| IfoSta - Information und Statistik | |||
| IfoSta - Weiteres | |||
| Inhaltsverzeichnis | |||
| Nominierungen History | |||
| Nominierungen Poetry | |||
| Pulitzer-Preis | |||
| Nominierungen - Biographie oder Autobiographie (Biography or Autobiography) | |||
| Jahr | Nominierung | Begründung für Preisvergabe | Bemerkung |
| 1980 | Edmund Morris | The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt | |
| 1980 | Meryle Secrest | Being Bernard Berenson | |
| 1980 | Ernest Samuels | Bernard Berenson, The Making of a Connoisseur | |
| 1980 | Geoffrey Wolff | The Duke of Deception | |
| 1981 | Robert K. Massie | Peter the Great: His Life and World | |
| 1981 | Justin Kaplan | Walt Whitman: A Life | |
| 1981 | Ronald Steel | Walter Lippmann and the American Century | |
| 1982 | William S. McFeely | Grant: A Biography | |
| 1982 | David McCullough | Mornings on Horseback | |
| 1982 | Gay Wilson Allen | Waldo Emerson | |
| 1983 | Russell Baker | Growing Up | |
| 1983 | Ted Morgan | Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry, 1874–1915 | |
| 1983 | Richard Norton Smith | Thomas E. Dewey and His Times | |
| 1984 | Louis R. Harlan | Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915 | |
| 1984 | Kenneth Manning | Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just | |
| 1984 | Fred Kaplan | Thomas Carlyle: A Biography | |
| 1985 | Kenneth Silverman | The Life and Times of Cotton Mather | |
| 1985 | Howard M. Feinstein | Becoming William James | |
| 1985 | Michael Mott | The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton | |
| 1986 | Elizabeth Frank | Louise Bogan: A Portrait | |
| 1986 | Frida Scheps Weinstein | A Hidden Childhood: A Jewish Girl's Sanctuary in a French Convent, 1942–1945 | |
| 1986 | John Hope Franklin | George Washington Williams: A Biography | |
| 1987 | David J. Garrow | Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference | |
| 1987 | Joseph Frank | Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860–1865 | |
| 1987 | A. M. Sperber | Murrow: His Life and Times | |
| 1987 | Leonard L. Richards | The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams | |
| 1988 | David Herbert Donald | Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe | |
| 1988 | John Owen McCormick | George Santayana: A Biography | |
| 1988 | Kenneth S. Lynn | Hemingway | |
| 1989 | Richard Ellmann | Oscar Wilde | |
| 1989 | Neil Sheehan | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam | |
| 1989 | Peter Gay | Freud: A Life for Our Time | |
| 1989 | Arnold Rampersad | The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II, 1941–1967: I Dream a World | |
| 1990 | Sebastian de Grazia | Machiavelli in Hell | |
| 1990 | Geoffrey C. Ward | A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt | |
| 1990 | Reynolds Price | Clear Pictures: First Loves, First Guides | |
| 1990 | Jill Ker Conway | The Road From Coorain | |
| 1991 | Steven Naifeh | Jackson Pollock: An American Saga | |
| 1991 | Gregory White Smith | ||
| 1991 | Joseph Frazier Wall | Alfred I. Du Pont: The Man and His Family | |
| 1991 | Patricia O'Toole | The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends 1880–1918 | |
| 1992 | Lewis B. Puller | Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller Jr. | |
| 1992 | William S. McFeely | Frederick Douglass | |
| 1992 | Michael Shelden | Orwell: The Authorized Biography | |
| 1993 | David McCullough | Truman | |
| 1993 | James Gleick | Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman | |
| 1993 | Walter Isaacson | Kissinger | |
| 1994 | David Levering Lewis | W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919 | |
| 1994 | Edmund White | Genet: A Biography | |
| 1994 | Deborah Baker | In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding | |
| 1995 | Joan D. Hedrick | Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life | |
| 1995 | Roger K. Newman | Hugo Black: A Biography | |
| 1995 | Stacy Schiff | Saint-Exupery: A Biography | |
| 1996 | Jack Miles | God: A Biography | |
| 1996 | John Loughery | John Sloan: Painter and Rebel | |
| 1996 | Maynard Solomon | Mozart: A Life | |
| 1997 | Frank McCourt | Angela's Ashes: A Memoir | |
| 1997 | Hershel Parker | Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 1, 1819–1851 | |
| 1997 | Kim Barnes | In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country | |
| 1998 | Katharine Graham | Personal History | |
| 1998 | James H. Jones | Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public-Private Life | |
| 1998 | Sam Tanenhaus | Whittaker Chambers: A Biography | |
| 1999 | A. Scott Berg | Lindbergh | |
| 1999 | Sylvia Nasar | A Beautiful Mind | |
| 1999 | Francine du Plessix Gray | At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life | |
| 2000 | Stacy Schiff | Vera, Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov | |
| 2000 | Bobbie Ann Mason | Clear Springs: A Memoir | |
| 2000 | Dava Sobel | Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love | |
| 2001 | David Levering Lewis | W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963 | |
| 2001 | Christoph Wolff | Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician | |
| 2001 | H. W. Brands | The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin | |
| 2002 | David McCullough | John Adams | |
| 2002 | Jimmy Carter | An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood | |
| 2002 | Jean Edward Smith | Grant | |
| 2003 | Robert Caro | Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson | |
| 2003 | Lewis Lockwood | Beethoven: The Music and the Life | |
| 2003 | Nicholas Dawidoff | The Fly Swatter | |
| 2004 | William Taubman | Khrushchev: The Man and His Era | |
| 2004 | Hayden Herrera | Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work | |
| 2004 | James Gleick | Isaac Newton | |
| 2005 | Mark Stevens | de Kooning: An American Master | |
| 2005 | Annalyn Swan | ||
| 2005 | William Souder | Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America | |
| 2005 | Stephen Greenblatt | Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare | |
| 2006 | Kai Bird | American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer | |
| 2006 | Martin J. Sherwin | ||
| 2006 | Megan Marshall | The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism | |
| 2006 | Joan Didion | The Year of Magical Thinking | |
| 2007 | Debby Applegate | The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher | |
| 2007 | David Nasaw | Andrew Carnegie | |
| 2007 | Arthur H. Cash | John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty | |
| 2008 | John Matteson | Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father | |
| 2008 | Zachary Leader | The Life of Kingsley Amis | |
| 2008 | Martin Duberman | The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein | |
| 2009 | Jon Meacham | American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House | |
| 2009 | Steve Coll | The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century | |
| 2009 | H. W. Brands | Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt | |
| 2010 | T. J. Stiles | The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt | |
| 2010 | Blake Bailey | Cheever: A Life | |
| 2010 | John Milton Cooper, Jr. | Woodrow Wilson: A Biography | |
| 2011 | Ron Chernow | Washington: A Life | |
| 2011 | Michael O'Brien | Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon | |
| 2011 | Alan Brinkley | The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century | |
| 2012 | John Lewis Gaddis | George F. Kennan: An American Life | |
| 2012 | Manning Marable | Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention | |
| 2012 | Mary Gabriel | Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution | |
| 2013 | Tom Reiss | The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo | |
| 2013 | Michael Gorra | Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece | |
| 2013 | David Nasaw | The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy | |
| 2014 | Megan Marshall | Margaret Fuller: A New American Life | |
| 2014 | Leo Damrosch | Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World | |
| 2014 | Jonathan Sperber | Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life | |
| 2015 | David I. Kertzer | The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe | |
| 2015 | Thomas Brothers | Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism | |
| 2015 | Stephen Kotkin | Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928 | |
| 2016 | William Finnegan | Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life | |
| 2016 | T. J. Stiles | Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America | |
| 2016 | Elizabeth Alexander | The Light of the World: A Memoir | |
| 2017 | Hisham Matar | The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between | |
| 2017 | Susan Faludi | In the Darkroom | |
| 2017 | Paul Kalanithi | When Breath Becomes Air | |
| 2018 | Caroline Fraser | Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder | |
| 2018 | John A. Farrell | Richard Nixon: The Life | |
| 2018 | Kay Redfield Jamison | Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character | |
| 2019 | Jeffrey C. Stewart | The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke | |
| 2019 | Caroline Weber | Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle Paris | |
| 2019 | Max Boot | The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam | |
| 2020 | Benjamin Moser | Sontag: Her Life and Work | |
| 2020 | George Packer | Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, | |
| 2020 | Deirdre Bair | Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, And Me | |