"Anthony Trollope" -Victoria Glendinning
"The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution " - David Quammen
Charles Darwin - Janet Browne (multi-volume)
"Uncrowned King: The Life of Prince Albert" - Stanley Weintraub
"American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964" - William Manchester (FDR called him one of the most dangerous men in America)
"The Life of Andrew Jackson" - Robert Remini
"Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power" - Richard J. Carwardine
"The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" - Edmund Morris
"Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr." - Ron Chernow
"Andrew Carnegie" - David Nasaw
"The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt" - T.J. Stiles
"Piero's Light In Search of Piero Della Francesca : A Renaissance Painter and the Revolution in Art, Science, and Religion" - Larry Witham
"Washington: A Life" - Ron Chernow
"A.Lincoln" Ronald C. White, Jr.
"His Excellency: George Washington" - Joseph Ellis
"Truman" - David McCullough
"John Adams" - David McCullough
"Alexander Hamilton" - Ron Chernow
"Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45" - Barbara W. Tuchman
"The First Man" - Albert Camus (an "autobiographical novel" of Camus early life in Algeria)
"Hemingway: a Life Story" - Carlos Baker
"The Last Lion" - William Manchester (multi-volume bio of Winston Churchill)
"Hitler, Vol 1: 1889-1936 Hubris" - Ian Kershaw
"The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo" - Tom Reiss
"Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman" - Robert K. Massie
"Peter the Great: His Life and World" - Robert K. Massie
"Lincoln" - David Herbert Donald
Lots of good ones listed here:
http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Biogra...-Autobiography
More here:
http://www.wolfson.org.uk/history-prize/ (not all biographical)
More here:
http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/events/tait...ners/biography