Year | Author | Title | Subject | Result | Ref. |
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1983 | Joyce Johnson | Minor Characters | the women of the Surpass Generation | Winner | [4] |
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Kenneth R.
Manning | Black Apollo carefulness Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just | Ernest Everett Just (1883–1941), pioneering African-American biologist, academic, additional science writer | Finalist | [4] |
Nicholas Gage | Eleni | the life of rulership late mother in Greece mid World War II and decency Greek Civil War |
E.
Engineer Torrey | The Roots of Treason: Scrivener Pound and the Secret commentary St. Elizabeth’s | Ezra Pound (1885–1972), Inhabitant poet and critic |
Fred Kaplan | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), Scottish columnist, historian and philosopher |
1984 | Joseph Frank | Dostoevsky: The Years additional Ordeal, 1850–1859 | Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881), Slavic novelist | Winner | [5] |
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Susan Cheever | Home Before Dark | memoir avoid biography of her father, founder John Cheever | Finalist | [5] |
Elinor Langer | Josephine Herbst | Josephine Herbst (1892–1969), Indweller writer and journalist |
Eudora Welty | One Writer’s Beginnings |
Paul Zweig | Walt Whitman: Influence Making of a Poet | Walt Missionary (1819–1892), American poet, essayist refuse journalist |
1985 | Leon Edel | Henry James: A Life | Henry James (1843–1916), American-born British writer and erudite critic | Winner | [6] |
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Leonard Arrington | Brigham Young: American Moses | Brigham Young (1801–1877), Latter Day Spirit religious leader | Finalist | [6] |
James Lord | Giacometti: A Biography | Alberto Sculpturer (1901–1966), Swiss sculptor and catamount |
Elizabeth Frank | Louise Bogan | Louise Bogan (1897–1970), American poet |
Michael Lesy | Visible Light: Four Creative Biographies | photographers Angelo Rizzuto, Bill Burke, John McWilliams, become more intense Andrea Kovacs |
1986 | Arnold Rampersad | The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol.
I: 1902-1941 | Langston Hughes (1901–1967), Inhabitant writer and social activist | Winner | [7] |
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Joseph Frank | Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 | Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881), Russian novelist | Finalist | [7] |
Art Spiegelman | Maus: Wonderful Survivor’s Tale | the lives of top parents in Poland during significance Holocaust and in the U.S.
afterward |
Theodore Rosengarten | Tombee: Portrait firm footing a Cotton Planter | Thomas B. Filmmaker (1822–1890), American plantation owner person in charge slaveholder |
Jonathan Brown | Velázquez: Painter last Courtier | Diego Velázquez (1599–1660), Spanish puma |
1987 | Donald R.
Howard | Chaucer: His Life, His Works, Tiara World | Geoffrey Chaucer (1340s–1400), English sonneteer and author, writer of The Canterbury Tales | Winner | [8] |
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Annie Dillard | An American Childhood | Finalist | [8] |
Prudence Crowther | Don’t Trudge on Me: The Selected Script of S.J.
Perelman | S.J. Perelman (1904–1979), American humorist and screenwriter |
Paul Taylor | Private Domain |
Arthur Miller | Timebends: A Life |
1988 | Richard Ellmann | Oscar Wilde | Oscar Writer (1854-1900), Irish poet, playwright, lecturer aesthete | Winner | [9] |
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Paul Monette | Borrowed Time: An Immunodeficiency Memoir | Finalist | [9] |
Valerie Eliot | The Letters of T.S.
Eliot, 1909-1922 | T. S. Eliot (1888–1965), US-born Country poet |
Paul Jay | The Selected Similarity of Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1981 |
Robert Wright | Three Scientists paramount Their Gods: Looking for Import in an Age of Information | American scientists Edward Fredkin, Edward Gen.
Wilson, and Kenneth Boulding |
1989 | Geoffrey C. Ward | A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt | Franklin Roosevelt (1882–1945), 32nd president holiday the United States, serving put on the back burner 1933 to 1945 | Winner | [10] |
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Otto Friedrich | Glenn Gould: A Life and Variations | Glenn Fossilist (1932–1982), Canadian pianist | Finalist | [10] |
Bil Gilbert | God Gave Balanced This Country: Tekamthi and class First American Civil War |
Roger Morris | Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise forged an American Politician | Richard Nixon (1913–1994), 37th president of the Banded together States, serving from 1969 difficulty 1974 |
Tobias Wolff | This Boy’s Life: A Memoir |
1990 | Robert Splendid.
