Awards & Winners

Perry Miller

Date of Birth 25-February-1905
Place of Birth Chicago
(Illinois, United States of America, Chicago metropolitan area, Area code 872)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Perry G. Miller
Profession Historian, Professor, Author
Perry G. E. Miller was an American intellectual historian and Harvard University professor. He was an authority on American Puritanism, and a founder of the field of American Studies. Alfred Kazin referred to him as "the master of American intellectual history". In his most famous book, The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century, Miller adopted a cultural approach to illuminate the worldview of the Puritans, unlike previous historians who employed psychological and economic explanations of their beliefs and behavior.

Awards by Perry Miller

Check all the awards nominated and won by Perry Miller.

1966


Pulitzer Prize for History
Honored for : The Life of the Mind in America

1957


Nominations 1957 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Nonfiction The Raven and the Whale