Books by Tom Reiss
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
by Tom Reiss
🏆 Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Alexandre Dumas, the French author and playwright, was drawing on a rich seam of family legend when he composed his 1846 work of classic literature The Count of Monte Cristo: his father, General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas was a swashbuckling military leader during the French Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars. He was also the son of a Black Haitian slave, rising to remarkable power in a period of finely balance race relations. Time magazine described Tom Reiss's hit biography as "one of those quintessentially human stories of strength and courage that also sheds light on the flukey historical moment that made it possible.”
Interviews where books by Tom Reiss 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.
