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===2010s=== {| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" |+Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners and finalists, 2010-2019<ref name="Pulitzer-list" /> !Year !Author(s) !Title !Result !Ref. |- style=background-color:lightyellow; ! rowspan="3" |[[2010 in literature|2010]] |{{sortname|last=Stiles|first=T. J.}} | {{Sort|First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt|''[[The First Tycoon|The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt]]''}} |Winner |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-04-13 |title=Awards: The Pulitzers |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1160 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=August 20, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820022347/http://shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1160 |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |{{sortname|last=Bailey|first=Blake}} |''Cheever: A Life'' |Finalist | |- |{{sortname|last=Cooper, Jr.|first=John Milton}} |''Woodrow Wilson: A Biography'' |Finalist | |- style=background-color:lightyellow; ! rowspan="3" |[[2011 in literature|2011]] |{{sortname|last=Chernow|first=Ron}} | ''[[Washington: A Life]]'' |Winner |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-06-03 |title=Rediscover: Alexander Hamilton |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=511 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=February 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230207081849/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=511 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-04-19 |title=Awards: Pulitzer, Lukas Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1443 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=February 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206034500/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1443 |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |{{sortname|last=Brinkley|first=Alan}} |{{Sort|Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century|''The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century''}} |Finalist | |- |{{sortname|last=O'Brien|first=Michael|link=Michael O'Brien (historian)}} |''Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon'' |Finalist | |- style=background-color:lightyellow; ! rowspan="3" |[[2012 in literature|2012]] |{{sortname|last=Gaddis|first=John Lewis}} | ''[[George F. Kennan: An American Life]]'' |Winner |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-04-17 |title=Awards: Pulitzer Winners; Orange Prize Shortlist |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1718 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=October 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221028053548/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1718 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":8">{{Cite web |last=Habash |first=Gabe |date=2012-04-16 |title=2012 Pulitzer Prize: No Fiction Award, Jurors 'Shocked' |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/51542-2012-pulitzer-prize-no-fiction-award-jurors-shocked.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en |archive-date=January 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119150319/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/51542-2012-pulitzer-prize-no-fiction-award-jurors-shocked.html |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |{{sortname|last=Gabriel|first=Mary|link=Mary Gabriel (author)}} |''Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution'' |Finalist |<ref name=":8" /> |- |{{sortname|last=Marable|first=Manning}} |''[[Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention]]'' |Finalist |<ref name=":8" /> |- style=background-color:lightyellow; ! rowspan="3" |[[2013 in literature|2013]] |{{sortname|last=Reiss|first=Tom}} | {{Sort|Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo|''[[The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo]]''}} |Winner |<ref name=":9">{{Cite web |last=Habash |first=Gabe |date=2013-04-15 |title=2013 Pulitzer Prize: 'Orphan Master' Brings Fiction Prize Back |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/56832-2013-pulitzer-prize-orphan-master-brings-fiction-prize-back.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126191934/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/56832-2013-pulitzer-prize-orphan-master-brings-fiction-prize-back.html |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |{{sortname|last=Gorra|first=Michael}} |''Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece'' |Finalist |<ref name=":9" /> |- |{{sortname|last=Nasaw|first=David}} |{{Sort|Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy|''The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy''}} |Finalist |<ref name=":9" /> |- style=background-color:lightyellow; ! rowspan="3" |[[2014 in literature|2014]] |{{sortname|last=Marshall|first=Megan}} | ''Margaret Fuller: A New American Life'' |Winner |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-04-15 |title=Awards: Pulitzer Winners; Thwaites Wainwright Nature & Travel Writing |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2229 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=March 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310022608/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2229 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-04-14 |title=Tartt, Fagin Take 2014 Pulitzers |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/61855-tartt-fagin-take-2014-pulitzers.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en |archive-date=November 10, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110152417/http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/61855-tartt-fagin-take-2014-pulitzers.html |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |{{sortname|last=Damrosch|first=Leo}} |''Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World'' |Finalist | |- |{{sortname|last=Sperber|first=Jonathan}} |''Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life'' |Finalist | |- style=background-color:lightyellow; ! rowspan="3" |[[2015 in literature|2015]] |{{sortname|last=Kertzer|first=David I.