Annal:1994 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
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Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1994. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
W.E.B. Dubois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
- 1994 Pulitzer–Biography winner
- Score: 10.44
This monumental biography—eight years in the research and writing—treats the early and middle phases of a long and intense career: a crucial fifty-year period that demonstrates how Du Bois changed forever the way Americans think about themselves.
In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding
- 1994 Pulitzer–Biography finalist
- Score: 6.44
In her poetry, fiction, essays, and public statements, Laura Riding, the author of twenty-three books, tackled feminism, communism, sexuality, Freud, language and belief, and the coming-of-age of the American dream. In her personal relationships she was often at the center of a circle of friends and artists whose activities she inspired and sometimes controlled. Her extraordinary range of associates included writers as diverse as Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Edmund Wilson, Malcolm Cowley, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren. During a long and “scandalous” affair…
Genet: A Biography
- 1993 NBCC–Biography winner
- 1994 Pulitzer–Biography finalist
- Score: 16.43
A meticulously researched biography of Jean Genet, one of France’s most notorious writers. Acclaimed novelist and essayist Edmund White illuminates Genet’s experiences in the worlds of crime, homosexuality, politics, and high culture, and gives a compelling analysis of Genet’s plays, novels, and essays.
