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The Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished biography or autobiography 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.
Contents
Finalists have been announced from 1980, ordinarily two others beside the winner.
Winners
In its first 97 years to 2013, the Biography Pulitzer was awarded 97 times. Two were given in 1938, none in 1962.
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
Entries from this point on include the finalists listed after the winner for each year.
1990s
2000s
2010s
Repeat winners
No one has won the Pulitzer for Biography or Autobiography three times. Eleven people have won two:
W. A. Swanberg was selected by the Pulitzer board in 1962 and 1973 but the trustees overturned the 1962 prize for Citizen Hearst.
References
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