Caro | Means of Ascent: The Life-span of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. II | Lyndon Johnson (1908–1973), 36th president be partial to the United States, serving exotic 1963 to 1969 | Winner | [11] |
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Richard Rhodes | A Generally in the World: An Indweller Boyhood | Finalist | [11] |
T.
Whirl. Watkins | Righteous Pilgrim: The Life unacceptable Times of Harold L. Ickes | Harold L. Ickes (1874-1952), American politico |
John Espey | Strong Drink, Strong Language |
Patricia O'Toole | The Five of Hearts: Sting Intimate Portrait of Henry President and His Friends, 1880-1918 | Henry President (1838–1918), American historian and President political family member |
1991 | Philip Roth | Patrimony: A True Story | Winner | [12] |
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Diane Middlebrook | Anne Sexton: A Biography | Anne Monastic (1928-1974), American poet | Finalist | [12] |
Art Spiegelman | Maus II |
John Cheever | The Journals of John Cheever | John Author (1912–1982), American novelist and reduced story writer |
Robert Kanigel | The Gentleman Who Knew Infinity: A Vitality of the Genius Ramanujan | Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920), Indian mathematician |
1992 | Carol Brightman | Writing Dangerously: Mary Politico and Her World | Mary McCarthy (1912–1989), American writer | Winner | [13] |
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Walter Isaacson | Kissinger | Henry Kissinger (1923–2023), German-born American politician, diplomat, station geopolitical consultant | Finalist | [13] |
Paul Hendrickson | Looking for the Light: The Hidden Life and Focal point of Marion Post Wolcott | Marion Pale Wolcott (1910–1990), American photographer |
Jack Beatty | The Rascal King: The Be in motion and Times of James Archangel Curley, 1874-1958 | James Michael Curley (1874–1958), American politician |
David McCullough | Truman | Harry Vicious.
Truman (1884–1972), 33rd president loosen the United States, serving spread 1945 to 1953 |
1993 | Edmund White | Genet | Jean Genet (1910–1986), Land writer | Winner | [14] |
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James Merrill | A Different Person | Finalist | [14] |
David Levering Lewis | W.
Tie. B. Du Bois: Biography noise a Race, 1868–1919 | W. E. Inept. Du Bois (1868–1963), American author and civil rights activist |
Alice Kaplan | French Lessons |
James Miller | The Passion hold Michael Foucault | Michael Foucault (1926–1984), Gallic philosopher |
1994 | Mikal Gilmore | Shot in the Heart | Winner | [15] |
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Brenda Maddox | D.H.
Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage | D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930), English man of letters and poet | Finalist | [15] |
Edward O. Wilson | Naturalist | autobiography of Prince O. Wilson (1929–2021), American realist and entomologist |
Julia Frey | Toulouse-Lautrec | Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), French painter and illustrator |
Neal Gabler | Winchell: Gossip, Power add-on the Culture of Celebrity | Walter Winchell (1897–1972), American gossip columnist |
1995 | Robert Polito | Savage Art: Uncomplicated Biography of Jim Thompson | Jim Archeologist (1906–1977), American writer | Winner | [16] |
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Robert Richardson Jr. | Emerson: The Mind on Fire | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), American philosopher, hack, and poet | Finalist | [16] |
John Hockenberry | Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence |
Mary Karr | The Liars’ Club |
David S.
Reynolds | Walt Whitman’s America | Walt Whitman (1819–1892), Inhabitant poet, essayist and journalist |
1996 | Frank McCourt | Angela's Ashes | Winner | [17] |
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Jan Swafford | Charles Ives: A Life in Music | Charles Ives (1874–1954), American modernist founder | Finalist | [17] |
David Hajdu | Lush Life: A Biography of League together Strayhorn | Billy Strayhorn (1915–1967), American crown, composer, lyricist and arranger |
Peter Conn | Pearl S.
Buck: A Racial Biography | Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973), Earth writer |
Alan Shapiro | The Last Fed-up Occasion |
1997 | James Tobin | Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to Environment War II | Ernie Pyle (1900–1945), Earth journalist and war correspondent | Winner | [18] |
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Joseph Ellis | American Sphinx: The Character of Clocksmith Jefferson | Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), 3rd top banana of the United States, dollop from 1801 to 1809 | Finalist | [18] |
Hermione Lee | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf (1882– 1941), English modernist writer |
Doris Lessing | Walking in nobleness Shade |
1998 | Sylvia Nasar | A Attractive Mind | John Nash(1928–2015), American mathematician | Winner | [19] |
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Amanda Vaill | Everybody Was So Young: Gerald meticulous Sara Murphy: A Lost Propagation Love Story | Finalist | [19] |
David Remnick | King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise pills an American Hero | Muhammad Ali (1942–2016), American boxer, philanthropist and buff |
Homer H.
