Friday, January 30, 2015

Today in 1912, in New York City,

Author and historian Barbara Tuchman was born.

 
Ms. Tuchman is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who is best known for her book The Guns of August (1962), a historical analysis of early World War I.  She earned her first Pulitzer in 1963.   She went on to win another Pulitzer in 1970 for Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45, a book about the relationship between America and China during World War II. Tuchman died on February 6, 1989, in Greenwich, Connecticut.
[January 30, 1912]

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