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Pulitzer Prize for Biography

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." Award winners receive US$15,000.

Recipients
In its first 97 years to 2013, the Biography Pulitzer was awarded 97 times. Two were given in 1938, and none in 1962. 1910s-1940s 1950s-1970s 1980s Entries from this point on include the finalists listed after the winner for each year. 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s ==Repeat winners==
Repeat winners
Ten people have won the Pulitzer for Biography or Autobiography twice: • Burton J. Hendrick, 1923, 1929 • Allan Nevins, 1933, 1937 • Marquis James, 1930, 1938 • Douglas S. Freeman, 1935, 1958 • Samuel Eliot Morison, 1943, 1960 • Walter Jackson Bate, 1964, 1978 • David Herbert Donald, 1961, 1988 • David Levering Lewis, 1994, 2001 • David McCullough, 1993, 2002 • Robert Caro, 1975, 2003 W. A. Swanberg was selected by the Pulitzer board in 1962 and 1973; however, the trustees of Columbia University (then responsible for conferral of the awards) overturned the proposed 1962 prize for Citizen Hearst. ==See also==
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