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

Peter the Great: His Life and World , by Robert K. Massie (Knopf )

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Biography in 1981:

The Jury

Beatrice Hofstadter White(Chair)

Author

John Kenneth Galbraith

Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Harvard University

Gertrude Himmelfarb

Distinguished Professor of History, CUNY Graduate Center

Winners in Biography

1981 Prize Winners