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===2000s=== {| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" |+Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners and finalists, 2000-2009<ref name="Pulitzer-list" /> !Year !Author(s) !Title !Result ! |- style=background-color:lightyellow; ! rowspan="3" |[[2000 in literature|2000]] |{{sortname|last=Schiff|first=Stacy}} |''Vera, Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov'' |Winner |<ref name=":7" /> |- |{{sortname|last=Mason|first=Bobbie Ann}} |''Clear Springs: A Memoir'' |Finalist | |- |{{sortname|last=Sobel|first=Dava}} |''[[Galileo's Daughter|Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love]]'' |Finalist | |- style=background-color:lightyellow; ! rowspan="3" |[[2001 in literature|2001]] |{{sortname|last=Lewis|first=David Levering}} |''[[W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919β1963|W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963]]'' |Winner |<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2001-04-23 |title=Chabon, Ellis Win Pulitzers |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20010423/19025-chabon-ellis-win-pulitzers.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref> |- |{{sortname|last=Brands|first=H.W.}} |{{Sort|First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin|''The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin''}} |Finalist | |- |{{sortname|last=Wolff|first=Christoph}} |''Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician'' |Finalist | |- style=background-color:lightyellow; ! rowspan="3" |[[2002 in literature|2002]] |{{sortname|last=McCullough|first=David}} |''[[John Adams (book)|John Adams]]'' |Winner |<ref name=":6" /> |- |{{sortname|last=Carter|first=Jimmy}} |{{Sort|Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood|''An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood''}} |Finalist | |- |{{sortname|last=Smith|first=Jean Edward}} |''Grant'' |Finalist |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-09-26 |title=Obituary Note: Jean Edward Smith |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3587 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=December 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221224205626/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3587 |url-status=live }}</ref> |- style=background-color:lightyellow; ! rowspan="3" |[[2003 in literature|2003]] |{{sortname|last=Caro|first=Robert}} |''[[Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson]]'' |Winner | |- |{{sortname|last=Dawidoff|first=Nicholas}} |{{Sort|Fly Swatter|''The Fly Swatter: A Portrait of an Exceptional Character''}} |Finalist | |- |{{sortname|last=Lockwood|first=Lewis}} |''Beethoven: The Music and the Life'' |Finalist | |- style=background-color:lightyellow; ! rowspan="3" |[[2004 in literature|2004]] |{{sortname|last=Taubman|first=William}} |''[[Khrushchev: The Man and His Era]]'' |Winner | |- |{{sortname|last=Gleick|first=James}} |''Isaac Newton'' |Finalist | |- |{{sortname|last=Herrera|first=Hayden}} |''Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work'' |Finalist | |- style=background-color:lightyellow; ! rowspan="3" |[[2005 in literature|2005]] |{{sortname|last=Stevens|first=Mark|link=Mark Stevens (art critic)}} and [[Annalyn Swan]] |''[[de Kooning: An American Master]]'' |Winner | |- |{{sortname|last=Greenblatt|first=Stephen}} |''Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare'' |Finalist | |- |{{sortname|last=Souder|first=William}} |''Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America'' |Finalist | |- style=background-color:lightyellow; ! rowspan="3" |[[2006 in literature|2006]] |{{sortname|last=Bird|first=Kai}} and [[Martin J. Sherwin]] |''[[American Prometheus|American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer]]'' |Winner | |- |{{sortname|last=Didion|first=Joan}} |{{Sort|Year of Magical Thinking|''[[The Year of Magical Thinking]]''}} |Finalist | |- |{{sortname|last=Marshall|first=Megan}} |{{Sort|Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism|''The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism''}} |Finalist |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-02-15 |title=Awards: BIO Winner |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4170 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=February 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230207085548/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4170 |url-status=live }}</ref> |- style=background-color:lightyellow; ! rowspan="3" |[[2007 in literature|2007]] |{{sortname|last=Applegate|first=Debby}} |{{Sort|Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher|''[[The Most Famous Man in America|The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher]]''}} |Winner | |- |{{sortname|last=Cash|first=Arthur H.}} |''John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty'' |Finalist |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-01-11 |title=Obituary Notes: Arthur H. Cash; Michel DΓ©on |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2914 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=May 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518054715/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2914 |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |{{sortname|last=Nasaw|first=David}} |''Andrew Carnegie'' |Finalist | |- style=background-color:lightyellow; ! rowspan="3" |[[2008 in literature|2008]] |{{sortname|last=Matteson|first=John}} |''[[Eden's Outcasts|Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father]]'' |Winner | |- |{{sortname|last=Duberman|first=Martin}} |{{Sort|Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein|''The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein''}} |Finalist | |- |{{sortname|last=Leader|first=Zachary}} |{{Sort|Life of Kingsley Amis|''The Life of Kingsley Amis''}} |Finalist | |- style=background-color:lightyellow; ! rowspan="3" |[[2009 in literature|2009]] |{{sortname|last=Meacham|first=Jon}} |''[[American Lion (book)|American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House]]'' |Winner |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-04-21 |title=Awards: The Pulitzers; Orange Prize Shortlist |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=905 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=October 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002000124/http://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=905 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-04-20 |title=The 2009 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters and Drama |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/15142-the-2009-pulitzer-prizes-for-letters-and-drama.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref> |- |{{sortname|last=Brands|first=H.W.}} |''Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt'' |Finalist | |- |{{sortname|last=Coll|first=Steve}} |{{Sort|Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century|''[[The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century]]''}} |Finalist | |}
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