Annal:1981 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
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Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1981. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Peter the Great: His Life and World
- 1981 Pulitzer–Biography winner
- Score: 10.31
Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great. He brought Russia from the darkness of its own Middle Ages into the Enlightenment and transformed it into the power that has its legacy in the Russia of our own century.
