ShelfEvidentPulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography — Complete Winners List
109 years of winners · Pulitzer Prize Board, Columbia University · Since 1917 · ← Back to award page
| 2026 | — | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
| 2025 | Jason Roberts | — | |
| 2024 | Jonathan Eig | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
| 2023 | Beverly Gage | — | |
| 2022 | Winfred Rembert | Bloomsbury Publishing | |
| 2021 | Les Payne | Liveright Publishing | |
| 2020 | Benjamin Moser | Ecco | |
| 2019 | Jeffrey C. Stewart | Oxford University Press | |
| 2018 | Caroline Fraser | Metropolitan Books | |
| 2017 | Hisham Matar | Random House | |
| 2016 | William Finnegan | Penguin Press | |
| 2015 | David I. Kertzer | Random House | |
| 2014 | Megan Marshall | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | |
| 2013 | Tom Reiss | Crown | |
| 2012 | John Lewis Gaddis | Penguin Press | |
| 2011 | Ron Chernow | Penguin Press | |
| 2010 | T.J. Stiles | Alfred A. Knopf | |
| 2009 | Jon Meacham | — | |
| 2008 | John Matteson | — | |
| 2007 | Debby Applegate | — | |
| 2006 | Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin | — | |
| 2005 | Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan | — | |
| 2004 | William Taubman | — | |
| 2003 | Robert A. Caro | — | |
| 2002 | David McCullough | — | |
| 2001 | David Levering Lewis | — | |
| 2000 | Stacy Schiff | — | |
| 1999 | A. Scott Berg | — | |
| 1998 | Katharine Graham | — | |
| 1997 | Frank McCourt | — | |
| 1996 | Jack Miles | — | |
| 1995 | Joan D. Hedrick | — | |
| 1994 | David Levering Lewis | — | |
| 1993 | David McCullough | — | |
| 1992 | Lewis B. Puller | — | |
| 1991 | Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith | — | |
| 1990 | Sebastian de Grazia | — | |
| 1989 | Richard Ellmann | — | |
| 1988 | David Herbert Donald | — | |
| 1987 | David J. Garrow | — | |
| 1986 | Elizabeth Frank | — | |
| 1985 | Kenneth Silverman | — | |
| 1984 | Louis R. Harlan | — | |
| 1983 | Russell Baker | — | |
| 1982 | William S. McFeely | — | |
| 1981 | Robert K. Massie | — | |
| 1980 | Edmund Morris | — | |
| 1979 | Leonard Baker | — | |
| 1978 | W. Jackson Bate | — | |
| 1977 | John E. Mack | — | |
| 1976 | R. W. B. Lewis | — | |
| 1975 | Robert Caro | — | |
| 1974 | Louis Sheaffer | — | |
| 1973 | W. A. Swanberg | — | |
| 1972 | Joseph P. Lash | — | |
| 1971 | Lawrance Thompson | — | |
| 1970 | Thomas Harry Williams | — | |
| 1969 | Benjamin Lawrence Reid | — | |
| 1968 | George F. Kennan | — | |
| 1967 | Justin Kaplan | — | |
| 1966 | Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. | — | |
| 1965 | Ernest Samuels | — | |
| 1964 | Walter Jackson Bate | — | |
| 1963 | Leon Edel | — | |
| 1961 | David Donald | — | |
| 1960 | Samuel Eliot Morison | — | |
| 1959 | Arthur Walworth | — | |
| 1958 | Douglas Southall Freeman with John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth | — | |
| 1957 | John F. Kennedy | — | |
| 1956 | Talbot Faulkner Hamlin | — | |
| 1955 | William S. White | — | |
| 1954 | Charles A. Lindbergh | — | |
| 1953 | David J. Mays | — | |
| 1952 | Merlo J. Pusey | — | |
| 1951 | Margaret Louise Coit | — | |
| 1950 | Samuel Flagg Bemis | — | |
| 1949 | Robert E. Sherwood | — | |
| 1948 | Margaret Clapp | — | |
| 1947 | William Allen White | — | |
| 1946 | Linnie Marsh Wolfe | — | |
| 1945 | Russel Blaine Nye | — | |
| 1944 | Carleton Mabee | — | |
| 1943 | Samuel Eliot Morison | — | |
| 1942 | Forrest Wilson | — | |
| 1941 | Ola Elizabeth Winslow | — | |
| 1940 | Ray Stannard Baker | — | |
| 1939 | Carl Van Doren | — | |
| 1938 | Marquis James | — | |
| 1937 | Allan Nevins | — | |
| 1936 | Ralph Barton Perry | — | |
| 1935 | Douglas S. Freeman | — | |
| 1934 | Tyler Dennett | — | |
| 1933 | Allan Nevins | — | |
| 1932 | Henry F. Pringle | — | |
| 1931 | Henry James | — | |
| 1930 | Marquis James | — | |
| 1929 | Burton J. Hendrick | — | |
| 1928 | Charles Edward Russell | — | |
| 1927 | Emory Holloway | — | |
| 1926 | Harvey Cushing | — | |
| 1925 | M. A. De Wolfe Howe | — | |
| 1924 | Michael I. Pupin | — | |
| 1923 | Burton J. Hendrick | — | |
| 1922 | Hamlin Garland | — | |
| 1921 | Edward Bok | — | |
| 1920 | Albert J. Beveridge | — | |
| 1919 | Henry Adams | — | |
| 1918 | William Cabell Bruce | — | |
| 1917 | Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall | — |
