Garry Wills

Garry Wills (born May 22, 1934) is an American author, journalist, political philosopher, and historian, specializing in American history, politics, and religion, especially the history of the Catholic Church. He won a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1993.

Garry Wills
Wills at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in 2015
Born (1934-05-22) May 22, 1934
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Occupation
  • Author
  • journalist
  • historian
Alma mater
  • Saint Louis University (BA)
  • Xavier University (MA)
  • Yale University (PhD)
Period1961–present
SubjectAmerican politics and political history, the Catholic Church
Notable works
  • Nixon Agonistes (1970)
  • Inventing America (1978)
  • Lincoln at Gettysburg (1993)
Notable awards
  • Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction (1993)
  • National Medal for the Humanities (1998)
Spouse
Natalie Cavallo
(m. 1959; died 2019)

Wills has written over fifty books and, since 1973, has been a frequent reviewer for The New York Review of Books. He became a faculty member of the history department at Northwestern University in 1980, where he is an Emeritus Professor of History.

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