David Levering Lewis - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	25-May-1936
Place of Birth	Little Rock (Pulaski County, Arkansas, United States of America, Area code 501)
Nationality	United States of America
Profession	Historian, Writer, Biographer, Professor
David Levering Lewis is the Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History at New York University. He is twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, for part one and part two of his biography of W. E. B. Du Bois. He is the first author to win two Pulitzer Prizes for biography for back-to-back volumes. The author of eight books and editor of two more, Lewis's field is comparative history with special focus on twentieth-century United States social history and civil rights. His interests include nineteenth-century Africa, twentieth-century France, and Islamic Spain.

Awards by David Levering Lewis

Check all the awards nominated and won by David Levering Lewis.

2001

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

Honored for : W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963: The Fight for Equality and the American Century

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

Honored for : W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963: The Fight for Equality and the American Century

Nominations 2001 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography	W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963: The Fight for Equality and the American Century

2000

Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Nonfiction	W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963: The Fight for Equality and the American Century

1994

Bancroft Prize

Honored for : W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

Honored for : W.E.B. Dubois: A Reader

Ambassador Book Award for Biography & Autobiography

Honored for : W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

Honored for : W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919

Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography	W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919

1993

Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Nonfiction	W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919

1986

Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada	(U.S. History)

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