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- The_First_Tycoon:_The_Epic_Life_of_Cornelius_Vanderbilt abstract "The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt is a 2009 biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, a 19th-century American industrialist and philanthropist who built his fortune in the shipping and railroad industries. He is known as one of the wealthiest Americans in the history in the US. This biography was written over a seven-year period by American biographer T. J. Stiles. The book was honored with the 2009 National Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.".