Every year since 1901 the Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace. The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden.

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The Pulitzer Prize for a distinguished and appropriately documented biography or autobiography by an American author

The Pulitzer Prize for a distinguished and appropriately documented book on the history of the United States.