David Levering Lewis

David Levering Lewis
Born (1936-05-25) May 25, 1936 (age 88)
Alma materFisk University
Columbia University
London School of Economics
AwardsPulitzer Prize (1994, 2001)
National Humanities Medal 2009
Bancroft Prize
Francis Parkman Prize
Scientific career
FieldsHistory
InstitutionsNew York University
WebsiteNYU faculty page
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David Levering Lewis (born May 25, 1936) is an American historian, a Julius Silver University Professor, and professor emeritus of history at New York University. He is twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, for part one and part two of his biography of W. E. B. Du Bois (in 1994 and 2001, respectively). He is the first author to win Pulitzer Prizes for biography for two successive volumes on the same subject.

The author of eight books and editor of two more, Lewis concentrates on comparative history with special focus on twentieth-century United States social history and civil rights. His interests include nineteenth-century Africa, twentieth-century France, and Islamic Spain.

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