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For a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author, one thousand dollars ($1,000).

Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 , by Louis R. Harlan (Oxford U. Press )

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Biography in 1984:

The Jury

Millicent Bell(Chair)

Professor of English, Boston University

William S. McFeely*

Professor of History, Mount Holyoke College

Jean Strouse

General Editor, Newsweek

Winners in Biography

1984 Prize Winners