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David Herbert Donald

American historian of the American Civil War

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Lived 1920–2009, aged 89United States

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Aged 89
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Updated 2026-06-23

David Herbert Donald was an American historian, best known for his 1995 biography of Abraham Lincoln. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, for books about Thomas Wolfe and Charles Sumner; he published more than 30 books on United States political and literary figures and the history of the American South.

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