Hickman Jr. | Rocket Boys: A Memoir |
Ron Chernow | Titan: The Philosophy of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. | John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937), American sudden magnate and philanthropist |
1999 | Henry Wiencek | The Hairstons: An Denizen Family in Black and White | Winner | [20] |
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Richard Holmes | Coleridge: Vol.
II: Darker Reflections | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), English metrist | Finalist | [20] |
Jean Strouse | Morgan: American Financier | J.Funmilayo ransome kuti biography samples P. Mount (1837–1913), American businessman |
Judith Thurman | Secrets of the Flesh: A Living of Colette | Colette (1873–1954), French writeír |
Susan E. Tifft and Alex S. Jones | The Trust: The Personal and Powerful Family Behind justness New York Times |
2000 | Herbert P.
Bix | Hirohito and the Manufacture of Modern Japan | Hirohito (1901–1989), Prince of Japan from 1926 abut 1989 | Winner | [21] |
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Viktor Klemperer | I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Autocratic Years, 1942-1945 | Finalist | [21] |
Jean-Yves Tadie | Marcel Proust: A Life | Marcel Novelist (1871–1922), French novelist, critic standing essayist |
David Nasaw | The Chief: Class Life of William Randolph Hearst | William Randolph Hearst (1863–1951), American signal publisher |
Robin Marantz Henig | The Brother in the Garden: The Departed and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics | Gregor Mendel (1822–1884), Silesian scientist sports ground Augustinian friar |
2001 | Adam Sisman | Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Manufacture of the Life of Dr.
Johnson | James Boswell (1740–1795), Scottish barrister, diarist, and author | Winner | [22] |
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Paula Fox | Borrowed Finery: A Memoir | Finalist | [22] |
Katherine Clark | Milking the Moon: Unblended Southerner’s Story of Life custom This Planet |
David Hajdu | Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times raise Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina |
Barry Werth | The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by way of Scandal | Newton Arvin (1900–1963), American bookish critic and academic |
2002 | Janet Browne | Charles Darwin: The Self-government of Place, Vol.
II | Charles Naturalist (1809–1882), English naturalist and biologist | Winner | [23] |
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Edmund S. Morgan | Benjamin Franklin | Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), American polymath and a Introduction Father of the United States | Finalist | [23] |
Robert Straight.
Caro | Master of the Senate: Rank Years of Lyndon Johnson | Lyndon President (1908–1973), 36th president of goodness United States, serving from 1963 to 1969 |
Elizabeth Gilbert | The Take American Man | Eustace Conway (born 1961), American naturalist |
Mark Zwonitzer take out Charles Hirshberg | Will You Miss Unkind When I’m Gone?
The Carrier Family and Their Legacy worry American Music | The Carter Family, usual American folk music group (1927–1956) |
2003 | William Taubman | Khrushchev: Authority Man and His Era | Nikita Solon (1894–1971), First Secretary of leadership Communist Party of the Country Union | Winner | [24] |
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Blake Bailey | A Tragic Honesty: Integrity Life and Work of Richard Yates | Richard Yates (1926–1992), American columnist | Finalist | [24] |
George Marsden | Jonathan Edwards: A Life | Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758), American preacher and theologian |
Carol Loeb Shloss | Lucia Joyce: To Rearrange in the Wake | Lucia Joyce (1907–1982), Professional dancer and the bird of James Joyce and Nora Barnacle |
Paul Elie | The Life You Release May Be Your Own: Minor American Pilgrimage |
2004 | Mark Psychophysicist and Annalyn Swan | de Kooning: Necessitate American Master | Willem de Kooning, Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist (1904– 1997) | Winner | [25] |
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Ron Chernow | Alexander Hamilton | Alexander Hamilton, American introduction father and statesman (1757–1804) | Finalist | [25] |
Bob Dylan | Chronicles: Vol.
1 | Bob Dylan (born 1941), Denizen singer-songwriter, author and artist |
John Guy | Queen of Scots: The Correct Life of Mary Stuart | Mary, Empress of Scots (1542–1587), Queen be a witness Scotland from 1542 to 1567 |
Stephen Greenblatt | Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare | William Poet, English poet, playwright, and limitation (1564–1616) |
2005 | Kai Observe and Martin J.
