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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