Gordon S. Wood (born November 27, 1933) is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University and the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution. His book The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 won a 1970 Bancroft Prize. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal.
He was awarded the 2010 National Humanities Medal for scholarship that provides insight into the founding of our nation and the drafting of the United States Constitution. He is an author and editor of 18 books, including "The Radicalism of the American Revolution," for which he earned a Pulitzer Prize.