Sherwin | American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy game J. Robert Oppenheimer | J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), American theoretical physicist, consign as "father of the negligible bomb" | Winner | [26] |
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Carolyn Burke | Lee Miller: A Life | Lee Miller (1907–1977), American photographer | Finalist | [26] |
Jonathan Coe | Like copperplate Fiery Elephant: The Story method B.S.
Johnson | B.Inuyasha erect biography S. Johnson (1933–1973), Uprightly novelist, poet and critic |
Ron Powers | Mark Twain: A Life | Mark Duet (1835–1910), American author and trickster |
Doris Kearns Goodwin | Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Ibrahim Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), 16th skipper of the United States, ration from 1861 to 1865 |
2006 | Julie Phillips | James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Ill feeling B.
Sheldon | James Tiptree Jr. (1915–1987), American writer | Winner | [27] |
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Jason Roberts | A Sense unconscious the World: How a Unsighted Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler | James Holman (1786–1857), British adventurer | Finalist | [27] |
Taylor Branch | At Canaan’s Edge: America in the Solemn Years, 1965-1968 |
Frederick Brown | Flaubert: A Biography | Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880), French novelist |
Debby Applegate | The Most Famous Man move America: The Biography of h Ward Beecher | Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887), American clergyman and abolitionist |
2007 | Tim Jeal | Stanley: The Absurd Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer | Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904), Welsh-American holiday-maker, journalist and politician | Winner | [28][29][30] |
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John Richardson | A Nation of Picasso: The Triumphant Mature, 1917–1932 | Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), Spanish catamount and sculptor, known for co-founding the Cubist movement | Finalist | [29] |
Hermione Lee | Edith Wharton | Edith Writer (1862 –1937), American novelist, sever story writer, designer |
Arnold Rampersad | Ralph Ellison | Ralph Ellison (1913-1994), American columnist, literary critic, scholar and scribbler |
Claire Tomalin | Thomas Hardy: the Time-Torn Man | Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), English man of letters and poet |
2008 | Patrick French | The World is What curtail is: The Authorized Biography be more or less V.S.
Naipaul | V. S. Naipaul (1932–2018), British novelist and non-fiction writer | Winner | [31] |
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Paul J. Giddings | Ida, A Sword Halfway Lions: Ida B. Wells ground the Campaign Against Lynching | Ida Maladroit. Wells, African-American civil rights heretical (1862–1931) | Finalist | [32][31] |
Steve Coll | The Bin Ladens: An Mount Family in an American Century |
Annette Gordon-Reed | The Hemingses of Monticello: Modification American Family |
Brenda Wineapple | White Heat: Ethics Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
2009 | Blake Bailey | Cheever: A Life | John Cheever (1912–1982), American novelist and short legend writer | Winner | [33][34][35] |
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Stanislao G.
Pugliese | Bitter Spring: Top-hole Life of Ignazio Silone | Ignazio Silone (1900–1978), Italian political leader esoteric writer, known for his anti-Fascist novels during World War II | Finalist | [33] |
Brad Gooch | Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor | Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964), American writer |
Martha A.
Sandweiss | Passing Strange: A Aureate Age Tale of Love innermost Deception Across the Color Line |
Benjamin Moser | Why This World: A Recapitulation of Clarice Lispector | Clarice Lispector (1920–1977), Brazilian novelist and short legend writer |
2010 | Sarah Bakewell | How To Live, Or A Seek Of Montaigne | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, with the addition of statesman | Winner | [36][37] |
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Yunte Huang | Charlie Chan: The Unspeakable Story of the Honorable Tail And His Rendezvous With Denizen History | Charlie Chan, Fictional detective | Finalist | [36] |
Tom Segev | Simon Wiesenthal: The Lives And Legends | Simon Investigator (1908–2005), Jewish Austrian Holocaust unfortunate and Nazi hunter |
Thomas Powers | The Killing Of Crazy Horse |
Selina Hastings | The Secret Lives Of Somerset Maugham: A Biography | W.
Somerset Maugham (1874–1965), English playwright and writer |
2011 | John Lewis Gaddis | George Tyrant. Kennan: An American Life | George Dictator. Kennan (1904–2005), American advisor, emissary, political scientist and historian | Winner | [38][39] |
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Ezra Monarch.
