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The 50 Best Biographies of All Time
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Crown The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, by Tom Reiss
You’re probably familiar with The Count of Monte Cristo, the revenge novel by Alexandre Dumas. But did you know it was based on the life of Dumas’s father, the mixed-race General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, son of a French nobleman and a Haitian slave? Thanks to Reiss’s masterful pacing and plotting, this rip-roaring biography of Thomas-Alexandre reads more like an adventure novel than a work of nonfiction. The Black Count won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in , and it’s only a matter of time before a filmmaker turns it into a big-screen blockbuster.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret, by Craig Brown
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Few biographies are as genuinely fun to read as this barnburner from the irreverent English critic Craig Brown. Princess Margaret may have been everyone’s favorite charact
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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, USD.[1]
From to , 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 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year.[3]
Recipients
[edit]In its first 97 years to , the Biography Pulitzer was awarded 97 times. Two were given in , and none in [4]
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[edit]| Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
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| Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall | Julia Ward Howe | ||
| William Cabell Bruce | Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed | ||
| Henry Adams | The Education of Henry Adams | ||
| Albert J. Beveridge | The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols. | ||
| Edward Bok | The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dut |