Annal:2000 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
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Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 2000. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2000 Pulitzer–Biography winner
- Score: 10.5
At once a love story, a portrait of a marriage, and an answer to a riddle, Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) explores a remarkable literary partnership—that of a woman who devoted her life to her husband’s art and a man who dedicated his works to his wife. Open a volume of Nabokov’s, and there is Véra on the dedication page, front and center. But search for her elsewhere, and the woman to whom the author of Lolita was married for fifty-two years, who carried on his correspondence in his name, fades from view.
In a beautifully limned portrait, Stacy Schiff…
Clear Springs: A Family Story
- 2000 Pulitzer–Biography finalist
- Score: 6.5
In this superb memoir, the bestselling author of In Country and other award-winning books tells her own story, and the story of a Kentucky farm family, the Masons of Clear Springs. Like Russell Baker’s Growing Up, Jill Ker Conway’s The Road from Coorain, and other classic literary memoirs, Clear Springs takes us back in time to recapture a way of life that has all but disappeared, a country culture deeply rooted in work and food and family, in common sense and music and the land. Clear Springs is also an American woman’s odyssey, exploring how a misfit…
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
- 1999 LATimes–Sci/Tech winner
- 2000 Pulitzer–Biography finalist
- Score: 16.49
Inspired by her long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter, which Sobel has translated into English for the first time, Galileo’s Daughter is a book of great originality and power, a biography unlike any ever written on Galileo. Sobel, the author of the bestseller Longitude, brings Galileo to life as never before-boldly compelled to explain the truths he discovered, human in his frailties and faith, devoted to family, especially to his eldest daughter.
The voices of Galileo and his daughter, Suor Maria Celeste, echo…
