He has taught at Morgan State University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of the District of Columbia. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Lewis also won the Bancroft Prize, the Francis Parkman Prize, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for his two-volume biography of Du Bois, 15 years in the research and writing, and hailed by critics as “definitive” and “magisterial.” Kirkus wrote: “Du Bois has finally found a Boswell worthy of his achievements as an African-American reformer who fought for human rights in the US and the wider world.”Ī spectacular scholar who has written eight books and edited two, Lewis was educated at Fisk and Columbia Universities, and received his Ph.D. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and The American Century, 1919–1963. Du Bois: Biography Of A Race, 1868–1919 and W. He is the first author to have won two Pulitzer Prizes for Biography for his successive volumes on W. Lewis, 85, an American historian, is the Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History at New York University. This prize is bestowed annually to a distinguished colleague who has made major contributions to the advancement of the art and craft of biography. Among his honors, David Levering Lewis received the 2009 National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama at the White House on February 25, 2010.ĭavid Levering Lewis is the winner of the 12th BIO Award.
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