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x Douglas A. Blackmon 35687_blackmon_douglas_a.jpg 1964 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 2009 Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Douglas A. Blackmon (b. 1964) is an American writer and a Pulitzer Prize winner. He won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. Based on a vast...
American Book Award 2008 Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
x Lawrence Wright Lawrence Wright.jpg Aug 2, 1947 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 2007 The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Lawrence Wright (born August 2, 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, screenwriter, staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, and fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. He is a graduate of...
x Caroline Elkins Caroline Elkins.jpg 1969 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 2006 Imperial Reckoning
Caroline Elkins (born 1969) is a professor of History at Harvard University. She studies the colonial encounter in Africa during the twentieth century. In 2006, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for her book on British...
x Anne Applebaum Applebaum Anne Jul 25, 1964 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 2004 Gulag: A History
Anne Elizabeth Applebaum (born in Washington, D.C. 25 July 1964 (1964-07-25) (age 45)) is a journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has written extensively about communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe....
x Samantha Power 225px-Samantha_Power_2008.jpg Sep 21, 1970 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 2003 "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
Samantha Power (born September 21, 1970, in Ireland) is an Irish American journalist, writer, academic, and government official. She is currently affiliated with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of...
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction 2002 "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards 2003 "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
x Diane McWhorter Diane McWhorter.jpg   Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 2002 Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
Rebecca Diane McWhorter is an American journalist and commentator who has written extensively about race and the history of civil rights. She is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the...
Ambassador Book Award for American Studies 2002 Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
x Herbert P. Bix Herbert P. Bix.jpg   Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 2001 Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Herbert P. Bix is the author of Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, an acclaimed account of the Japanese Emperor and the events which shaped modern Japanese imperialism. Bix earned his Ph.D. in history and Far Eastern languages from Harvard...
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography/Autobiography 2000 Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
x Annie Dillard Annie Dillard.jpg Apr 30, 1945 Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay 2000 For the Time Being
Annie Dillard (born April 30, 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, best known for her narrative nonfiction. She has also published two novels, poetry, essays, literary criticism, and memoir. She is married...
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1975 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Ambassador Book Award for American Arts and Letters 1990 writing life
x Michael Williamson Michael S. Williamson.jpg   Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography 2000  
Michael Williamson is an American photojournalist whose work has been awarded two Pulitzer Prizes. With writer Dale Maharidge, he is co-author of the book And Their Children After Them, which received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in...
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1990 And Their Children After Them
x Saul Friedländer Saul Friedlander.jpg Oct 11, 1932 MacArthur Fellowship Jul 1999 History
Saul Friedländer (Hebrew: שאול פרידלנדר) (born Prague, October 11, 1932) is an award-winning Israeli historian. Born in Prague to German-speaking Jews, Friedländer grew up in France and survived the German Occupation of 1940–1944. From 1942 until...
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 2008 The Years of Extermination
x John McPhee McPheeAnnals Mar 8, 1931 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1999 Annals of the Former World
John Angus McPhee (born 8 March 1931) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer widely considered one of the pioneers of narrative nonfiction. Unlike Tom Wolfe and Hunter Thompson, who helped kick-start the "new journalism" which remolded nonfiction in the...
x John W. Dower John W. Dower.jpg 1938 National Book Award for Nonfiction 1999 Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
John W . Dower (born 1938) is an American author, professor, and historian; his primary focus is modern Japan and U.S.-Japan relations. He is perhaps best known for his book, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, which won the...
PEN/Winship Award 1999 Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 2000 Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction 1986 War Without Mercy
Bancroft Prize 2000 Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
x Jared Diamond Jared diamond Sep 10, 1937 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1998 Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Mason Diamond (born 10 September 1937) is an American scientist and nonfiction author whose work draws from a variety of fields. He is currently Professor of Geography and Physiology at UCLA. He is best known for the award-winning books The...
MacArthur Fellowship Jul 1985 Cultural Anthropology
Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction 1999  
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences 1999  
x Studs Terkel Studs Terkel 2007 May 16, 1912 Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters 1997  
Louis "Studs" Terkel (16 May 1912 – 31 October 2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War, and is best remembered for his oral histories of common...