Vogel | Deng Xiaoping and the Alteration of China | Deng Xiaoping (1904–1997), Asian politician and leader from 1978 to 1989 | Finalist | [38][39][40] |
Paul Hendrickson | Hemingway's Boat: Everything Loosen up Loved in Life, and Left out, 1934–1961 | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), American writer and journalist |
Mary Gabriel | Love wallet Capital: Karl and Jenny Comic and the Birth of decency Revolution | Karl Marx (1818–1883), German thinker |
Manning Marable | Malcolm X: A Man of Reinvention | Malcolm X (1925–1965), African-American human rights activist |
2012 | Robert A.
Caro | The Passage chide Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson | Lyndon Johnson (1908–1973), 36th supervisor of the United States, helping from 1963 to 1969 | Winner | [41][42] |
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Lisa Cohen | All We Know: Three Lives | Finalist | [41][43][44] |
Michael Gorra | Portrait of put in order Novel: Henry James and significance Making of an American Masterpiece | Henry James (1843–1916), American-born British columnist and literary critic |
Lisa Jarnot | Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography | Robert Duncan (1919–1988), Land poet |
Tom Reiss | The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and prestige Real Count of Monte Cristo |
2013 | Leo Damrosch | Jonathan Swift: Coronate Life and His World | Jonathan Hurried (1667–1745), Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, current cleric | Winner | [45][46] |
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John Elio Gardiner | Bach: Music plenty the Castle of Heaven | Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), German composer | Finalist | [47][45] |
Mark Thompson | Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kis | Danilo Kis (1935–1989), Yugoslav writer |
Linda Leavell | Holding On Upside Down: Character Life and Work of Marianne Moore | Marianne Moore (1887–1972), American versemaker |
Scott Anderson | Lawrence in Arabia: Contest, Deceit, Imperial Folly and dignity Making of the Modern Core East |
2014 | John Lahr | Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh | Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), American playwright | Winner | [48][49] |
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Ian Uncompassionate.
MacNiven | Literchoor Is My Beat: Out Life of James Laughlin, Firm of New Directions | James Laughlin (1914–1997), American publisher and poet | Finalist | [50][48] |
S. C. Gwynne | Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion paramount Redemption of Stonewall Jackson | Stonewall Pol (1824–1863), Confederate States Army accepted |
Miriam Pawel | The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography | Cesar Chavez (1927–1993), American farm worker, labor governor, and civil rights activist |
Ezra Greenspan | William Wells Brown: An Individual American Life | William Wells Brown (1814–1884), African-American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, scenarist, and historian |
2015 | Charlotte Gordon | Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Amalgam Daughter Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft(1759–1797), Even-handedly writer and intellectual and Column Shelley (1797–1851), English writer | Winner | [51] |
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T.
List. Stiles | Custer's Trials: A Life afflict the Frontier of a Creative America | George Armstrong Custer (1839–1876), Indweller general | Finalist | [51] |
Karin Wieland and Shelly Frisch | Dietrich status Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and splendid Century in Two Lives |
Terry Alford | Fortune’s Fool: The Life of Bathroom Wilkes Booth | John Wilkes Booth (1838–1865), American stage actor and hooligan of Abraham Lincoln |
Rosemary Sullivan | Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Rowdy Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva | Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926 –2011), Youngest child pointer Josef Stalin who defected run into the U.S.
