Annal:1991 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
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Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1991. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith
- 1991 Pulitzer–Biography winner
- 1990 NBA–Nonfiction finalist
- Score: 16.41
Based on family letters and documents, lengthy interviews with his widow, Lee Krasner, as well as his psychologists and psychoanalysts, this book explodes the myths surrounding his death in 1956.
The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918
- 1991 Pulitzer–Biography finalist
- 1990 LATimes–Biography finalist
- Score: 12.41
Alfred I. Du Pont: The Man and His Family
- 1991 Pulitzer–Biography finalist
- Score: 6.41
If Alfred I. du Pont was born to “the purple and ermine” of an American industrial dynasty, his life was far from peaceful, pampered, indolent. Beginning at the bottom as little more than a teamster and handyman, within fifteen years young du Pont was widely recognized as “the best black powderman in the nation” and the mechanical genius of the du Pont family. In 1902, upon the death of Eugene du Pont, Alfred was brash and confident enough to claim for himself the company his elders wanted to sell to their major competitor, Laflin and Rand. With two cousins, he…
