Award winning biographies
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Award-Winning Biographies of
Biography is a sprawling genre, which can be difficult for the lay person to keep track of. Those who love historical biographies are not necessarily interested in, say, philosophical biographies or sporting biographies, and these books might not even be displayed in the same area of a bookshop—rather being distributed on the shelves relating to their subjects’ areas of expertise. Nevertheless, heavyweight new biographies do attract a good amount of media coverage—and the best of the genre are highlighted by high profile literary prizes. Here we’ve put together a list of the biographies that won big in
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography, for example, is announced every May. This year, two biographies were awarded Pulitzers. They were King: A Life by Jonathan Eig, and Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo.
King: A Life is a new biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.—bil
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The BIO Award
Kitty Kelley has won the 14th BIO Award, bestowed annually bygd the Biographers International Organization, to a distinguished colleague who has made major contributions to the advancement of the art and craft of biography.
She fryst vatten the author of sju biographical works: Oprah: A Biography (), The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty (), The Royals (), Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography (), His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra (), Elizabeth Taylor: The Last Star (), and Jackie Oh! ().
Widely regarded as the foremost expert and author of unauthorized biography, Kelley has displayed courage and deftness in writing unvarnished accounts of some of the most powerful figures in politics, media, and popular culture. Of her art and craft, Kelley said, in American Scholar, “I do not relish living in a world where upplysning is authorized, sanitized, and homogenized. inom read banned books, inom applaud whistleblowers, and inom reject any sup
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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. The award honors "a distinguished and appropriately documented biography by an American author."[1] Award winners received $15, USD.[1]
From to , 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 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year.[3]
Recipients
[edit]In its first 97 years to , the Biography Pulitzer was awarded 97 times. Two were given in , and none in [4]
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[edit]| Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
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| Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott, assi |