Unibertsitateko patronatuak Hearst herritarra -rentzat proposatutako 1962 saria baliogabetu egin zuen.
↑ (Ingelesez) Hohenberg, John. (1974). The Pulitzer Prizes: A History of the Awards in Books, Drama, Music, and Journalism, Based on the Private Files Over Six Decades. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 55, 143–44, 198, 204, 258 or. ISBN 0231038879 . .
↑ (Ingelesez) "1917 Winners". The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org) .
↑ (Ingelesez) "Biography: Prize Winners by Category". www.pulitzer.org .