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award 2003  
Peabody Award 1980  
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1985 The Good War
x Richard Kluger Richard Kluger.jpg 1934 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1997 Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
Richard Kluger (b. 1934) worked as a journalist before becoming an accomplished Pulitzer Prize-winning author and book publisher. Kluger began his career as a journalist, working for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, and the New York...
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards 1977 Simple justice
x Jonathan Weiner Jonathan Weiner.jpg Nov 26, 1953 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1995 The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Jonathan Weiner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of non-fiction books on his biology observations, in particular evolution in the Galápagos Islands, genetics, and the environment. Weiner graduated from Harvard University in 1976. He won the 1995...
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction 1999 Time, love, memory
x David Remnick David Remnick.jpg Oct 29, 1958 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1994 Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
David Remnick (born October 29, 1958 in Hackensack, New Jersey) is an American journalist, writer, and magazine editor. As a reporter for the Washington Post, he also served as the paper's Moscow correspondent. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for...
x Garry Wills Garry Wills.jpg May 22, 1934 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1993 Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
Garry Wills (born May 22, 1934 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a prolific author, journalist, and historian specializing in American politics, American political history and ideology and the Roman Catholic Church. Classically trained at Jesuit schools, he...
St. Louis Literary Award 2004  
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism 1992 Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
Ambassador Book Award for Lifetime Achievement 2007  
Ambassador Book Award for American Studies 1993 Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
x Daniel Yergin Daniel Yergin.jpg Feb 6, 1947 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1992 The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
Daniel H. Yergin (born February 6, 1947) is an American author, speaker, and economic researcher. Yergin is the co-founder and chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, an energy research consultancy. It was acquired by IHS Energy in 2004....
x Bert Hölldobler Bert Hölldobler.jpg Jun 25, 1936 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1991 The Ants
Bert Hölldobler (born 25 June 1936) is a German behavioral biologist and Sociobiologist whose primary study subjects are social insects and in particular ants. He is a co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his work on The Ants (1991) with Edward O....
x Dale Maharidge Dale Maharidge.jpg Oct 24, 1956 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1990 And Their Children After Them
Dale Maharidge (born 24 October 1956) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist best known for his collaborations with photographer Michael Williamson. Maharidge and Williamson's book And Their Children After Them won the Pulitzer Prize for...
x Steve Coll Steve Coll.jpg Oct 8, 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism 1990  
Steve Coll (born October 8, 1958 in Washington, D.C. is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and writer. Coll is currently president and CEO of the New America Foundation. Prior to assuming that post on September 17, 2007, Coll was a staff...
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 2005 Ghost Wars
x Neil Sheehan Hammo1 Oct 27, 1936 National Book Award for Nonfiction 1988 A Bright Shining Lie
Cornelius Mahoney "Neil" Sheehan (born October 27, 1936 in Holyoke, Massachusetts) is an American journalist. As a reporter for The New York Times in 1971, Sheehan obtained the classified Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg. His series in the Times...
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1989 A Bright Shining Lie
Ambassador Book Award for American Studies 1989 A Bright Shining Lie
x Richard Rhodes Rhodes signing Jul 4, 1937 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1988 The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Lee Rhodes (born July 4, 1937) is an American journalist, historian, and author of both fiction and non-fiction (which he prefers to call "verity"), including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), and most recently...
National Book Award for Nonfiction 1987 The Making of the Atomic Bomb
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction 1987 The Making of the Atomic Bomb
x Tina Rosenberg Tina Rosenberg.jpg 1960 MacArthur Fellowship Jul 1987 Journalism
Tina Rosenberg (born 1960 in Brooklyn, New York) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. She frequently writes for The New York Times Magazine In 1987 she won a MacArthur Fellowship, which she used to move to South America. Her...
National Book Award for Nonfiction 1995 The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1996 The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
x David K. Shipler David K. Shipler.jpg Dec 3, 1942 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1987 Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
David K. Shipler (born December 3, 1942) is an American author who won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1987 for Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land. He is an alumnus of Dartmouth College and served on the College's Board...
x Joseph Lelyveld Joseph Lelyveld.jpg Apr 5, 1937 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1986 Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
Joseph Lelyveld (born April 5, 1937) was executive editor of the New York Times from 1994 to 2001, and interim executive editor in 2003 after the resignation of Howell Raines. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, and a frequent...
x J. Anthony Lukas J. Anthony Lukas.jpg Apr 25, 1933 National Book Award for Nonfiction 1985 Common Ground
Jay Anthony Lukas, aka J. Anthony Lucas (April 25, 1933–June 5, 1997), was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and author, probably best known for his 1985 book Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, a...
