Joseph P. Lash

1909 - 1987

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country of citizenship: United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Columbia University, City College of New York, DeWitt Clinton High School

occupation: biographer

award received: Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, National Book Award

Joseph Paul Lash (December 2, 1909 – August 22, 1987) was an American radical political activist, journalist, and writer. A close friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, Lash won both the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the National Book Award in Biography for Eleanor and Franklin (1971), the first of two volumes he wrote about the former First Lady. Source: Wikipedia (en)