Awards & Winners

T. Harry Williams

Date of Birth 19-May-1909
Place of Birth Vinegar Hill Township
(Illinois, Jo Daviess County, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Thomas Harry Williams
Profession Historian, Writer
Thomas Harry Williams was an award-winning historian at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge whose career began in 1941 and extended for thirty-eight years until his death at the age of seventy. A popular faculty member, Williams is perhaps best known for his American Civil War study, Lincoln and His Generals, a "Book of the Month" selection from 1952, and his Huey Long, the definitive study of Huey Pierce Long, Jr., 1970 winner of both the National Book Award in History and Biography and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

Awards by T. Harry Williams

Check all the awards nominated and won by T. Harry Williams.

1970


Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Honored for : Huey Long
National Book Award for History and Biography (Nonfiction)
Honored for : Huey Long

Nominations 1970 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for History and Biography (Nonfiction) Huey Long