David McCullough

David McCullough was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1933. He studied English literature at Yale University, where he met writers such as Thornton Wilder, and then worked for Time and Life magazines, for the United States Information Agency, and for the magazine American Heritage. His first book, The Johnstown Flood (1968), told of the 1889 dam collapse in Pennsylvania. It was followed by The Great Bridge, about the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, and The Path Between the Seas, about the Panama Canal, which won the National Book Award. His biographies Truman (1992) and John Adams (2001) both won the Pulitzer Prize, and John Adams was later made into a television series. Other books include 1776, The Greater Journey and The Wright Brothers. McCullough was also widely known as the narrator of documentaries, including Ken Burns's The Civil War, and as host of the PBS series American Experience. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2006 and died in Massachusetts in 2022.

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