1972 pulitzer prize for biography
1972 pulitzer prize winner!
Pulitzer Prize for Biography
American award for distinguished biographies
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.
1972 pulitzer prize for biography
The award honors "a distinguished and appropriately documented biography by an American author."[1] Award winners received $15,000 USD.[1]
From 1917 to 2022, this prize was known as the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and was awarded to a distinguished biography, autobiography or memoir[2] by an American author or co-authors, published during the preceding calendar year.
Thus it is one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year.[3]
Recipients
In its first 97 years to 2013, the Biography Pulitzer was awarded 97 times.
Two were given in 1938, and none in 1962.[4]
1910s-1940s
| Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1917 | Laura E. Richa
|