Garry Wills
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Garry Wills, one of our most distinguished historians and critics, is the author of numerous books. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia and grew up in Michigan and Wisconsin. He earned a B.A. from Saint Louis University in 1957. William F. Buckley, Jr. hired him as a drama critic for National Review magazine at the age of 23. He received his PhD in classics from Yale University in 1961. Wills is a distinguished historian and the author of numerous books including the Pulitzer Prize winning ”Lincoln at Gettysburg”. He was awarded the National Medal for the Humanities in 1998. He has twice won the National Book Critics Circle Award, including as a co-winner for nonfiction in 1978 for ”Inventing America: Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence”, a book that also won the Merle Curti Award. Wills joined the faculty of the history department at Northwestern University in 1980, where he is currently an emeritus professor. He is also a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.
Pulitzer Prize for ”Lincoln at Gettysburg” Lincoln Scholar Two National Book Critics Circle Awards – one for ”Inventing America
A Necessary Evil | A necessary evil : | Bomb power : | Certain trumpets : | Explaining America : | Head and heart : | Henry Adams and the making of America / | Henry adams and the making of america | Inventing America : | James Madison / | John Wayne’s America : | Lincoln at Gettysburg : | Lincoln at gettysburg : | Martial’s Epigrams : | Mr. Jefferson’s university | Mr. Jefferson’s university / | Negro president : | Nixon agonistes : | Outside looking in : | Papal sin : | REAGAN’S AMERICA : | Reagan’s America / | Saint Augustine | Saint Augustine / | The Kennedy imprisonment : | The rosary : | Under God : | Venice – Lion City | Venice: lion city : | What Jesus meant | What Jesus meant / | What Paul meant | What Paul meant / | What the Gospels meant | What the Gospels meant / | Why I am a Catholic | Why I am a Catholic / | Why priests? : | Witches and Jesuits :