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Pulitzer Prize 2007

The 2007 Pulitzer Prize went to The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate (Biography or Autobiography) and The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (History). 6 books were finalists across 2 categories.

Winners

Biography or Autobiography

  1. The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegatesource (opens in a new tab)

History

  1. The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoffsource (opens in a new tab)

Finalists

Biography or Autobiography

  1. Andrew Carnegie by David Nasawsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty by Arthur H. Cashsource (opens in a new tab)

History

  1. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbricksource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005 by James T. Campbellsource (opens in a new tab)

About the Pulitzer Prize

Winners and finalists from the pulitzer.org Biography and History category pages. The Biography category was named Biography or Autobiography through 2022; entries use the name in force that year. In 2016 the board moved Custer's Trials from Biography finalist to History winner; it appears in both, as pulitzer.org lists it.

Organization: Pulitzer Prizes. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)

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