Pulitzer Prize for Biography

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Winfred Rembert

11/22/1945 – 03/31/2021

75 years

United States

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Les Payne

07/12/1941 – 03/19/2018

76 years

Harlem

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Carleton Mabee

12/24/1914 – 12/18/2014

99 years

Gardiner

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Justin Kaplan

09/05/1925 – 03/02/2014

88 years

Cambridge

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Frank McCourt

08/19/1930 – 07/19/2009

78 years

Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer

Manhattan

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David Herbert Donald

10/01/1920 – 05/17/2009

88 years

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Arthur M. Schlesinger

10/15/1917 – 02/28/2007

89 years

American historian, social critic, and public intellectual

New York City

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George F. Kennan

02/16/1904 – 03/17/2005

101 years

American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian

Princeton

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Arthur Walworth

07/09/1903 – 01/10/2005

101 years

Needham

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John E. Mack

10/04/1929 – 09/27/2004

74 years

London

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R. W. B. Lewis

11/01/1917 – 06/13/2002

84 years

Bethany

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Katharine Graham

06/16/1917 – 07/17/2001

84 years

American publisher, editor and author

Boise

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Sebastian de Grazia

08/11/1917 – 12/31/2000

83 years

Princeton

Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery

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John Alexander Carroll

03/22/1925 – 12/17/2000

75 years

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Walter Jackson Bate

05/23/1918 – 07/26/1999

81 years

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Leon Edel

09/09/1907 – 09/05/1997

89 years

Honolulu

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Richard Ellmann

03/15/1918 – 05/13/1987

69 years

Oxford

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Samuel Eliot Morison

07/09/1887 – 05/15/1976

88 years

Parkland Memorial Hospital

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John F. Kennedy

05/29/1917 – 11/22/1963

46 years

president of the United States from 1961 to 1963

14829

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Ralph Barton Perry

07/03/1876 – 01/22/1957

80 years

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Robert E. Sherwood

04/04/1896 – 11/14/1955

59 years

New York City

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Carl Van Doren

09/10/1885 – 07/18/1950

64 years

Torrington