Adams University Professor Bernard Bailyn garnered the Pulitzer Prize in history yesterday, joining Nieman Fellow Nancy. Lee and more than six other Harvard winners, the Pulitzer Prize Board of Columbia University announced.
Of the other 18 prizes awarded yesterday, four went to Harvard alumni, two to former Neiman fellows, and one to a former lecturer in a "Harvard sweep" of the prizes, said a Columbia spokesman.
The Philadelphia Inquirer took first place in the Pulitzer sweepstakes with three awards--two for investigative reporting and one for feature reporting--while the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times each won two.
Bailyn was honored with the nation's most prestigious writing award yesterday for his book, "Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution," Which was published last year.
Bailyn's work was chosen over two biographies, "Eisenhower: at War, 1943-1945" by David E. Eisenhower and "Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference" by David J. Garrow.
The Pulitzer is Bailyn's second; he won his first in 1968 for "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution."
The expert on colonial America is currently on sabbatical in England and could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Lee, The New York Times' newsroom graphics editor, was honored--along with the Time's staff members who covered the Challenger disaster and its aftermath--for national reporting. David E. Sanger 82, who wrote for the Crimson while
Adams University Professor Bernard Bailyn's
latest Pulitzer-prize winning work has left other
scholars wondering just what there is that he
can't do.
Over the course of his career, Bailyn's
scholarship has spanned intellectual,
biographical, business and economic history. And
with his latest work, "Voyagers to the West: A
Passage in Peopling of America on the Eve of the
Revolution," scholars say that the 65-year-old
scholar has demonstrated that he is equally adept
in the field of demographic history.
Ten years in the making, Bailyn's work won the
prestigious Pulitzer--his second--yesterday. The
book is the first volume of the historian's
planned multi-volume, exhaustive account of the
colonization of British North America
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