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Biography
Award-recognized works classified under biography, with sortable prize results, imprints, and related subjects.
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
David W. Blight
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Beverly Gage
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert A. Caro
Walter Lippmann and the American Century
Ronald Steel
W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919
David Levering Lewis
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science
Andrea Wulf
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Caroline Fraser
Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915
Louis R. Harlan
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 3
Robert A. Caro
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Les Payne, Tamara Payne
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Annette Gordon-Reed
Truman
David McCullough
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Manning Marable
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Jeffrey C. Stewart
de Kooning: An American Master
Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan
A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
Geoffrey C. Ward
George F. Kennan: An American Life
John Lewis Gaddis
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa
Edith Wharton: A Biography
R. W. B. Lewis
Samuel Johnson
Walter Jackson Bate
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
Tom Reiss
Mornings on Horseback
David McCullough
W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963
David Levering Lewis
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
Rebecca Donner
Grant: A Biography
William S. McFeely
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
Amy Stanley
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
Linda Gordon
Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
T. J. Stiles
Richard Nixon: The Life
John A. Farrell
King: A Life
Jonathan Eig
Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse, the Conquest of Colour, 1909–1954
Hilary Spurling
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Herbert P. Bix
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
William Taubman
Lindbergh
A. Scott Berg
Oscar Wilde
Richard Ellmann
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
T. J. Stiles
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
Kenneth Silverman
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris
Thomas Babington Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian
John Leonard Clive
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
Leo Damrosch
Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century
Jennifer Homans
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Patrick Radden Keefe
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
George Packer
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage
Jonny Steinberg
Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Vol. II
Janet Browne
James Joyce
Richard Ellmann
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
Ruth Franklin
The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
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