William S. McFeely
1930
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2019
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Yale University, Amherst College, Ramsey High School
occupation: historian, university teacher
award received: Lincoln Prize, Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, Guggenheim Fellowship
William Shield McFeely (September 25, 1930 – December 11, 2019) was an American historian known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1981 biography of Ulysses S. Grant, as well as his contributions to a reevaluation of the Reconstruction era, and for advancing the field of African-American history. He retired as the Abraham Baldwin Professor of the Humanities emeritus at the University of Georgia in 1997, and was affiliated with Harvard University since 2006. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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