Blue titles indicate Pulitzer Prize WINNERS. Blue italicized titles indicate Pulitzer Prize finalists. Orange indicates a new or recent release.
Updated July 26, 2021 (completed books are sorted by rating).
Congratulations to “The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X” – winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in biography!
| Nicholas II & Alexandra Romanov | Nicholas and Alexandra: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1967) by Robert Massie | REVIEW (4½ stars) |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1981) by Matthew Bruccoli | REVIEW (4½ stars) |
| Malcolm X | The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X (2020) by Les & Tamara Payne | REVIEW (4¼ stars) |
| John Calhoun | John C. Calhoun: American Portrait (1950) by Margaret Coit | REVIEW (4¼ stars) |
| Tecumseh | Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation (2020) by Peter Cozzens | REVIEW (4¼ stars) |
| Charles Lindbergh | Lindbergh (1998) by A. Scott Berg | REVIEW (4 stars) |
| Nancy Reagan | The Triumph of Nancy Reagan (2021) by Karen Tumulty | REVIEW (4 stars) |
| Jimmy Carter(*) | The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter (2021) by Kai Bird | REVIEW (4 stars) |
| Henry Adams | The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams (2020) by David S. Brown | REVIEW (3¾ stars) |
| Dwight Eisenhower(*) | The Age of Eisenhower (2018) by William Hitchcock | REVIEW (3¾ stars) |
| John Hay | All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay (2013) by John Taliaferro | REVIEW (3½ stars) |
| Wm McKinley(*) | President McKinley: Architect of the American Century (2017) by Robert Merry |
REVIEW (3½ stars) |
| Lady Bird Johnson | Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight (2021) by Julia Sweig | REVIEW (3½ stars) |
| Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (2018) by David Blight | REVIEW (3½ stars) |
| JQA(*) | John Quincy Adams: American Visionary (2014) by Fred Kaplan | REVIEW (3½ stars) |
| John Steinbeck | Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck (2020) by William Souder | REVIEW (3¼ stars) |
| Harry Truman(*) | The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months that Changed the World (2017) by A.J. Baime | REVIEW (3 stars) |
| James Madison(*) | The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partian, President (2017) by Noah Feldman | early Aug |
| Patrick Henry | Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty (2017) by John Kukla | mid Aug |
| Napoleon | Napoleon: A Life (2014) by Andrew Roberts | late Aug |
| Thomas Jefferson(*) | Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty (2017) by John Boles | early Sept |
| George Marshall | George Marshall: Defender of the Republic (2019) by David Roll | late Sept |
| Abraham Lincoln(*) | Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln (2014) by Richard Brookhiser | early Oct |
| Oscar Wilde | Oscar Wilde: A Life (2021) by Matthew Sturgis | late Oct |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life (2006) by Hugh Brogan | early Nov |
| Salmon Chase | Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln’s Vital Rival (2021) by Walter Stahr | mid Nov |
| FDR(*) | Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life (2017) by Robert Dallek |
early Dec |
| Charles de Gaulle | The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General de Gaulle (1996) by Charles Williams | mid Dec |
| Sam Houston | Sam Houston (2002) by James Haley | late Dec |
* Follow-up biography for my Journey Through the Best Presidential Biographies
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