Nagroda Pulitzera w dziedzinie biografii i autobiografii
Medal Nagrody Pulitzera
Julia Ward Howe, bohaterka pierwszej nagrodzonej biografii
Theodore Roosevelt, prezydent Stanów Zjednoczonych, był bohaterem książki wyróżnionej w 1932
Nagroda Pulitzera w dziedzinie biografii i autobiografii – jedna z kategorii Nagrody Pulitzera[1], przyznawana za wybitne osiągnięcia w dziedzinie twórczości żywotopisarskiej. Wyróżnienia w tej kategorii są przyznawane od początku istnienia ufundowanej przez Josepha Pulitzera, czyli od 1917[2]. Bohaterami nagrodzonych książek są przede wszystkim osobistości amerykańskiego życia publicznego, w szczególności politycy.
Pierwsze lata:
| Data | Autor | Tytuł |
|---|---|---|
| 1917 | Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Howe Hall | Julia Ward Howe[3] |
| 1918 | William Cabell Bruce | Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed[4] |
| 1919 | Henry Adams | The Education of Henry Adams |
| 1920 | Albert J. Beveridge | The Life of John Marshall |
Lata dwudzieste:
| Data | Autor | Tytuł |
|---|---|---|
| 1921 | Edward Bok | The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After |
| 1922 | Hamlin Garland | A Daughter of the Middle Border |
| 1923 | Burton J. Hendrick | The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page |
| 1924 | Michael Idvorsky Pupin | From Immigrant to Inventor |
| 1925 | M.A. De Wolfe Howe | Barrett Wendell and His Letters |
| 1926 | Harvey Cushing | The Life of Sir William Osler |
| 1927 | Emory Holloway | Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative |
| 1928 | Charles Edward Russell | The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas |
| 1929 | Burton J. Hendrick | The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, 1855–1913 |
| 1930 | Marquis James | The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston |
Lata trzydzieste:
| Data | Autor | Tytuł |
|---|---|---|
| 1931 | Henry James | Charles W. Eliot: Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University, 1869–1909 |
| 1932 | Henry F. Pringle | Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography |
| 1933 | Allan Nevins | Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage |
| 1934 | Tyler Dennett | John Hay: From Poetry to Politics |
| 1935 | Douglas S. Freeman | R.E. Lee: A Biography |
| 1936 | Ralph Barton Perry | The Thought and Character of William James, As Revealed in Unpublished Correspondence and Notes, Together with His Published Writings |
| 1937 | Allan Nevins | Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Administration |
| 1938 | Marquis James | Andrew Jackson (ex aequo) |
| 1938 | Odell Shepard | Pedlar’s Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott |
| 1939 | Carl Van Doren | Benjamin Franklin |
| 1940 | Ray Stannard Baker | Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters: War Leader, vol. 7; Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters: Armistice, vol. 8 |
Lata czterdzieste:
| Data | Autor | Tytuł |
|---|---|---|
| 1941 | Ola Elizabeth Winslow | Jonathan Edwards, 1703–1758: A Biography |
| 1942 | Forrest Wilson | Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| 1943 | Samuel Eliot Morison | Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus |
| 1944 | Carleton Mabee | The American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel F.B. Morse |
| 1945 | Russell Blaine Nye | George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel |
| 1946 | Linnie Marsh Wolfe | Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir |
| 1947 | William Allen White | The Autobiography of William Allen White |
| 1948 | Margaret Clapp | Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow |
| 1949 | Robert E. Sherwood | Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History |
| 1950 | Samuel Flagg Bemis | John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy |
Lata pięćdziesiąte:
| Data | Autor | Tytuł |
|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Margaret Louise Coit | John C. Calhoun: American Portrait |
| 1952 | Merlo J. Pusey | Charles Evans Hughes |
| 1953 | David J. Mays | Edmund Pendleton, 1721–1803: A Biography |
| 1954 | Charles A. Lindbergh | The Spirit of St. Louis |
| 1955 | William S. White | The Taft Story |
| 1956 | Talbot Hamlin | Benjamin Henry Latrobe |
| 1957 | John F. Kennedy | Profiles in Courage[5] |
| 1958 | Douglas Southall Freeman, John Alexander Carroll, Mary Wells Ashworth | George Washington |
| 1959 | Arthur Walworth | Woodrow Wilson: American Prophet |
| 1960 | Samuel Eliot Morison | John Paul Jones: A Sailor’s Biography |
Lata sześćdziesiąte:
| Data | Autor | Tytuł |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | David Herbert Donald | Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War |
| 1962 | Nagrody nie przyznano | |
| 1963 | Leon Edel | Henry James: The Conquest of London, 1870–1883, vol. 2; Henry James: The Middle Years, 1882–1895, vol. 3 |
| 1964 | Walter Jackson Bate | John Keats |
| 1965 | Ernest Samuels | Henry Adams |
| 1966 | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. | A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House |
| 1967 | Justin Kaplan | Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain |
| 1968 | George F. Kennan | Memoirs: 1925–1950 |
| 1969 | Benjamin Lawrence Reid | The Man from New York: John Quinn and His Friends |
| 1970 | T. Harry Williams | Huey Long |
Lata siedemdziesiąte:
| Data | Autor | Tytuł |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Lawrance Thompson | Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915–1938 |
| 1972 | Joseph P. Lash | Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt’s Private Papers |
| 1973 | W.A. Swanberg | Luce and His Empire |
| 1974 | Louis Sheaffer | O’Neill, Son and Artist |
| 1975 | Robert A. Caro | The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York |
| 1976 | R.W.B. Lewis | Edith Wharton: A Biography |
| 1977 | John E. Mack | A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T.E. Lawrence |
| 1978 | Walter Jackson Bate | Samuel Johnson |
| 1979 | Leonard Baker | Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews |
| 1980 | Edmund Morris | The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt |
Lata osiemdziesiąte:
| Data | Autor | Tytuł |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Robert K. Massie | Peter the Great: His Life and World |
| 1982 | William McFeely | Grant: A Biography |
| 1983 | Russell Baker | Growing Up |
| 1984 | Louis R. Harlan | Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915 |
| 1985 | Kenneth Silverman | The Life and Times of Cotton Mather |
| 1986 | Elizabeth Frank | Louise Bogan: A Portrait |
| 1987 | David J. Garrow | Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
| 1988 | David Herbert Donald | Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe |
| 1989 | Richard Ellmann | Oscar Wilde |
| 1990 | Sebastian de Grazia | Machiavelli in Hell |
Lata dziewięćdziesiąte:
| Data | Autor | Tytuł |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith | Jackson Pollock: An American Saga |
| 1992 | Lewis B. Puller Jr. | Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet |
| 1993 | David McCullough | Truman |
| 1994 | David Levering Lewis | W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919 |
| 1995 | Joan D. Hedrick | Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life |
| 1996 | Jack Miles | God: A Biography |
| 1997 | Frank McCourt | Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir |
| 1998 | Katharine Graham | Personal History |
| 1999 | A. Scott Berg | Lindbergh |
| 2000 | Stacy Schiff | Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) |
Pierwsze dziesięciolecie XXI wieku:
| Data | Autor | Tytuł |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | David Levering Lewis | W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963 |
| 2002 | David McCullough | John Adams |
| 2003 | Robert A. Caro | The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate, vol. 3 |
| 2004 | William Taubman | Khrushchev: The Man and His Era |
| 2005 | Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan | De Kooning: An American Master |
| 2006 | Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin | American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| 2007 | Debby Applegate | The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher |
| 2008 | John Matteson | Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father |
| 2009 | Jon Meacham | American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House |
| 2010 | T.J. Stiles | The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt |
Drugie dziesięciolecie XXI wieku:
| Data | Autor | Tytuł |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Ron Chernow | Washington: A Life |
| 2012 | John Lewis Gaddis | George F. Kennan: An American Life |
| 2013 | Tom Reiss | The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo |
| 2014 | Megan Marshall | Margaret Fuller: A New American Life |
| 2015 | David I. Kertzer | The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe |
| 2016 | William Finnegan | Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life |
| 2017 | Hisham Matar | The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between |
| 2018 | Caroline Fraser | Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| 2019 | Jeffrey C. Stewart | The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke[6] |
| 2020 | Benjamin Moser | Sontag: Her Life and Work[7] |
Trzecie dziesięciolecie XXI wieku:
| Data | Autor | Tytuł |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Les Payne i Tamara Payne | The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X[8] |
| 2022 | Winfred Rembert i Erin I. Kelly | Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South[9] |
Zobacz też
- Nagroda Pulitzera w dziedzinie poezji
- Nagroda Pulitzera w dziedzinie dramatu
- Nagroda Pulitzera w dziedzinie historii
- Nagroda Pulitzera w dziedzinie literatury niefikcjonalnej
- Nagroda Pulitzera w dziedzinie beletrystyki
Przypisy
- ↑ Pulitzera Nagroda, [w:] Encyklopedia PWN [online] [dostęp 2017-07-29].
- ↑ Pulitzer Prize, [w:] Encyclopædia Britannica [online] [dostęp 2017-07-29] (ang.).
- ↑ 1917 Pulitzer Prizes. pulitzer.org. [dostęp 2017-07-29]. (ang.).
- ↑ William Cabell Bruce. findagrave.com. [dostęp 2017-07-30]. (ang.).
- ↑ John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage (1956). senate.gov. [dostęp 2017-07-30]. (ang.).
- ↑ Announcement of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Pulitzer, 15 kwietnia 2019 [dostęp 2019-04-16] (ang.).
- ↑ Benjamin Moser, The Pulitzer Prizes [dostęp 2020-05-05].
- ↑ Abigail Freeman, Pulitzer Prizes 2021: The Full List Of Winners, Forbes, 11 czerwca 2021 [dostęp 2021-06-11] (ang.).
- ↑ Pulitzer Prizes 2022: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists, „The New York Times”, 9 maja 2022, ISSN 0362-4331 [dostęp 2022-05-13] (ang.).