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===2020s=== {| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" |+Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners and finalists, 2020-present<ref name="Pulitzer-list" /> !Year !Author(s) !Work !Result !Ref |- style="background-color:lightyellow;" ! rowspan="3" |[[2020 in literature|2020]] |{{Sortname|first=Benjamin|last=Moser}} |''[[Sontag: Her Life and Work]]'' |Winner |<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=2020 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2020 |website=[[Pulitzer Prize]] |access-date=May 5, 2020 |archive-date=July 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200730234718/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2020 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-05-05 |title=The Nickel Boys Among Pulitzer Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3732 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=January 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230130215553/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3732 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Maher |first=John |date=2020-05-04 |title=Moser, Whitehead, McDaniel, Grandin, Boyer, Brown Win 2020 Pulitzers |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/83233-pulitzer-prizes-2020.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en |archive-date=November 30, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130123841/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/83233-pulitzer-prizes-2020.html |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |{{Sortname|first=George|last=Packer}} |''Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century'' |Finalist |<ref name=":0" /> |- |{{Sortname|first=Deirdre|last=Bair}} |''Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me'' |Finalist |<ref name=":0" /> |- style="background-color:lightyellow;" ! rowspan="3" |[[2021 in literature|2021]] |{{Sortname|first=Les|last=Payne}} and Tamara Payne |{{Sort|Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X|''[[The Dead Are Arising|The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X]]''}} |Winner |<ref name=":1">{{cite web |title=2021 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2021 |website=[[Pulitzer Prize]] |access-date=June 11, 2021 |archive-date=July 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220711134532/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2021 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-06-14 |title=2021 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4006 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=January 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123024752/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4006 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=2021-06-11 |title=Pulitzer Prize: 2021 Winners List |language=en-US |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/business/pulitzer-prize-winners.html |access-date=2023-05-11 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> |- |{{Sortname|first=Heather|last=Clark|link=Heather Clark (writer)}} |''[[Red Comet|Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath]]'' |Finalist |<ref name=":1" /> |- |{{Sortname|first=Amy|last=Stanley}} |''[[Stranger in the Shogun's City|Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World]]'' |Finalist |<ref name=":1" /> |- style="background-color:lightyellow;" ! rowspan="3" |[[2022 in literature|2022]] |{{Sortname|first=Winfred|last=Rembert}} and [[Erin I. Kelly]] |''[[Chasing Me to My Grave|Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South]]'' |Winner |<ref name=":2">{{cite web |title=2022 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2022 |website=[[Pulitzer Prize]] |access-date=May 12, 2022 |archive-date=August 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220802013936/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2022 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Maher |first=John |date=2022-05-09 |title='The Netanyahus,' 'frank: sonnets' Among 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/89252-the-netanyahus-frank-sonnets-among-2022-pulitzer-prize-winners.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en |archive-date=November 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129181727/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/89252-the-netanyahus-frank-sonnets-among-2022-pulitzer-prize-winners.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-05-10 |title=2022 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4229 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=July 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705011242/https://shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4229 |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |{{Sortname|first=Richard|last=Zenith}} |''[[Pessoa: A Biography]]'' |Finalist |<ref name=":2" /> |- |{{Sortname|first=Janice P.|last=Nimura}} |{{Sort|Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine|''[[The Doctors Blackwell|The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine]]''}} |Finalist |<ref name=":2" /> |- style="background-color:lightyellow;" ! rowspan="3" |[[2023 in literature|2023]] |{{sortname|last=Gage|first=Beverly}} |''[[G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century]]'' |Winner |<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |last=Stewart |first=Sophia |date=2023-05-08 |title='Demon Copperhead,' 'Trust,' 'His Name Is George Floyd' Among 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/92233-demon-copperhead-trust-his-name-is-george-floyd-among-2023-pulitzer-prize-winners.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-05-09 |title=2023 Pulitzer Prize Winners Include Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead, Diaz's Trust |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4476 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref> |- |{{sortname|last=Homans|first=Jennifer}} |''Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century'' |Finalist |<ref name=":02" /> |- |{{sortname|last=Samuels|first=Robert|link=Robert Samuels (journalist)}} and [[Toluse Olorunnipa]] |''[[His Name Is George Floyd|His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice]]'' |Finalist |<ref name=":02" /> |- style=background-color:lightyellow; ! rowspan="3" |[[2024 in literature|2024]] |{{sortname|last=Eig|first=Jonathan}} | ''[[King: A Life]]'' |Winner |'''<ref name=":10">{{Cite web |last=op de Beeck |first=Nathalie|date=2024-05-06 |title='Night Watch,' 'A Day in the Life of Abed Salama,' 'King' Among 2024 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/94978-night-watch-a-day-in-the-life-of-abed-salama-king-among-2024-pulitzer-prize-winners.html |access-date=2024-05-08 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-05-07 |title=2024 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4721#m63738 |access-date=2023-05-08 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref>''' |- style=background-color:lightyellow; |{{sortname|last=Woo|first=Ilyon}} |''[[Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom]]'' |Winner |'''<ref name=":10" />''' |- |{{sortname|last=Daugherty|first=Tracy}} |''Larry McMurtry: A Life'' |Finalist |'''<ref name=":10" />''' |- style=background-color:lightyellow; ! rowspan="3" |[[2025 in literature|2025]] |{{sortname|Jason|Roberts|dab=author}} |''[[Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life]]'' |Winner | |- |{{sortname|David|Greenberg|dab=historian}} | ''[[John Lewis: A Life]]'' |Finalist | |- |{{sortname|Amy|Reading}} |''[[The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker]]'' |Finalist | |}
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