DAVID HERBERT DONALD
David Herbert Donald is the author of numerous books, including "Lincoln's Herndon, Lincoln Reconsidered," and "The Civil War and Reconstruction." He has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for biography: in 1961 for "Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War" and in 1988 for "Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe." The Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard University, he has also taught at Johns Hopkins, Princeton, Oxford, and Columbia. A native of Mississippi and the past president of the Southern Historical Association, he received his graduate training at the University of Illinois. He lives in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
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