Award winning biography
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Rules & Eligibility
The Goodreads Choice Awards have two rounds of voting open to all registered Goodreads members. Winners will be announced December 07,
Opening Round: Nov 14 - 26
In the first round there are 20 books in each of the 15 categories, and members can vote for one book in each category.
Final Round: Nov 28 - Dec 03
The field narrows to the top 10 books in each category, and members have one last chance to vote!
Books published in the United States in English, including works in translation and other significant rereleases, between November 17, , and November 15, , are eligible for the Goodreads Choice Awards. Books published between November 16, , and November 14, , will be eligible for the awards.
We analyze statistics from the millions of books added, rated, and reviewed on Goodreads to nominate 20 books in each category. For the Audiobook category, nominations are based on the millions of titles added, rated, and reviewed both on Goodreads and A
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The 50 Best Biographies of All Time
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Crown The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, bygd Tom Reiss
You’re probably familiar with The Count of Monte Cristo, the revenge novel by Alexandre Dumas. But did you know it was based on the life of Dumas’s father, the mixed-race General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, son of a French nobleman and a Haitian slave? Thanks to Reiss’s masterful pacing and plotting, this rip-roaring biography of Thomas-Alexandre reads more like an adventure novel than a work of nonfiction. The Black Count won the pris Prize for Biography in , and it’s only a matter of time before a filmskapare turns it into a big-screen blockbuster.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret, bygd Craig Brown
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Pulitzer Prize for Biography
American award for distinguished biographies
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. The award honors "a distinguished and appropriately documented biography by an American author."[1] Award winners received $15, USD.[1]
From to , this prize was known as the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and was awarded to a distinguished biography, autobiography or memoir[2] by an American author or co-authors, published during the preceding calendar year. Thus it is one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year.[3]
Recipients
[edit]In its first 97 years to , the Biography Pulitzer was awarded 97 times. Two were given in , and none in [4]
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[edit]| Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
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| Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott, assi |