david mccullough the pulitzer prize winning author

“The Wright Brothers” became another best-seller and fortune was smiling upon me because the subject matter, our beloved local geniuses who invented powered flight, made it so that the author was coming to Dayton for an event. Then in 2015 he published another biography. Explore Famous Wright brothers historian galvanizes Wright State students I assumed I would never get another chance to interview him. The thing which really struck me was that he was very down to earth. Explore David McCullough, Pulitzer-winning historian, dies at 89 David McCullough, the bestselling author whose biographies on Presidents Harry Truman and John Adams won Pulitzer Prizes, has died. The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of an American Founding Father. He was in town to meet with President George W. David McCullough is as well a two-time winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, and for his work overall he has been honored by the National Book Foundation Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Award, the National Humanities Medal, and the Gold Medal for Biography given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. I finally had to end the call because David was expected at the White House. That day he was talkative and warm and appreciative that I had read his book and was so engaged with the material.

OMG, that voice was the closest thing to the voice of God. He was a bravura historian and public intellectual whose biographies of Harry Truman and John Adams won Pulitzer Prizes, and whose best-selling stories of. When he answered the phone, I became almost speechless as I was in awe. I called him at his hotel in Washington, D.C.

I got the opportunity to interview McCullough on my radio show. Like his masterly, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Truman, David McCulloughs John Adams has the sweep and vitality of a great novel. In 2002 “John Adams” had come out in paperback and was about to win another Pulitzer.

David mccullough the pulitzer prize winning author