Literary Library

Gordon S. Wood

by Angela Beck
  November 27, 1933 - June 7, 2026American historian and professorAuthor of "The Radicalism of the American Revolution" (for which he won a Pulitz...
Academic American History American Revolution Benjamin Franklin Historian National Humanities Medal Professor Pulitzer Prize Thomas Jefferson US History

Marilynne Robinson

by Angela Beck
November 26, 1943 - American novelist and essayistAuthor of "Housekeeping" (for which she was on the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlist in 1982)...
Essayist Library of Congress Man Booker Prize National Book Award National Book Critics Circle Award National Humanities Medal Novel Novelist Pulitzer Prize