Barbara W. Tuchman

American historian and author (1912-1989) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 77

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman was an American historian, journalist and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August (1962), a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971), a biography of General Joseph Stilwell.

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1989Died6 February 19891980Jefferson LectureAwardNational Book AwardAward1972Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionAward1971St. Louis Literary AwardAward1963Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionAward1912Born30 January 1912