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting 1968  
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1986 Common Ground
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction 1985 Common Ground
x Paul Starr Paul Starr.jpg May 12, 1949 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1984 The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
Paul Starr (May 12, 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. He is also the co-editor (with Robert Kuttner) and co-founder (with Robert Kuttner and Robert Reich) of The American Prospect, a...
Bancroft Prize 1984 The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
x Susan Sheehan Susan Sheehan.jpg Aug 24, 1937 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1983 Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
Susan Sheehan (nee Margulies) (born August 24, 1937), is a U.S. journalist. Born in Vienna, Austria, she won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1983 for her book Is There No Place On Earth For Me?. The book details the experiences of a...
x Tracy Kidder Tracy Kidder promoting his book My Detachment. Picture from Eye on books Nov 12, 1945 National Book Award for General Nonfiction 1982 The Soul of a New Machine
John Tracy Kidder (born November 12, 1945) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer of the 1981 nonfiction narrative, The Soul of a New Machine, about the creation of a new computer at Data General Corporation. His book, Strength in What Remains,...
PEN/Winship Award 1990 Among Schoolchildren
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1982 The Soul of a New Machine
Ambassador Book Award for American Studies 1990 Among Schoolchildren
x Carl E. Schorske Carl E. Schorske - Fin-de-Siècle Vienna.jpg Mar 15, 1915 MacArthur Fellowship Jul 1981 History
Carl Emil Schorske (born March 15, 1915 in New York City) is an American cultural historian and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. In 1981 he won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and...
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1981 Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
x Robert Coles Robert Coles.jpg Oct 12, 1929 MacArthur Fellowship Jul 1981 Psychology and Cognitive Science
Robert Coles (born October 12, 1929) is an American author, child psychiatrist, and professor at Harvard University. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he attended Milton Academy and Harvard College, where he studied English literature. He originally...
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1973 Children of Crisis
Presidential Medal of Freedom 1998  
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards 1968 Children of Crisis
x Douglas Hofstadter Hofstadter2002 Feb 15, 1945 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1980 Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945 in New York, New York) is an American academic whose research focuses on consciousness, thinking and creativity. He is best known for his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, first...
American Book Award 1980 Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
National Book Award for Science 1980 Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
x Norman Mailer Norman Mailer, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Jan 31, 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1980 The Executioner's Song
Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and film director. Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, John McPhee, and Tom Wolfe,...
Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters 2005  
National Book Award for Arts and Letters 1969 The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1969 Armies of the Night
Helmerich Award 1992  
x E. O. Wilson Edward O. Wilson Jun 10, 1929 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1979 On Human Nature
Edward Osborne Wilson (born June 10, 1929) is an American biologist, researcher (sociobiology, biodiversity), theorist (consilience, biophilia), naturalist (conservationist) and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, a branch of entomology...
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1991 The Ants
Crafoord Prize    
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences 1976  
x William W. Warner William W. Warner.jpg Apr 2, 1920 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1977 Beautiful Swimmers
William W. Warner (April 2, 1920 – April 18, 2008) was an American biologist and writer. Warner was a 1943 graduate of Princeton University. During World War II, Warner served in the Pacific Theater of operations as an aerial photograph analyst with...
x Robert Neil Butler Robert Neil Butler.jpg Jan 21, 1927 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1976 Why Survive? Being Old In America
Robert Neil Butler (born January 21, 1927) is a physician, gerontologist, psychiatrist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, who was the first director of the National Institute on Aging. Dr. Butler is known for his work on the social needs and the...
x David Brion Davis David Brion Davis.jpg Feb 16, 1927 National Book Award for History and Biography 1976 The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
David Brion Davis (born February 16, 1927) is a principal authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world. He is the the Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and founder and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman...
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1967 The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards 1967 The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
Bancroft Prize 1976 The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
x Carl Sagan Sagan2.jpg Nov 9, 1934 John W. Campbell Memorial Award: Special Non-Fiction Award 1974 Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective
Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for...
