Peter Gay - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	20-June-1923
Place of Birth	Berlin (Germany)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	Peter Joachim FrÃ¶hlich
Profession	Historian, Author, Writer, Professor
Peter Gay is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and former director of the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers. Gay received the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction in 2004. He is the author of more than twenty-five books, including The Enlightenment: An Interpretation, a multi-volume award winner; Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider, a bestseller; and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time. Peter Gay was born in Berlin, Germany in 1923 and emigrated to the United States in 1941. From 1962 to 1969 he was Professor of History at Columbia University. He joined Yale Universityâ€™s History Department as Professor of Comparative and Intellectual European History in 1969, and was named Sterling Professor of History in 1984.

Awards by Peter Gay

Check all the awards nominated and won by Peter Gay.

1996

American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for History

1994

Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction	The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud

1989

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography	Freud: A Life For Our Time

1988

Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Nonfiction	The Enlightenment, Vol. I: An Interpretation the Rise of Modern Paganism

1975

Nominations 1975 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Arts and Letters (Nonfiction)	Style in history

1969

Nominations 1969 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Arts and Letters (Nonfiction)	Weimar culture: the outsider as insider

1967

National Book Award for History and Biography (Nonfiction)

Honored for : The Enlightenment, Vol. I: An Interpretation the Rise of Modern Paganism

Nominations 1967 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for History and Biography (Nonfiction)	The Enlightenment, Vol. I: An Interpretation the Rise of Modern Paganism

1966

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

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