# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-levering-lewis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:58:03.819Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-levering-lewis"
name: "David Levering Lewis"
slug: "david-levering-lewis"
description: "David Levering Lewis is an American historian, a Julius Silver University Professor, and professor emeritus of history at New York University. He is twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, for part one and part two of his biography of W. E. B. Du Bois. He is the first author to win Pulitzer Prizes for biography for two successive volumes on the same subject."
tagline: "American historian (born 1936)"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936-05-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump