Editing Pulitzer Prize for Biography (section)

=== 1950s-1970s ===
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners, 1950-1979<ref name="Pulitzer-list" />
!Year
!Author
!Title
!Ref.
|-
![[1950 in literature|1950]]
|{{sortname|last=Bemis|first=Samuel Flagg}}
|''John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy''
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|-
![[1951 in literature|1951]]
|{{sortname|last=Coit|first=Margaret Louise}}
|''John C. Calhoun: American Portrait''
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|-
![[1952 in literature|1952]]
|{{sortname|last=Pusey|first=Merlo J.}}
|''Charles Evans Hughes''
|
|-
![[1953 in literature|1953]]
|{{sortname|last=Mays|first=David J.}}
|''Edmund Pendleton 1721–1803''
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|-
![[1954 in literature|1954]]
|{{sortname|last=Lindbergh|first=Charles A.}}
|{{Sort|Spirit of St. Louis|''[[The Spirit of St. Louis (book)|The Spirit of St. Louis]]''}}
|
|-
![[1955 in literature|1955]]
|{{sortname|last=White|first=William S.}}
|{{Sort|Taft Story|''The Taft Story''}}
|
|-
![[1956 in literature|1956]]
|{{sortname|last=Hamlin|first=Talbot Faulkner}}
|''Benjamin Henry Latrobe''
|
|-
![[1957 in literature|1957]]
|{{sortname|last=Kennedy|first=John F.}}
|''[[Profiles in Courage]]''
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-06-02 |title=Rediscover: Profiles in Courage |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=615 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=January 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230127103240/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=615 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
![[1958 in literature|1958]]
|{{sortname|last=Freeman|first=Douglas Southall}} with [[John Alexander Carroll]] and [[Mary Wells Ashworth]]
|''George Washington'', vols. I-VII
|
|-
![[1959 in literature|1959]]
|{{sortname|last=Walworth|first=Arthur}}
|''Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet''
|
|-
![[1960 in literature|1960]]
|{{sortname|last=Morison|first=Samuel Eliot}}
|''John Paul Jones''
|
|-
![[1961 in literature|1961]]
|{{sortname|last=Donald|first=David|link=David Herbert Donald}}
|''Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War''
|
|-
![[1962 in literature|1962]]
! colspan="2" |No award presented<ref name="none1962">In 1962 the Pulitzer board awarded the prize to [[W.A. Swanberg]] for ''Citizen Hearst''. The trustees of [[Columbia University]], who administer the prize, overturned the award, refusing to honor a book that took a critical look at [[William Randolph Hearst]]. {{cite news |author=McDowell, Edwin |date=May 11, 1984 |title=Publishing: Pulitzer Controversies |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/11/books/publishing-pulitzer-controversies.html |url-status=live |access-date=January 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090423153050/https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/11/books/publishing-pulitzer-controversies.html |archive-date=April 23, 2009}}</ref>
!
|-
![[1963 in literature|1963]]
|{{Sortname|Leon|Edel}}
|''Henry James''
|
|-
![[1964 in literature|1964]]
|{{sortname|last=Bate|first=Walter Jackson}}
|''John Keats''
|
|-
![[1965 in literature|1965]]
|{{Sortname|Ernest|Samuels}}
|''Henry Adams,'' 3 vols.
|
|-
![[1966 in literature|1966]]
|{{sortname|last=Schlesinger, Jr.|first=Arthur M.}}
|{{Sort|Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House|''[[A Thousand Days|A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House]]''}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-03-01 |title=Notes: Schlesinger Dies; New Bookstore Collective |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=386 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820024153/http://shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=386 |archive-date=August 20, 2016 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref>
|-
![[1967 in literature|1967]]
|{{Sortname|Justin|Kaplan}}
|''Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain''
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-03-05 |title=Obituary Notes: Justin Kaplan; Sherwin B. Nuland |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2200 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230207221246/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2200 |archive-date=February 7, 2023 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref>
|-
![[1968 in literature|1968]]
|{{sortname|last=Kennan|first=George F.}}
|''Memoirs''
|
|-
![[1969 in literature|1969]]
|{{sortname|last=Reid|first=Benjamin Lawrence}}
|{{Sort|Man from New York: John Quinn and His Friends|''The Man from New York: John Quinn and His Friends''}}
|
|-
![[1970 in literature|1970]]
|{{sortname|last=Williams|first=Thomas Harry}}
|''[[Huey Long (biography)|Huey Long]]''
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2006-09-15 |title=Share the Wealth of All the King's Men |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=281 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705221340/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=281 |archive-date=July 5, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref>
|-
![[1971 in literature|1971]]
|{{Sortname|Lawrance|Thompson}}
|''Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915–1938,''
|
|-
![[1972 in literature|1972]]
|{{sortname|last=Lash|first=Joseph P.}}
|''[[Eleanor and Franklin (book)|Eleanor and Franklin]]''
|
|-
![[1973 in literature|1973]]
|{{sortname|last=Swanberg|first=W. A.}}
|''Luce and His Empire''
|
|-
![[1974 in literature|1974]]
|{{Sortname|Louis|Sheaffer}}
|''O'Neill, Son and Artist''
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|-
![[1975 in literature|1975]]
|{{Sortname|Robert|Caro}}
|{{Sort|Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York|''[[The Power Broker|The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York]]''}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-08-08 |title=Rediscover: The Power Broker |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=635 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206023618/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=635 |archive-date=February 6, 2023 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref>
|-
![[1976 in literature|1976]]
|{{sortname|last=Lewis|first=R. W. B.}}
|''Edith Wharton: A Biography''
|
|-
![[1977 in literature|1977]]
|{{sortname|last=Mack|first=John E.}}
|{{Sort|Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence|''A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence''}}
|
|-
![[1978 in literature|1978]]
|{{sortname|last=Bate|first=Walter Jackson}}
|''Samuel Johnson''
|
|-
![[1979 in literature|1979]]
|{{Sortname|Leonard|Baker}}
|''Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews''
|
|}