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Richard Rhodes

Historian, journalist and writer from the USA · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1937 · age 89

Richard Lee Rhodes is an American historian, journalist, and author of both fiction and nonfiction, best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986).

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1997Watson, Helen, Miles, and Audrey Davis PrizeAward1988Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionAward1987National Book AwardAwardNational Book Critics Circle Award in NonfictionAward1974Guggenheim FellowshipAward1937Born4 July 1937

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Watson, Helen, Miles, and Audrey Davis Prize1997
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction1988
National Book Award1987
National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction1987
Guggenheim Fellowship1974

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United States
Category
Writers
Type
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Status
Living
Dates
Born 1937 · age 89

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