2010 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Winner
2009 National Book Award Winner-Nonfiction

From the award-winning author of "Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War" comes the first full, authoritative look at the life of Cornelius Vanderbilt--the complex and combative man whose genius and force of will gave birth to modern capitalism. …More

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2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Winner

From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Franklin and Winston" and "American Gospel" comes a magnificent portrait of Andrew Jackson, the man who shaped the modern presidency. Illustrated with black-and-white photos. …More

Winner - 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Biography

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Matteson looks at the personal life behind the beloved author of Little Women in this story that highlights the tense yet loving bond between Louisa May Alcott and her father, Bronson, and the impact of that relationship on her life and work. …More

Winner - 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
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Applegate brings the fascinating, flawed figure of Henry Ward Beecher to deserved new life and places him at the center of the key dramas of the American 19th century—including the advent of the pulp novel and tabloid press. …More

Winner-2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
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"American Prometheus" is a rich evocation of America in mid-century and a compelling portrait of scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, a man shaped by, or helped to shape, its major events--the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. …More

Winner-2005 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Ten years in the making, this exhaustively researched biography is a masterful portrait of the abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning, who arrived in New York as a stowaway from Rotterdam in 1926 and underwent a long struggle to become a painter. …More

Winner - 2004 ALA Non-Fiction Notable Selection
Winner - 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Brimming with the life and excitement of Nikita Krushchev, a man whose story personified his era, this biography reflects the full range of sources that have become available since the Soviet Union collapsed. of photos. …More

Winner - 2003 ALA Non-Fiction Notable Selection
Winner - 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Winner - 2002 National Book Award for Nonfiction
At the heart of this work is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works. Interweaving his narrative with a brilliantly astute and concise history of the Senate, Caro shows readers how political initiatives triumph or fail and how political genius functions. …More

Winner-2002 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
In his first book since "Truman", one of America's most distinguished and popular biographers breathes life into history with this compelling look at the second president of the United States, John Adams. More than just a biography, this book looks at the birth of a young republic and explores the extraordinary factors that transformed 13 colonies into a united nation. of illustrations, many in color. …More

Winner - 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
"To say that Lewis's is the finest biography of Du Bois ever written hardly does justice to his performance. Until the publication of this superb new book, Du Bois's life had never received the treatment it deserves".--"The Nation". 16-page photo insert. …More

Winner - 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
"Vera" is the "utterly romantic" ("New York" magazine) story of the 52-year marriage between Vladimir Nabokov, one the 20th century's most original writers, and a woman with an intellect and devotion to literature equal to her husband's. …More

Winner - 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Few American icons provoke more enduring fascination than Charles Lindbergh -- renowned for his one-man transatlantic flight in 1927, remembered for the sorrow surrounding the kidnapping and death of his firstborn son in 1932, and reviled by many for his opposition to America's entry into World War II. Lindbergh's is "a dramatic and disturbing American story, " …More

Winner - 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
In this critically acclaimed memoir, the woman who piloted the "Washington Post" through the crises of the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, and a pressmen's strike and turned it into a great newspaper now tells her story with courage, candor, and dignity. "Captivating . . . distinguished by a level of introspection that ought to be . . . the touchstone of autobiography".--"Newsday". …More

Listen to an excerpt read by and a Conversation with Frank McCourt recounting "a miserable Irish childhood." This account won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. …More

Winner - 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
What sort of "person" is God? Is it possible to approach him not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book--as a character who possesses all the depths, contradictions, and abiguities of a Hamlet? In this "brilliant, audacious book" (Chicago Tribune), a former Jesuit marshalls a vast array of learning and knowledge of the Hebrew Bible to illuminate God--and man--with a sense of discovery and wonder. …More