| Év |
Életrajz vagy önéletrajz |
Szerző |
| 2012 |
George F. Kennan: An American Life |
John Lewis Gaddis |
| Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution |
Mary Gabriel |
| Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention |
Manning Marable |
| 2011 |
Washington: A Life |
Ron Chernow |
| The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century |
Alan Brinkley |
| Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon |
Michael O’Brien |
| 2010 |
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt |
T. J. Stiles |
| Woodrow Wilson: A Biography |
John Milton Cooper, Jr. |
| Cheever: A Life |
Blake Bailey |
| 2009 |
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House |
Jon Meacham |
| Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
H. W. Brands |
| The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century |
Steve Coll |
| 2008 |
Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father |
John Matteson |
| The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein |
Martin Duberman |
| The Life of Kingsley Amis |
Zachary Leader |
| 2007 |
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher |
Debby Applegate |
| John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty |
Arthur H. Cash |
| Andrew Carnegie |
David Nasaw |
| 2006 |
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer |
Kai Bird és Martin J. Sherwin |
| The Year of Magical Thinking |
Joan Didion |
| The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism |
Megan Marshall |
| 2005 |
de Kooning: An American Master |
Mark Stevens és Annalyn Swan |
| Géniusz földi pályán: Shakespeare módszere (Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare) |
Stephen Greenblatt |
| Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America |
William Souder |
| 2004 |
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era |
William Taubman |
| Isaac Newton |
James Gleick |
| Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work |
Hayden Herrera |
| 2003 |
Master of the Senate |
Robert A. Caro |
| The Fly Swatter |
Nicholas Dawidoff |
| Beethoven: The Music and the Life |
Lewis Lockwood |
| 2002 |
John Adams |
David McCullough |
| An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood |
Jimmy Carter |
| Grant |
Jean Edward Smith |
| 2001 |
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 |
David Levering Lewis |
| The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin |
H. W. Brands |
| Johann Sebastian Bach: A tudós zeneszerző (Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician) |
Christoph Wolff |
| 2000 |
Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) |
Stacy Schiff |
| Clear Springs: A Memoir |
Bobbie Ann Mason |
| Galilei lánya: Hiteles memoár a tudományról, a bizalomról és a szeretetről (Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love) |
Dava Sobel |
| 1999 |
Lindbergh |
A. Scott Berg |
| At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life |
Francine du Plessix Gray |
| Egy csodálatos elme (A Beautiful Mind) |
Sylvia Nasar |
| 1998 |
Personal History |
Katharine Graham |
| Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public-Private Life |
James H. Jones |
| Whittaker Chambers: A Biography |
Sam Tanenhaus |
| 1997 |
Angyal a lépcsőn: Önéletrajz 19 éves koromig (Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir) |
Frank McCourt |
| In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country |
Kim Barnes |
| Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 1, 1819-1851 |
Hershel Parker |
| 1996 |
God: A Biography |
Jack Miles |
| John Sloan: Painter and Rebel |
John Loughery |
| Mozart (Mozart: A Life) |
Maynard Solomon |
| 1995 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life |
Joan D. Hedrick |
| Hugo Black: A Biography |
Roger K. Newman |
| Saint-Exupery: A Biography |
Stacy Schiff |
| 1994 |
W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 |
David Levering Lewis |
| In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding |
Deborah Baker |
| Genet: A Biography |
Deborah Baker |
| 1993 |
Truman |
David McCullough |
| Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman |
James Gleick |
| Kissinger életrajz (Kissinger) |
Walter Isaacson |
| 1992 |
Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet |
Lewis B. Puller |
| Orwell: The Authorized Biography |
Michael Shelden |
| Frederick Douglass |
William S. McFeely |
| 1991 |
Jackson Pollock |
Steven Naifeh és Gregory White Smith |
| The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918 |
Patricia O’Toole |
| Alfred I. Du Pont: The Man and His Family |
Joseph Frazier Wall |
| 1990 |
Machiavelli in Hell |
Sebastian de Grazia |
| The Road From Coorain |
Jill Ker Conway |
| Clear Pictures: First Loves, First Guides |
Reynolds Price |
| A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt |
Geoffrey C. Ward |
| 1989 |
Oscar Wilde |
Richard Ellmann |
| Freud: A Life For Our Time |
Peter Gay |
| The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II, 1941-1967: I Dream a World |
Peter Gay |
| A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam |
Neil Sheehan |
| 1988 |
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe |
David Herbert Donald |
| Hemingway |
Kenneth S. Lynn |
| George Santayana: A Biography |
John McCormick |
| 1987 |
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
David J. Garrow |
| Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 |
Joseph Frank |
