Edmund Morris: 1940 – 2019

We are saddened to share that Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Edmund Morris passed away on May 24, 2019, at the age of seventy-eight. Best known for his trilogy on Theodore Roosevelt and his boundary-pushing biography of Ronald Reagan—the only biography ever authorized by a sitting president—Morris was a singularly skilled writer with the rare talent of

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Tony Horwitz: 1958 – 2019

Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and bestselling author Tony Horwitz died suddenly on May 27 in Washington, D.C. of an apparent cardiac arrest. He was 60 years old. Tony was a native of Washington, D.C., and a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. As a newspaper reporter he spent a decade overseas,

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David Brion Davis: 1927-2019

David Brion Davis, distinguished author and historian, passed away on Sunday, April 14th 2019, at the age of 92. Davis was Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, and founder and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. Throughout his career, he wrote and edited sixteen

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