Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography — Complete Winners List

16 years of winners · Pulitzer Prize Board, Columbia University · Since 1917 · ← Back to award page

Year	Title	Author	Publisher
2025	Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life	Jason Roberts	—
2024	King: A Life	Jonathan Eig	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2023	G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century	Beverly Gage	—
2022	Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South	Winfred Rembert	Bloomsbury Publishing
2021	The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X	Les Payne	Liveright Publishing
2020	Sontag: Her Life and Work	Benjamin Moser	Ecco
2019	The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke	Jeffrey C. Stewart	Oxford University Press
2018	Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder	Caroline Fraser	Metropolitan Books
2017	The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between	Hisham Matar	Random House
2016	Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life	William Finnegan	Penguin Press
2015	The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe	David I. Kertzer	Random House
2014	Margaret Fuller: A New American Life	Megan Marshall	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2013	The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo	Tom Reiss	Crown
2012	George F. Kennan: An American Life	John Lewis Gaddis	Penguin Press
2011	Washington: A Life	Ron Chernow	Penguin Press
2010	The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt	T.J. Stiles	Alfred A. Knopf