Editing Pulitzer Prize for Biography (section)

=== 1980s ===
Entries from this point on include the finalists listed after the winner for each year.
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|+Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners and finalists, 1980-1989<ref name="Pulitzer-list" />
!Year
!Author
!Title
!Result
!Ref.
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="4" |[[1980 in literature|1980]]
|{{sortname|last=Morris|first=Edmund|link=Edmund Morris (writer)}}
|{{Sort|Rise of Theodore Roosevelt|''[[The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt]]''}}
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Samuels|first=Ernest}}
|''Bernard Berenson, The Making of a Connoisseur''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Secrest|first=Meryle}}
|''Being Bernard Berenson''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Wolff|first=Geoffrey}}
|{{Sort|Duke of Deception|''The Duke of Deception''}}
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1981 in literature|1981]]
|{{sortname|last=Massie|first=Robert K.}}
|''[[Peter the Great: His Life and World]]''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-12-10 |title=Rediscover: Robert K. Massie |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=875 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=February 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230207020237/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=875 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-12-04 |title=Obituary Note: Robert K. Massie |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3633 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=September 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928134904/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3633 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Kaplan|first=Justin}}
|''Walt Whitman: A Life''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Steel|first=Ronald}}
|''Walter Lippmann and the American Century''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1982 in literature|1982]]
|{{sortname|last=McFeely|first=William S.}}
|''Grant: A Biography''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-12-20 |title=Obituary Note: William McFeely |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3645 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=May 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522195552/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3645 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Allen|first=Gay Wilson}}
|''Waldo Emerson''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=McCullough|first=David}}
|''[[Mornings on Horseback]]''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1983 in literature|1983]]
|{{sortname|last=Baker|first=Russell}}
|''Growing Up''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-01-24 |title=Obituary Note: Russell Baker |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3417 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=April 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230430020840/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3417 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Morgan|first=Ted|link=Ted Morgan (writer)}}
|''Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry, 1874–1915''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Smith|first=Richard Norton}}
|''Thomas E. Dewey and His Times''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1984 in literature|1984]]
|{{sortname|last=Harlan|first=Louis R.}}
|''Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Kaplan|first=Fred|link=Fred Kaplan (biographer)}}
|''Thomas Carlyle: A Biography''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Manning|first=Kenneth}}
|''[[Black Apollo of Science|Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just]]''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1985 in literature|1985]]
|{{sortname|last=Silverman|first=Kenneth}}
|{{Sort|Life and Times of Cotton Mather|''The Life and Times of Cotton Mather''}}
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-07-12 |title=Obituary Note: Kenneth Silverman |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3041 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=October 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017133949/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3041 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Feinstein|first=Howard M.}}
|''Becoming William James''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Mott|first=Michael}}
|{{Sort|Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton|''The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton''}}
|Finalist
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-10-18 |title=Obituary Note: Michael Mott |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3602 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=January 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230130090644/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3602 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1986 in literature|1986]]
|{{sortname|last=Frank|first=Elizabeth}}
|''Louise Bogan: A Portrait''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Franklin|first=John Hope}}
|''George Washington Williams: A Biography''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Scheps Weinstein|first=Frida}}
|{{Sort|Hidden Childhood: A Jewish Girl's Sanctuary in a French Convent, 1942–1945|''A Hidden Childhood: A Jewish Girl's Sanctuary in a French Convent, 1942–1945''}}
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="4" |[[1987 in literature|1987]]
|{{sortname|last=Garrow|first=David J.}}
|''[[Bearing the Cross|Bearing The Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference]]''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Frank|first=Joseph|link=Joseph Frank (writer)}}
|''Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860–1865''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Richards|first=Leonard L.}}
|{{Sort|Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams|''The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams''}}
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Sperber|first=A.M.}}
|''Murrow: His Life and Times''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1988 in literature|1988]]
|{{sortname|last=Donald|first=David Herbert}}
|''[[Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe]]''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Lynn|first=Kenneth S.}}
|''Hemingway''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=McCormick|first=John Owen}}
|''George Santayana: A Biography''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="4" |[[1989 in literature|1989]]
|{{sortname|last=Ellmann|first=Richard}}
|''Oscar Wilde''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Gay|first=Peter}}
|''[[Freud: A Life for Our Time]]''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Rampersad|first=Arnold}}
|{{Sort|Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II, 1941–1967: I Dream a World|''The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II, 1941–1967: I Dream a World''}}
|Finalist
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Houston |date=2012-01-13 |title=Awards: BIO Winner |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1642 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=May 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518071335/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1642 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Sheehan|first=Neil}}
|{{Sort|Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam|''[[A Bright Shining Lie|A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam]]''}}
|Finalist
|
|}