Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president, at 43 years, and the first Catholic president. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the United States Congress before his presidency.

American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)

American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian (1904-2005)

American journalist, historian, academic, novelist (1838-1918)

Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer

American publisher, editor and author

Serbian-American physicist, physical chemist and philanthropist (1858–1935)

American neurosurgeon (1869-1939)

American historian and author (1933–2022)

American historian, social critic, and public intellectual (1917–2007)

American writer (1896–1955)

American philosopher (1876–1957)

United States admiral and historian (1887-1976)

American award for distinguished biographies

American writer and satirist (1925-2019)

American novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer (1860–1940)

American journalist and author

American writer

American newspaper editor and Progressive leader (1868–1944)

American historian of the Cold War (b.1941)

American psychiatrist (1929–2004)

American historian and politician (1862–1927)

American author

American political scientist

American historian (1929–2019)

American writer and literary critic (1918–1987)

American politician (1860-1946)

American writer and historian (born 1949)

American historian (1937-2021)

American biographer (1885-1950)

American journalist (1886–1953)

Dutch-born American editor and writer

American historian and journalist (1890–1971)

American historian and anthropologist

American linguist, writer

American journalist (1870–1946)

American biographer (1936-2017)

American biographer

American author and editor (1870–1949)

American historian of the American Civil War

American historian (1891–1973)

American journalist

American historian (born 1936)

American writer (1854–1948)

American journalist and biographer (born 1969)

American writer

American writer (1850-1943)

American journalist

American journalist (1860-1941)

American biographer (1918–1999)

American artist, illustrator, and writer and winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize

American writer

Canadian writer (1907–1997)

American author, historian, and journalist (b. 1964)

American editor and biographer

American politician (1884-1967)

American historian (1909-1979)

American biographer (1885–1977)

Biographer, journalist

American biographer (1931-1984)