Ariel Durant

Ariel Durant
Durant in 1967
Born
Chaya Kaufman

(1898-05-10)May 10, 1898
Proskurov, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire
(now Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine)
DiedOctober 25, 1981(1981-10-25) (aged 83)
Los Angeles, California
Occupation(s)Historian and writer
Spouse
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(m. 1913)​

Ariel Durant (/dəˈrænt/; May 10, 1898 – October 25, 1981)[1] was a Ukrainian-born American researcher and writer. She was the coauthor of The Story of Civilization with her husband, Will Durant. They were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.

  1. ^ Mitgang, Herbert (October 28, 1981). "Ariel Durant, Historian is Dead; Wrote The Story of Civilization". The New York Times. Retrieved June 19, 2013.