Description
The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of W. E. B. Du Bois from renowned scholar David Levering Lewis, now in one condensed and updated volume
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois--the premier architect of the civil rights movement in America--was a towering and controversial personality, a fiercely proud individual blessed with the language of the poet and the impatience of the agitator. Now, David Levering Lewis has carved one volume out of his superlative two-volume biography of this monumental figure that set the standard for historical scholarship on this era. In his magisterial prose, Lewis chronicles Du Bois's long and storied career, detailing the momentous contributions to our national character that still echo today.W.E.B. Du Bois is a 1993 and 2000 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction and the winner of the 1994 and 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Author: David Levering Lewis
Publisher: Holt McDougal
Published: 08/04/2009
Pages: 912
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.08h x 6.16w x 1.59d
ISBN13: 9780805088052
ISBN10: 0805088059
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | African American & Black
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists
About the Author
David Levering Lewis is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the two-volume biography of W. E. B. Du Bois. He has been awarded numerous prizes and fellowships, including a MacArthur Fellowship. Twice a finalist for the National Book Award, Lewis lives in Manhattan and Stanfordville, New York, with his wife.