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Barbara Tuchman

Who

Barbara Tuchman · Arts & Literature

What

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian ('The Guns of August')

When

1912, New York City, United States — 1989, Greenwich, Connecticut, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Barbara Tuchman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian ('The Guns of August')

How & why

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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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature

Contributions & Sources

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian ('The Guns of August')

1912

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature