David Levering Lewis

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Born: 1936-05-25
From: Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Gender: Male
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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia David Levering Lewis (born May 25, 1936) is an American historian, a Julius Silver University Professor, and a professor 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.

Awards & Nominations11 won ยท 2 nominated

๐Ÿ† Won

National Humanities Medal

2009
๐Ÿ† Won

Berlin Prize

2008
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Pulitzer Prize for Biography

W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919โ€“1963

2001
๐Ÿ† Won

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919โ€“1963

2001
Nominated

National Book Award for Nonfiction

W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919โ€“1963

2000
๐Ÿ† Won

MacArthur Fellows Program

1999
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Award

1994
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Pulitzer Prize for Biography

W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868โ€“1919

1994
๐Ÿ† Won

Francis Parkman Prize

1994
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Bancroft Prize

W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868โ€“1919

1994
๐Ÿ† Won

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

1994
Nominated

National Book Award for Nonfiction

W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868โ€“1919

1993
๐Ÿ† Won

Guggenheim Fellowship

1986