William Taubman

William Taubman
Taubman in 2018
Born
William Chase Taubman

(1941-11-13) November 13, 1941 (age 83)
SpouseJane A. Taubman
AwardsNational Book Critics Circle Award
Pulitzer Prize for Biography (2004)
Academic background
EducationBronx High School of Science
Alma materHarvard University (B.A.)
Columbia University (M.A., Ph.D.)
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical science
InstitutionsAmherst College
Notable worksKhrushchev: The Man and His Era (2003), Gorbachev: His Life and Times (2017)
Websitewilliamtaubmanbooks.com
Taubman with Pavel Palazhchenko, a former interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev

William Chase Taubman (born November 13, 1941, in New York City) is an American political scientist. His biography of Nikita Khrushchev won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2004 and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 2003.

He is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1962, an M.A. from Columbia University in 1965, a Certificate of the Russian Institute in 1965, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1969.

He is currently Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science at Amherst College.

Taubman was the recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim fellowship.[1]

  1. ^ "Guggenheim Foundation 2006 Fellows". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. 2006. Archived from the original on October 27, 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-10.