Barbara Tuchman
Barbara Tuchman · Arts & Literature
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian ('The Guns of August')
1912, New York City, United States — 1989, Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
United States
Barbara Tuchman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian ('The Guns of August')
Tuchman was an American historian and author who won the Pulitzer Prize twice—for The Guns of August (1963), on the outbreak of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1972)—reaching vast readerships with narrative history of scholarly rigor. She came from a prominent Jewish family in New York (the Wertheim and Morgenthau families); her Jewish background is well documented.
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Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian ('The Guns of August')
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