John Leonard Clive | |
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| Born | Hans Leo Kleyff September 25, 1924 Berlin, Germany |
| Died | January 7, 1990 (aged 65) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education | University of North Carolina (BA) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Awards | National Book Award for Biography (1974) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Historian |
| Institutions | University of Chicago Harvard University |
John Leonard Clive (born Hans Leo Kleyff; September 25, 1924 – January 7, 1990) was an American historian. He was a professor at Harvard University and the University of Chicago. He is most well known for his biography of Thomas Babington Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian, for which he won the National Book Award for Biography and History.