Annal:2001 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
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Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 2001. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963
- 2001 Pulitzer–Biography winner
- 2000 NBA–Nonfiction finalist
- Score: 16.51
The second volume of the Pulitzer Prize—winning biography that The Washington Post hailed as “an engrossing masterpiece”
Charismatic, singularly determined, and controversial, W.E.B. Du Bois was a historian, novelist, editor, sociologist, founder of the NAACP, advocate of women’s rights, and the premier architect of the Civil Rights movement. His hypnotic voice thunders out of David Levering Lewis’s monumental biography like a locomotive under full steam.
This second volume of what is already a classic work begins with the triumphal return from WWI…
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
- 2001 Pulitzer–Biography finalist
- 2000 LATimes–Biography finalist
- Score: 12.51
In the first comprehensive biography of Benjamin Franklin in over sixty years, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands brings vividly to life one of the most delightful, bawdy, brilliant, original, and important figures in American history.
A groundbreaking scientist, leading businessman, philosopher, bestselling author, inventor, diplomat, politician, and wit, Benjamin Franklin was perhaps the most beloved and celebrated American of his age, or indeed of any age. Now, in a beautifully written and meticulously researched account of Franklin’s life and times, his…
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician
- 2001 Pulitzer–Biography finalist
- Score: 6.51
A landmark biography of Bach on the 250th anniversary of the composer’s death, written by the leading Bach scholar of our age. Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. As we mark the 250th anniversary of Bach’s death, author Christoph Wolff presents a new picture that brings to life this towering figure of the Baroque era. This engaging new biography portrays Bach as the living, breathing, and sometimes imperfect human…