| The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams |
Leonard L. Richards |
| Murrow: His Life and Times |
A. M. Sperber |
| 1986 |
Louise Bogan: A Portrait |
Elizabeth Frank |
| George Washington Williams: A Biography |
John Hope Franklin |
| A Hidden Childhood: A Jewish Girl’s Sanctuary in a French Convent, 1942-1945 |
Frida Scheps Weinstein |
| 1985 |
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather |
Kenneth Silverman |
| Becoming William James |
Howard M. Feinstein |
| The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton |
Michael Mott |
| 1984 |
Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 |
Louis R. Harlan |
| Thomas Carlyle: A Biography |
Fred Kaplan |
| Black Apollo of Science: the Life of Ernest Everett |
Kenneth Manning |
| 1983 |
Growing Up |
Russell Baker |
| Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry, 1874-1915 |
Ted Morgan |
| Thomas E. Dewey and His Times |
Richard Norton Smith |
| 1982 |
Grant: A Biography |
William McFeely |
| Waldo Emerson |
Gay Wilson Allen |
| Mornings on Horseback |
David McCullough |
| 1981 |
Peter the Great: His Life and World |
Robert K. Massie |
| Walt Whitman: A Life |
Justin Kaplan |
| Walter Lippmann and the American Century |
Ronald Steel |
| 1980 |
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt |
Edmund Morris |
| Bernard Berenson, The Making of a Connoisseur |
Ernest Samuels |
| Being Bernard Berenson |
Meryle Secrest |
| The Duke of Deception |
Geoffrey Wolff |
| 1979 |
Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews |
Leonard Baker |
| 1978 |
Samuel Johnson |
Walter Jackson Bate |
| 1977 |
A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence |
John E. Mack |
| 1976 |
Edith Wharton: A Biography |
R. W. B. Lewis |
| 1975 |
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York |
Robert Caro |
| 1974 |
O’Neill, Son and Artist |
Louis Sheaffer |
| 1973 |
Luce and His Empire |
W. A. Swanberg |
| 1972 |
Eleanor and Franklin |
Joseph P. Lash |
| 1971 |
Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915-1938 |
Lawrance Thompson |
| 1970 |
Huey Long |
T. Harry Williams |
| 1969 |
The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends |
Benjamin Lawrence Reid |
| 1968 |
Memoirs |
George F. Kennan |
| 1967 |
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain |
Justin Kaplan |
| 1966 |
A Thousand Days |
Arthur M. Schlesinger |
| 1965 |
Henry Adams |
Ernest Samuels |
| 1964 |
John Keats |
Walter Jackson Bate |
| 1963 |
Henry James |
Leon Edel |
| 1962 |
Nem osztottak díjat |
| 1961 |
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War |
David Donald |
| 1960 |
John Paul Jones |
Samuel Eliot Morison |
| 1959 |
Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet |
Arthur Walworth |
| 1958 |
George Washington |
Douglas Southall Freeman |
| 1957 |
Profiles in Courage |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| 1956 |
Benjamin Henry Latrobe |
Talbot Faulkner Hamlin |
| 1955 |
The Taft Story |
William S. White |
| 1954 |
The Spirit of St. Louis |
Charles A. Lindbergh |
| 1953 |
Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803 |
David J. Mays |
| 1952 |
Charles Evans Hughes |
Merlo J. Pusey |
| 1951 |
John C. Calhoun: American Portrait |
Margaret Louise Coit |
| 1950 |
John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy |
Samuel Flagg Bemis |
| 1949 |
Roosevelt és Hopkins (Roosevelt and Hopkins) |
Robert E. Sherwood |
| 1948 |
Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow |
Margaret Clapp |
| 1947 |
The Autobiography of William Allen White |
William Allen White |
| 1946 |
Son of the Wilderness |
Linnie Marsh Wolfe |
| 1945 |
George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel |
Russell Blaine Nye |
| 1944 |
The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse |
Carleton Mabee |
| 1943 |
Admiral of the Ocean Sea |
Samuel Eliot Morison |
| 1942 |
Crusader in Crinoline |
Forrest Wilson |
| 1941 |
Jonathan Edward |
Ola Elizabeth Winslow |
| 1940 |
Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII |
Ray Stannard Baker |
| 1939 |
Benjamin Franklin |
Carl Van Doren |
| 1938 |
Andrew Jackson |
Marquis James |
| Pedlar’s Progress |
Odell Shepard |
| 1937 |
Hamilton Fish |
Allan Nevins |
| 1936 |
The Thought and Character of William James |
Ralph Barton Perry |
| 1935 |
R. E. Lee |
Douglas S. Freeman |
| 1934 |
John Hay |
Tyler Dennett |
| 1933 |
Grover Cleveland |
Allan Nevins |
| 1932 |
Theodore Roosevelt |
Henry F. Pringle |
| 1931 |
Charles W. Eliot |
Henry James |
| 1930 |
The Raven |
Marquis James |
| 1929 |
The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page |
Burton J. Hendrick |
| 1928 |
The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas |
Charles Edward Russell |
| 1927 |
Whitman |
Emory Holloway |
| 1926 |
The Life of Sir William Osler |
Harvey Cushing |
| 1925 |
Barrett Wendell and His Letters |
M. A. Dewolfe Howe |
| 1924 |
From Immigrant to Inventor |
Michael Idvorsky Pupin |
| 1923 |
The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page |
Burton J. Hendrick |
| 1922 |
A Daughter of the Middle Border |
Hamlin Garland |
| 1921 |
The Americanization of Edward Bok |
Edward Bok |
| 1920 |
The Life of John Marshall |
Albert J. Beveridge |
| 1919 |
The Education of Henry Adams |
Henry Adams |
| 1918 |
Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed |
William Cabell Bruce |
| 1917 |
Julia Ward Howe |
Laura E. Richards és Maude Howe Elliott |
