Ariel Durant
Ariel Durant · Arts & Literature
Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction
1898, Proskurov, Russian Empire — 1981, Los Angeles, USA
Ukraine · United States
Ariel Durant is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction
Ariel Durant, born Chaya Kaufman to a Jewish family in the Russian Empire (now Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine), was an American writer who, with her husband Will Durant, co-authored the monumental eleven-volume 'The Story of Civilization', winning the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for 'Rousseau and Revolution'. She emigrated as a child to the United States and became an equal partner in one of the most widely read historical projects of the century. Her Jewish immigrant origins are documented.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction
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Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction
