| W. A. Swanberg AKA William Andrew Swanberg Born: 23-Nov-1907
Birthplace: St. Paul, MN
Died: 17-Sep-1992
Location of death: Southbury, CT
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Citizen Hearst Military service: Office of War Information (1943-45) Wife: Dorothy Upham Green (m. 1936, two children)
University: BA, University of Minnesota (1930)
University: New York University (post-graduate study)
Dell Publishing Company Book Editor (1935-43)
Society of American Historians
Guggenheim Fellowship 1960
Pulitzer Prize for Biography 1973 for Luce and His Empire
Author of books:
Sickles the Incredible (1956, biography)
First Blood: The Story of Fort Sumter (1957, history)
Jim Fisk: The Career of an Improbable Rascal (1959, biography)
Citizen Hearst (1961, biography)
Dreiser (1965, biography)
Pulitzer (1967, biography)
The Rector and the Rogue (1968, biography)
Luce and His Empire (1972, biography)
Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist (1976, biography)
Whitney Father, Whitney Heiress: Two Generations of America's Richest Families (1980, biography)
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