"If a man is a writer," she once said, "everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. Possessing neither academic title nor graduate degree, she found the writing life difficult due not out of a lack of credentials but due to gender. Tuchman did not choose the leisurely life, but pursued the historian's craft. Her other books include The Zimmermann Telegram, The Proud Tower, A Distant Mirror, and Practicing History, a selection of short writings.īorn in New York, Ms. She won her second Pulitzer Prize for Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45, a biography of Gen. The book received critical praise and a sturdy niche on the best-seller lists. Tuchman's fourth book, The Guns of August, a study of the background and beginning of World War I, made her a celebrity after its publication in 1962. Barbara Tuchman, 77, twice a Pulitzer Prize winner, died on February 6, 1989.
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