For a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author, three thousand dollars ($3,000).

W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919 , by David Levering Lewis (Henry Holt )

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Biography in 1994:

Richard B. Russell Professor of History

professor of History

biographer

1993

1992

1991

1990

Beat Reporting

For dogged reporting that disclosed flagrant spending abuses at Michigan's House Fiscal Agency.

Commentary

For his compelling commentaries on a variety of social and political topics.

Criticism

For his skillful and resonant classical music criticism.

Drama