David Herbert Donald Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
David Herbert Donald was born on October 1, 1920 in Goodman, Mississippi, USA. He is known for his work on American Experience (1988). He was married to Aida DiPace. He died on May 17, 2009 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Millsaps College
Nationality
American
Spouse
Aïda DiPace Donald
Children
Bruce Donald
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, Lincoln Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada
Nominations
National Book Award for Nonfiction, National Book Award for History and Biography (Nonfiction)
Star Sign
Libra
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Quote
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When I started out, I wasn't interested in Lincoln, and frankly found him a tiresome old fellow who was rather long-winded, told too many stories... As I grew older, I realized the jokes and stories he told were really very funny, and they always had a point to them...the way he worked with people, and what an extraordinarily adept politician he was.
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Fact
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He was an eminent Lincoln scholar and Civil War historian. He wrote several books on the Civil War and historic figures of that period.
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He earned his bachelor's degree at Millsaps College in Mississippi; a master's degree in history at the University of Illinois; and a doctorate for which he studied with eminent Civil War scholar James G. Randall.
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He taught at Columbia, Smith, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, and Harvard.
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He won his first Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1961, for "Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War". In 1988, he won his second Pulitzer for "Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe".
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Winner of the 2000 Richard Nelson Current Award of Achievement, awarded annually by the Lincoln Forum.
$19 Million
