Biography of the year 2008

Biography prize

Which celebrities, politicians and artists hit the headlines in ?
biography of the year 2008

Pulitzer prize winners by year

Barack Obama’s flawless campaign to win the presidency against the odds shows how America has changed.

Award winning biographies

In the world renewed its commitment to the Millennium Development Goals: its promises to the global billions of poor and disenfranchised.


Best biographies
The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul, by Patrick French (Knopf) Reviewed by Christopher Hitchens ("Cruel and Unusual," April ).