Barbara W. Tuchman
Writing
January 30, 1912
Died at age 77
February 6, 1989
Date of Death
New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American historian and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August (1962), a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971), a biography of General Joseph Stilwell.[2]