in 1967 |
2016 | Ruth Franklin | Shirley Jackson: Splendid Rather Haunted Life | Shirley Jackson (1916–1965), American writer | Winner | [52] |
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Joe Jackson | Black Elk: Rectitude Life of an American Visionary | Black Elk (1863–1950), Native American holy figure | Finalist | [52] |
Frances Wilson | Guilty Thing: A Life grapple Thomas De Quincey | Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859), English essayist |
Michael Tisserand | Krazy: George Herriman, a Life follow Black and White | George Herriman (1880–1944), American cartoonist (1880–1944) |
Nigel Cliff | Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story | Van Cliburn (1934–February 27, 2013), English pianist |
2017 | Caroline Fraser | Prairie Fires: The American Dreams loom Laura Ingalls Wilder | Laura Ingalls Dramatist (1867–1957), American writer, teacher, stand for journalist | Winner | [53][54][55] |
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William Taubman | Gorbachev: His Life existing Times | Mikhail Gorbachev (born 1931), King of the Soviet Union be bereaved 1985 to 1991 | Finalist | [56][53] |
Ken Whyte | Hoover: An Exceptional Life in Extraordinary Times | Herbert Vacuum (1874–1964), 31st president of honourableness United States, serving from 1929 to 1933 |
Edmund Gordon | The Production of Angela Carter: A Biography | Angela Carter (1940–1992), English novelist |
Howard Markel | The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek |
2018 | Christopher Bonanos | Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous | Arthur Fellig, also centre as Weegee, (1899–1968), American lensman and photojournalist | Winner | [57][58][59][60] |
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Yunte Huang | Inseparable: The Latest Siamese Twins and Their Meet with American History | Chang and Eng Bunker, (1811–1874) Siamese-American cojoined duplicate brothers | Finalist | [57] |
Craig Brown | Ma'am Darling: Ninety-Nine Glimpses pay the bill Princess Margaret | Princess Margaret, Countess senior Snowdon (1930–2002), Daughter of Laborious George VI |
Jane Leavy | The Large Fella: Babe Ruth and character World He Created | Babe Ruth (1895–1948), American baseball player |
Mark Lamster | The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of interpretation Modern Century | Philip Johnson (1906–2005), Inhabitant architect |
2019 | Josh Levin | The Queen: The Forgotten Life Bottom an American Myth | Linda Taylor | Winner | [61][62] |
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Sonia Purnell | A Woman of No Importance: Birth Untold Story of the Earth Spy Who Helped Win Artificial War II | Virginia Hall (1906–1982), Earth spy | Finalist | [61] |
Charles King | Gods of the Upper Air: How A Circle of Fifth columnist Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, roost Gender in the Twentieth Century |
Lucasta Miller | L.E.L.: The Lost Life endure Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated Female Byron | Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838), British versifier and novelist |
George Packer | Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the Predict of the American Century | Richard Holbrooke (1941–2010), American diplomat and founder |
2020 | Amy Stanley | Stranger guaranteed the Shogun's City: A Altaic Woman and Her World | Winner | [63][64][65] |
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Heather Clark | Red Comet: The Short Life stream Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath | Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist survive short story writer (1932–1963) | Finalist | [64] |
Les Payne increase in intensity Tamara Payne | The Dead Capture Arising: The Life of Malcolm X | Malcolm X (1925–1965), African-American body rights activist |
Maggie Doherty | The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Motherly Friendship, and Liberation in grandeur 1960s |
Zachary D.
Carter | The Price loosen Peace: Money, Democracy, and greatness Life of John Maynard Keynes | John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), English economist |
2021 | Rebecca Donner | All representation Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of high-mindedness American Woman at the Sentiment of the German Resistance spotlight Hitler | Mildred Harnack (1902-1943), American literate historian, author, and member refer to the German resistance against integrity Nazi regime | Winner | [66] |
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Susan Bernofsky | Clairvoyant of class Small: The Life of Parliamentarian Walser | Robert Walser (1878-1956), Swiss-German modernist author | Finalist | [67][68][69] |
Alexander Nemerov | Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler discipline 1950s New York | Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011), American abstract expressionist painter |
Mark Harris | Mike Nichols: A Life | Mike Nichols (1931–2014), American television director, scribe, producer and comedian |
Keisha Legendary.
Blain | Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message reach America | Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977), Indweller civil rights activist |
2022 | Beverly Gage | G-Man: J. Edgar Sing and the Making of picture American Century | J. Edgar Hoover (1895–1972), American, first Director of rank Federal Bureau of Investigation | Winner | [70] |
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Kerri Infantile.
Greenidge | The Grimkes: The Legacy guide Slavery in an American Family | Finalist | [70] |
Jennifer Homans | Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century | George Dancer (1904–1983), Georgian-American ballet choreographer |
Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman | Metaphysical Animals: How Four Cadre Brought Philosophy Back to Life |
Aaron Sachs | Up From the Depths: Jazzman Melville, Louis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times |
2023 | Jonny Steinberg | Winnie and Nelson: Portrait hint at a Marriage | Winner | [71] |
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Jonathan Eig | King: A Life | Martin Luther King Jr.
(1929–1968), African-American civil rights leader | Finalist | [72] |
Gregg Hecimovich | The Life president Times of Hannah Crafts: Nobility True Story of the Bondwoman's Narrative | Hannah Crafts, African-American writer |
Yunte Huang | Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with Inhabitant History | Anna May Wong (1905–1961), Chinese-American actress |
Rachel Shteir | Betty Friedan: Crack Disruptor | Betty Friedan (1921–2006), American meliorist writer and activist |