}} | {{Sort|Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe|''[[The Pope and Mussolini|The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe]]''}} |Winner |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-04-24 |title=Media Heat: Pulitzer-Winner David I. Kertzer on Fresh Air |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2493 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=July 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220719231717/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2493 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-04-21 |title=Doerr, Kolbert Among 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2490 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness ]] |archive-date=January 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128034004/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2490 |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |{{sortname|last=Brothers|first=Thomas}} |''Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism'' |Finalist | |- |{{sortname|last=Kotkin|first=Stephen}} |''[[Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928]]'' |Finalist | |- style=background-color:lightyellow; ! rowspan="3" |[[2016 in literature|2016]] |{{sortname|last=Finnegan|first=William}} | ''Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life'' |Winner |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-04-19 |title=Debut Novel Among 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2735 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=March 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230302135954/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2735 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-11-29 |title=Awards: William Hill Sports Book |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2889 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=March 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230312023318/https://shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2889 |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |{{sortname|last=Alexander|first=Elizabeth|link=Elizabeth Alexander (poet)}} |{{Sort|Light of the World: A Memoir|''The Light of the World: A Memoir''}} |Finalist | |- |{{sortname|last=Stiles|first=T. J. }} |''[[Custer's Trials|Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America]]'' |Finalist | |- style=background-color:lightyellow; ! rowspan="3" |[[2017 in literature|2017]] |{{sortname|last=Matar|first=Hisham}} | {{Sort|Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between|''[[The Return (memoir)|The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between]]''}} |Winner |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-04-11 |title=The Underground Railroad Among Pulitzer Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2977 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=January 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119025053/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2977 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Maher |first=John |date=2017-04-10 |title=Whitehead, Thompson Among 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/73303-pulitzer-prizes-2017.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en |archive-date=August 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808033829/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/73303-pulitzer-prizes-2017.html |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |{{sortname|last=Faludi|first=Susan}} |''[[In the Darkroom]]'' |Finalist | |- |{{sortname|last=Kalanithi|first=Paul}} |''[[When Breath Becomes Air]]'' |Finalist | |- style=background-color:lightyellow; ! rowspan="3" |[[2018 in literature|2018]] |{{sortname|last=Fraser|first=Caroline}} | ''[[Prairie Fires|Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder]]'' |Winner |<ref name=":4">{{cite web |title=2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2018 |website=[[Pulitzer Prize]] |access-date=April 16, 2019 |archive-date=September 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190911080447/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2018 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-04-17 |title=Andrew Sean Greer, James Forman Jr. Among Pulitzer Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3229 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=July 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701162047/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3229 |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |{{sortname|last=Farrell|first=John A.}} |''Richard Nixon: The Life'' |Finalist |<ref name=":4" /> |- |{{sortname|last=Redfield Jamison|first=Kay}} |''Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character'' |Finalist |<ref name=":4" /> |- style=background-color:lightyellow; ! rowspan="3" |[[2019 in literature|2019]] |{{sortname|last=Stewart|first=Jeffrey C.}} | {{Sort|New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke|''[[The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke]]''}} |Winner |<ref name=":5">{{cite web |title=2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2019 |website=[[Pulitzer Prize]] |access-date=April 16, 2019 |archive-date=July 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190726100152/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2019 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-04-16 |title=Richard Powers, David W. Blight Among Pulitzer Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3474 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=January 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126034939/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3474 |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |{{sortname|last=Boot|first=Max}} |{{Sort|Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam|''The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam''}} |Finalist |<ref name=":5" /> |- |{{sortname|last=Weber|first=Caroline|link=Caroline Weber (author)}} |''Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle Paris'' |Finalist |<ref name=":5" /> |}
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