Peabody Award 1980 Cosmos
Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book 1981 Cosmos
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1978 The Dragons of Eden
Oersted Medal    
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x Ernest Becker Ernest Becker.jpg Sep 27, 1924 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1974 The Denial of Death
Dr. Ernest Becker (September 27, 1924, Massachusetts - March 6, 1974, Vancouver, British Columbia) was a cultural anthropologist and interdisciplinary scientific thinker and writer. Becker was born in Springfield, Massachusetts to Jewish immigrant...
x Frances FitzGerald Frances FitzGerald by David Shankbone Oct 21, 1940 National Book Award for Contemporary Affairs 1973 Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
Frances FitzGerald (born October 21, 1940) is an American journalist and author. She is primarily known for her acclaimed journalistic account of the Vietnam War. FitzGerald was the daughter of New York lawyer Desmond FitzGerald and socialite...
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1973 Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
Ambassador Book Award for American Studies 1987 Cities on a hill
Bancroft Prize 1973 Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
x John Toland John Toland.jpg Jun 29, 1912 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1971 The Rising Sun
John Willard Toland (June 29, 1912 in La Crosse, Wisconsin - January 4, 2004 in Danbury, Connecticut) was an American author and historian. He is best known for his biography of Adolf Hitler. Toland tried to write history as a straightforward...
x Erik Erikson Erik Erikson Jun 15, 1902 National Book Award for Philosophy and Religion 1970 Gandhi's Truth
Erik Erikson (June 15, 1902 – May 12, 1994) was a Danish-German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on social development of human beings. He may be most famous for coining the phrase identity crisis. His son,...
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1970 Gandhi's Truth
x René Dubos René Dubos Feb 20, 1901 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1969 So Human an Animal
René Jules Dubos (February 20, 1901 – February 20, 1982) was a French-American microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, humanist, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book So Human An Animal. He is...
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research 1948  
x Will Durant WillDurant1961 Nov 5, 1885 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1968 The Story of Civilization
William James Durant (5 November 1885 – 7 November 1981) was a prolific American writer, historian, and philosopher. He is best known for the 11-volume The Story of Civilization, written in collaboration with his wife Ariel and published between...
Presidential Medal of Freedom 1977  
x Ariel Durant ArielDurant1961 May 10, 1898 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1968 The Story of Civilization
Ariel Durant, born Chaya Kaufman, (10 May 1898 – 25 October 1981) was the co-author of The Story of Civilization. Durant was born in Proskurov, (now Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine) to Ethel Appel Kaufman and Joseph Kaufman. The family emigrated to the United...
Presidential Medal of Freedom 1977  
x Edwin Way Teale Edwin Way Teale in 1976 Jun 2, 1899 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1966 Wandering Through Winter
Edwin Way Teale (June 2, 1899 – October 18, 1980) was an American naturalist, photographer, and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer. Teale's works serve as primary source material documenting environmental conditions across North America from 1930 - 1980....
x Howard Mumford Jones   Apr 16, 1892 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1965 O Strange New World
Howard Mumford Jones (April 16, 1892 - May 11, 1980) was a U.S. writer, literary critic, and professor of English at Harvard University. Jones was the book editor for The Boston Evening Transcript. In February, 1954 Mr.** Jones gave the dedicatory...
x Richard Hofstadter Richard Hofstadter.jpg Aug 6, 1916 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1964 Anti-intellectualism in American Life
Richard Hofstadter (6 August 1916 – 24 October 1970) was an American public intellectual of the 1950s, an historian and DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. In the course of his career, Hofstadter became the “iconic...
Pulitzer Prize for History 1956 The Age of Reform
x Barbara Tuchman Barbara W. Tuchman.jpg Jan 30, 1912 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1963 The Guns of August
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American self-trained historian and author. She became best known for top-selling book The Guns of August, a history of the prelude and first month of World War I which won the...
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1972 Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945
National Book Award for History 1980 A Distant Mirror
St. Louis Literary Award 1971  
x Theodore White Theodore White on a book cover May 6, 1915 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1962 The Making of the President, 1960
Theodore Harold White (May 6, 1915 – May 9, 1986) was an American political journalist, historian, and novelist, best known for his accounts of the 1960, 1964, 1968, and 1972 presidential elections. Born May 6, 1915, in Boston, Massachusetts, the...
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