Biography
- 2012 — David McCullough
- 2006 — Robert Caro
- 2000 — R. W. B. Lewis
- 1994 — Walter Jackson Bate
- 1988 — James Thomas Flexner
- 1982 — Francis Steegmuller
- 1976 — Leon Edel
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“A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.”
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)