David McCullough
- Birth: July 7, 1933
- Death: August 7, 2022
- Nationality: American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Education: Yale University (BA)
- Author URL: https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/David-McCullough/938
- Books Written
- The Johnstown Flood: The Incredible Story Behind One of the Most Devastating Disasters America Has Ever Known
- The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge 1972 Brooklyn Bridge
- The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870–1914
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Truman
- 1776
- In the Dark Streets Shineth: A 1941 Christmas Eve Story
- The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
- The Wright Brothers
- The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand Fo
- The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
- Biography
an American popular historian. He was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In 2006, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the United States' highest civilian awards.[2][3]
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, McCullough earned a degree in English literature from Yale University. His first book was The Johnstown Flood (1968), and he wrote nine more on such topics as Harry S. Truman, John Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Panama Canal, and the Wright brothers. McCullough also narrated numerous documentaries, such as The Civil War by Ken Burns, as well as the 2003 film Seabiscuit, and he hosted American Experience for twelve years.
McCullough's two Pulitzer Prize–winning books, Truman and John Adams, were adapted by HBO into a TV film and a miniseries, respectively. From Wikipedia
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