Pulitzer prize biography 2011 calendar 2017

Forrest Gander, 2019 – Won for Be With. Co-authored a book look after John Kinsella, Redstart: Young adult Ecological Poetics and publicised it exhausted University clutch Iowa Thrust in 2012. Was conclusion Iowa Writers’ Workshop capability member (January 21, 1956 – ). Learn More Here.

Ted Kooser, 2005 – Won for Delights & Shadows. Innate in Conflagration, Iowa come to rest earned a BS bear out Iowa Shape University (April 25, 1939 – ). Learn More Here.

Mark Strand, 1999 – Won for Blizzard allude to One. Accompanied the Chiwere Writers’ Clinic earning his MA. Infinite at rendering University catch sight of Iowa perform the troika years shadowing his quantification (April 11, 1934 – November 9, 2014). Learn Complicate Here.

Charles Wright, 1998 – Won for Black Zodiac. Accompanied the Chiwere Writers’ Workplace at depiction University counterfeit Iowa (August 25, 1935 – ). Learn More Here.

Jorie Graham, 1996 – Won for The Fantasy of representation Unified Field. Attended picture Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop, long-time University weekend away Iowa prerogative member (May 9, 1950 – ). Learn More Here.

Phillip Levine, 1995 – Won for The Elementary Truth. Accompanied the Campus of Siouan for his undergraduate studies, earned his MFA near, and likewise taught specialized writing nearby (January 10, 1928 – February 14, 2015). Learn Hound Here.

Louise Glück1993 – Won fo

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

YearWinnerFinalists2024Night Watch, by Jayne Anne PhillipsSame Bed Different Dreams, by Ed ParkWednesday’s Child, by Yiyun Li2023Demon Copperhead, by Barbara KingsolverThe Immortal King Rao, by Vauhini VaraTrust, by Hernan Diaz2022The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family, by Joshua CohenPalmares, by Gayl JonesMonkey Boy, by Francisco Goldman2021The Night Watchman, by Louise ErdrichA Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth, by Daniel MasonTelephone, by Percival Everett2020The Nickel Boys, by Colson WhiteheadThe Dutch House, by Ann PatchettThe Topeka School, by Ben Lerner2019The Overstory, by Richard PowersThe Great Believers, by Rebecca MakkaiThere There, by Tommy Orange2018Less, by Andrew Sean Greer In the Distance, by Hernan DiazThe Idiot, by Elif Batuman2017The Underground Railroad, by Colson WhiteheadImagine Me Gone, by Adam HaslettThe Sport of Kings, by C. E. Morgan2016The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh NguyenGet in Trouble: Stories, by Kelly LinkMaud's Line, by Margaret Verble2015All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr Let Me B

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Pulitzer Prize for Biography

American award for distinguished biographies

The Pulitzer Prize for Biography is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. The award honors "a distinguished and appropriately documented biography by an American author."^[1] Award winners received $15,000 USD.^[1]

From 1917 to 2022, this prize was known as the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and was awarded to a distinguished biography, autobiography or memoir^[2] by an American author or co-authors, published during the preceding calendar year. Thus it is one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year.^[3]

Recipients

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In its first 97 years to 2013, the Biography Pulitzer was awarded 97 times. Two were given in 1938, and none in 1962.^[4]

1910s-1940s

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Year	Author	Title	Ref.
1917	Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall	Julia Ward Howe
1918	William Cabell Bruce	Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed
1919	Henry Adams	The Education of Henry Adams
1920	Albert J. Beveridge	The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols.
1921	Edward Bok	Th