david mccullough the pulitzer prize winning author

The author was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I want it to be something that moves the reader. His two Pulitzer Prize winner books, John Adams and Truman, are presented as TV Films and miniseries by HBO.

“And I’m striving to write a book that might-might-qualify as literature. The 1993 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography For a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author, three thousand dollars (3,000). “I think of writing history as an art form,” McCullough said in a 2008 documentary. His tome on the Brooklyn Bridge, The Great Bridge, was made into a documentary by Ken Burns, who went on to have McCullough narrate six films. It morphed into an astonishingly successful career writing histories and biographies, including Truman, which topped The New York Times’ bestseller list for 43 weeks, and John Adams, which shot to No. McCullough published his first history book, The Johnstown Flood, in 1968 after struggling to find much information about the deadly 1889 flood. David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, author and narrator whose books vividly bought American history to life, died Sunday at his home in Hingham, Massachusetts, his family confirmed.

David mccullough the pulitzer prize winning author