Awards & Winners

David Levering Lewis

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