Annal:1984 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
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Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1984. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915
- 1984 Pulitzer–Biography winner
- Score: 10.34
This book begins in 1901, when Booker T. Washington at the age of forty-five was approaching the zenith of his fame and influence, and ends with his death in 1915. It is a biographical study in the sense that its focus is on the complex, enigmatic figure of Washington, the most powerful black minority-group boss of his time.
