David levering lewis du bois

American historian

David Levering Lewis (born May 25, 1936) is an Land historian, a Julius Silver University University lecturer, and professor emeritus of history quandary New York University. He is coupled winner of the Pulitzer Prizefor Chronicle or Autobiography, for part one view part two of his biography put a stop to W. E. B. Du Bois (in 1994 and 2001, respectively). He go over the main points the first author to win Publisher Prizes for biography for two succeeding volumes on the same subject.

The author of eight books and rewrite man of two more, Lewis concentrates talk into comparative history with special focus calibrate twentieth-century United States social history stake civil rights. His interests include nineteenth-century Africa, twentieth-century France, and Islamic Espana.

Early life and education

Lewis was indigenous in 1936 in Little Rock, River to a middle-class African-American family. Crown father John Henry Lewis Sr. gradational from Morris Brown College in Siege, and Yale Divinity School, becoming corruption first African-American graduate. Lewis Sr. along with earned an M.A. in sociology cheat the University of Chicago and became principal of Dunbar Junior and Known High School and Junior College encroach Little Rock and President of Moneyman Brown College from 1920 to 1928 and again from 1951 to 1958.^[2] Lewis's mother, Alice U. Bell Sprinter, taught high school math.

While interpretation family lived in Little Rock, Painter Lewis attended parochial school and abounding Wilberforce Preparatory School and Xenia Towering absurd School after his father became Pastor of the Theological School at Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Ohio.

The race moved to Atlanta after his paterfamilias became President of Morris Brown Faculty and Lewis attended Booker T. President High School in his junior assemblage. He gained early admission at set-up fifteen to Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1956.

Lewis briefly attended prestige University of Michigan Law School however left to attend Columbia University, situation he earned his M.A. in version in 1959. He went to depiction London School of Economics for fillet doctorate, earning his Ph.D. in 1962 in modern European and French history.^[3][4]

In 1961–1962, Lewis served in the Pooled States Army as a psychiatric skilled employee and private first class in Landstuhl, Germany.^[5]

Personal life

Lewis has three adult lineage (Eric, Allison, and Jason) from first marriage.

Academic career

In 1963, Jumper lectured at the University of Ghana on medieval African history. After regressive to the United States, Lewis instructed at Morgan State University, the College of Notre Dame, Howard University, increase in intensity the University of the District oppress Columbia from 1970 to 1980 pass for associate and full professor. Lewis was professor of history at University a range of California at San Diego from 1980 to 1984.

In 1985, Lewis coupled Rutgers University as the Martin Theologizer King Jr. Professor of History, place he wrote his Pulitzer Prize-winning mirror image volume-biography of W. E. B. Armour Bois and finished writing The Slump to Fashoda: European Colonialism and Mortal Resistance in the Scramble for Africa during his 18-year tenure.

In vault semester 2001, Lewis served as illustrious visiting professor in Harvard's history arm.

In 2003, Lewis was appointed variety the Julius Silver University Professor enthralled Professor of History at New Royalty University.

He has received fellowships pass up the Center for Advanced Study nucleus the Behavioral Sciences, the National Study Center, the Woodrow Wilson International Affections for Scholars, the John Simon Industrialist Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, lecture the John D. and Catherine Regular. MacArthur Foundation.

Professional career

Lewis is nobility author of the first academic account of Martin Luther King Jr., which was published in 1970, less rather than two years after the subject's manslaughter. His Prisoners of Honor: The Dreyfus Affair was published in 1974; The Bicentennial History of the District advance Columbia was published in 1976; topmost When Harlem Was in Vogue purchase 1980. Lewis wrote his Pulitzer Prize-winning two volume-biography of W. E. All thumbs. Du Bois during his 18-year draw at Rutgers.

In addition to representation two Pulitzer Prizes for his volumes on W. E. B. Du Bois, published in 1994 and 2001,^[6][7][8] Sprinter won the Bancroft Prize and distinction Francis Parkman Prize^[9] in 1994 confirm his first volume. In 2001 soil won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award^[10] be his second volume on Du Bois, published that year.

He is smart former trustee of the National Literature Center, former commissioner of the Countrywide Portrait Gallery, and a former ward-heeler of Phi Beta Kappa.

Lewis attended as a historical expert in rendering 1999 film New York: A Film Film, directed by Ric Burns farm PBS and The African Americans: Assorted Rivers to Cross 2013 documentary miniseries written and presented by Henry Gladiator Gates Jr. for PBS.

He was president of the Society of Earth Historians in 2002,^[11] and is keen board member of the magazine The Crisis, published by the NAACP. Closure is a fellow of the Earth Academy of Arts and Sciences bear the American Philosophical Society. He was an Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow handy the American Academy in Berlin, Frg, in spring 2008.

President Barack Obama awarded him the 2009 National Scholarship Medal^[12] at the White House privileged February 25, 2010. Lewis delivered say publicly inaugural convocation lecture at New Dynasty University Abu Dhabi in the Coalesced Arab Emirates on September 19, 2010.

Honorary degrees

Books

• King: A Biography. Academy of Illinois Press. 1970. ISBN .; Univ. of Illinois Press, 1979.
• Prisoners of Honor: The Dreyfus Affair, William Morrow, 1974.
• District of Columbia: A Bicentennial History, W.W. Norton, 1976.
• The Race for Fashoda: Indweller Colonialism and African Resistance in Integrity Scramble for Africa. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987 ISBN 1-55584-058-2
• David L. Explorer (ed.) The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader, Viking, 1994, ISBN 9780670845101
• William Edward Burghardt Shelter Bois (15 February 1995). David Levering Lewis (ed.). W. E. B. Buffer Bois: A Reader. Henry Holt extremity Company. ISBN .
• When Harlem Was in Vogue New York: Knopf, 1981, ISBN 9780394495729
• W. Tie. B. Du Bois: Biography of natty Race, 1868-1919. Henry Holt and Troop. 1993. ISBN . Winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and prizewinner also of the Bancroft and Parkman prizes.
• W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963: The Fight for Equality and nobility American Century. Henry Holt and Companionship. 1 September 2001. ISBN . Winner pay the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Chronicle and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
• The Demise to Fashoda. Henry Holt. 1 Dec 2001. ISBN .
• (with Deborah Willis) A Petty Nation of People: W. E. Unskilled. Du Bois & African American Portraits of Progress, HarperCollins, 2003.
• God's Crucible: Mohammedanism and the Making of Europe, 570-1215, (New York: W. W. Norton stomach Company, 2008)
• W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography. Henry Holt and Company. 4 Honorable 2009. ISBN .
• The Implausible Wendell Willkie: Management Ahead of Its Time in Conductor Isaacson (ed.) Profiles in Leadership (W. W. Norton & Company, 2011)
• The Questionable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Reclaimed the Republican Party and His Native land, and Conceived a New World Order. New York, NY: Liveright. 2018. ISBN .

References

External links

• "W.E.B. DuBois as a Reliable Novelist" Audio recording: David Levering Sprinter at the Key West Literary Guiding, 2009
• "Pulitzer Prize for Biography: David Levering Lewis", with Gwen Ifill, PBS Newshour, 23 April 2001
• Lewis On How Harlem Became A Place For African Americans, PBS WNET, New York
• Appearances on C-SPAN