Books by Jason Roberts
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
by Jason Roberts
š Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Every Living Thing by Jason Roberts is a dual biography of the Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) and Georges-Louis de Buffon (1707-1788), a French aristocrat and author of a 36-volume Natural History,Ā as they sought to categorize the natural world. Although better known today, Linnaeus does not come out of the book looking good, and it was Buffon's ideas that led more directly to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection just under a century later.
Interviews where books by Jason Roberts were recommended
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Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
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The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes
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Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome
by Jane Draycott -
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The Traitors Circle: The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany and the Spy Who Betrayed Them
by Jonathan Freedland -
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Baldwin: A Love Story
by Nicholas Boggs -
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True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen
by Lance Richardson
New Biographies
New Biographies
Among the new biographies coming out in 2025, the lives of literary figures have been particularly prominent, including new books about Robert Louis Stevenson, the Scottish adventure writer, and Shakespeare’s rival Christopher Marlowe, who was stabbed to death aged 29. Also popular are reconstructions of lives from the distant past that we know little about, including the first King of England and Fulvia, the first wife of Mark Antony.
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
by Ilyon Woo -
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King: A Life
by Jonathan Eig -
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G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
by Beverly Gage -
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
by Winfred Rembert -
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
by Les Payne & Tamara Payne
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographies
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographies
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography is awarded annually to “a distinguished and appropriately documented” biography by an author from or based in the United States. The authors of winning books receive $15,000, and join a starry pantheon of great American writers. Here, we’ve put together a summary of all the Pulitzer-winning biographies since the turn of the millennium.
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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
by Kathleen DuVal -
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Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
by Benjamin Nathans -
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Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
by Tessa Hulls
2025 Pulitzer Prize Nonfiction Book Winners
2025 Pulitzer Prize Nonfiction Book Winners
In May, the winners of theĀ 2025 Pulitzer Prizes, awarded annually by Columbia University in New York and founded by Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), were announced. The prizes are awarded for a variety of categories across journalism, but also celebrate outstanding books. Below we’ve listed all the books that won in nonfiction book categories (James by Percival Everett won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction).
