Garry Wills
Autor de Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
Sobre El Autor
Garry Wills, 1934 - Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1934. Wills received a B.A. from St. Louis University in 1957, an M.A. from Xavier University of Cincinnati in 1958, an M.A. (1959) and a Ph.D. (1961) in classics from Yale. Wills was a junior fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies mostrar más from 1961-62, an associate professor of classics and adjunct professor of humanities at Johns Hopkins University from 1962-80. Wills was the first Washington Irving Professor of Modern American History and Literature at Union College, and was also a Regents Professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara, Silliman Seminarist at Yale, Christian Gauss Lecturer at Princeton, W.W. Cook Lecturer at the University of Michigan Law School, Hubert Humphrey Seminarist at Macalester College, Welch Professor of American Studies at Notre Dame University and Henry R. Luce Professor of American Culture and Public Policy at Northwestern University (1980-88). Wills is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and his articles appear frequently in The New York Review of Books. Wills is the author of "Lincoln at Gettysburg," which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1993 and the NEH Presidential Medal, "John Wayne's America," "A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government" and "The Kennedy Imprisonment." Other awards received by Wills include the National Book Critics Award, the Merle Curti Award of the organization of American Historians, the Wilbur Cross Medal from Yale Graduate School, the Harold Washington Book Award and the Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting, which was for writing and narrating the 1988 "Frontline" documentary "The Candidates." (Bowker Author Biography) Garry Wills is a Pulitzer-prize winning historian and cultural critic. A former professor of Greek at Yale University, his many books include Lincoln at Gettysburg, Reagan's America, Witches and Jesuits, and a biography of Saint Augustine. He lives in Evanston, Indiana. (Publisher Provided) Garry Wills is a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine and The New York Review of Books. He lives in Evanston, Illinois. (Publisher Provided) mostrar menos
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Obras de Garry Wills
Font of Life: Ambrose, Augustine, and the Mystery of Baptism (Emblems of Antiquity) (2012) 78 copias
Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (The Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities Series) (1600) 60 copias
Nixon Agonistes (Mentor Series) Upd Exp edition by Wills, Garry (1971) Mass Market Paperback 1 copia
Roman Culture, Weapons and Man 1 copia
What the Gospels meant 1 copia
Sappho 31 and Catullus 51 1 copia
Martial's Epigrams 1 copia
Niet de meest conventionele kandidaat Abraham Lincoln en Barack Obama over ras in Amerika (2009) 1 copia
The Theodore H. White Lecture 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Contribuidor — 429 copias
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Contribuidor — 153 copias
Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? American Conservative Thought in the Twentieth Century (1970) — Contribuidor — 82 copias
What Is Conservatism?: A New Edition of the Classic by 12 Leading Conservatives (1964) — Contribuidor — 45 copias
The William and Mary Quarterly, July 1987: Constitution of the United States — Contribuidor — 2 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Wills, Garry
- Otros nombres
- WILLS, Garry
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1934-05-22
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Evanston, Illinois, USA
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Baltimore, Maryland, USA - Educación
- Yale University (MA|1959|Ph.D|Classics|1961)
Xavier University (MA|1958)
St. Louis University (BA|1957) - Ocupaciones
- historian
public intellectual
university professor - Relaciones
- Buckley, William F., Jr. (employer)
- Organizaciones
- Northwestern University
Johns Hopkins University
Roman Catholic Church
National Review - Premios y honores
- National Humanities Medal (1998)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1995)
Pulitzer Prize (1993)
American Philosophical Society (2003)
St. Louis Literary Award (2004)
Richard Nelson Current Award of Achievement (2001) (mostrar todos 9)
National Book Critics Circle Award (1978, 1992)
Order of Lincoln (2006)
Merle Curti Award (1979)
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- Obras
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- También por
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- Miembros
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- Popularidad
- #2,004
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 149
- ISBNs
- 256
- Idiomas
- 6
- Favorito
- 23