Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography Jane Mecom: the Favorite Sister of Benjamin Franklin (1950) 'The Great Rehearsal'' (1948) References External links 1885 births 1950 deaths American people of Dutch descent Columbia University alumni Columbia University faculty Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners Carl Clinton Van Doren University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni People from Vermilion County, Illinois People from Cornwall, Connecticut American critics 20th-century American biographers The Nation (U.S. magazine) people Writers from Illinois