Awards & Winners

Jacques Barzun

Date of Birth 30-November-1907
Place of Birth Créteil
(Val-de-Marne, ÃŽle-de-France, France)
Nationality United States of America, France
Also know as Jacques Martin Barzun
Profession Historian, Critic, Writer, Professor
Jacques Martin Barzun was a French-born American historian of ideas and culture. He wrote on a range of topics as broad as baseball and classical music, but is perhaps best known as a philosopher of education. Barzun's Teacher in America was an important influence on post-WWII training of schoolteachers in the United States. He published over 40 books, won the American Presidential Medal of Freedom, and was knighted into the French Legion of Honor. His New York Times best-selling magnum opus, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present, was published in 2000, when he was 93 years of age.

Awards by Jacques Barzun

Check all the awards nominated and won by Jacques Barzun.

2000


Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Nonfiction From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present- 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present- 500 Years of Western Cultural Life

1972


Special Edgars Award
Honored for : A Catalogue of Crime: A Reader's Guide to the Literature of Mystery, Detection, and Related Genres

1960


Nominations 1960 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Nonfiction The House of Intellect