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Robert K. Massie

American historian (1929-2019) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 90

Robert Kinloch Massie III was an American journalist and historian. He devoted much of his career to studying and writing about the House of Romanov, Russia's imperial family from 1613 to 1917. Massie was awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for Peter the Great: His Life and World.

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2019Died2 December 20192012PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyAward1981Pulitzer Prize for BiographyAward1950Rhodes ScholarshipAward1929Born5 January 1929

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PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography2012
Pulitzer Prize for Biography1981
Rhodes Scholarship1950

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He also received awards for his book Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (2011).

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United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1929 to 2019 · aged 90

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