David McCullough

BIO

David McCullough was born in 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and educated there and at Yale. Author of Truman, Brave Companions, Mornings on Horseback, The Path Between the Seas, The Great Bridge, and The Johnstown Flood, he has received the Pulitzer Prize (in 1993, for Truman), the Frances Parkman Prize, the Charles Frankel Prize from President Clinton and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Los Angeles Times Biography Prize, an emmy for his work in public television and is twice winner of the National Book Award, for history and for biography.

McCullough is the president of the Society of American Historians and was honored with the Pennsylvania Governor's Award for Excellence in the Humanities, the Pennsylvania Society's Gold Medal, the Harry S. Truman Award for Service, a Guggenheim fellowship, and has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds twenty-one honorary degrees and has taught at Cornell University, Dartmouth College, and the Wesleyan University Writers Conference.

Perhaps most recognizably, McCullough is the host of The American Experience, and narrator of numerous PBS documentaries including The Civil War.

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