Books by John Matteson
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
by John Matteson
š Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
CUNY English literature professor Jon Matteson tells the dual life stories of the author of Little Women and her father, the eminent teacher Bronson Alcott, against the unfolding backdrop of the American Civil War and the growing Transcendental intellectual movement. ""A double biography is a difficult thing to bring off but Matteson does it beautifully," observedĀ The Guardian, on first release in 2008, "giving a vivid but delicate account of two complicated characters inextricably entwined."
Interviews where books by John Matteson were recommended
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
by Jason Roberts -
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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.
