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Award Winning Biographies and Memoirs

208 books from 13 lists, 1845 to 2026

A great biography does two jobs at once, telling one life properly and using it to explain an age. The Pulitzer Prize for Biography has been picking them since 1917 and every winner is here, joined by the memoirs and life writing that won general non fiction prizes instead of the category built for them.

Books by prize

One shelf per list, newest first on each. The prize name opens its full list.