TJ Stiles

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TJ Stiles (2010)

TJ Stiles (born July 29, 1964 in Foley , Minnesota ) is an American writer and multiple winner of the Pulitzer Prize .

Life

Stiles grew up in his hometown in Minnesota, where his father was one of two local doctors and next as coroner of Benton County worked. TJ Stiles himself attended Carleton College in Northfield , Minnesota, where he graduated with honors in history. He then studied European history on a scholarship at the Graduate School of Columbia University in New York City . Here he received a Master of Arts and a Master of Philosophy .

Stiles decided against an academic career and instead worked for Oxford University Press . Here he had the opportunity to deepen his historical interest. He also began his first literary efforts, wrote articles for the Smithsonian Institution and commentaries for the Denver Post and the Los Angeles Times . As time went on, he became interested in the history of the United States in the 19th century, particularly that of the Civil War . This resulted in the publication of his first book Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War , a biography of Jesse James , in 2002 . In 2003 the book received the Ambassador Book Award from the English Speaking Union .

Stiles started to work on a biography about the entrepreneur Cornelius Vanderbilt . From 2004 to 2005 he was a Gilder Lehrman Fellow in American History at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library . In 2009, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt was released . In the same year the book received the National Book Award in the category "Non-fiction" and 2010 the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography .

Stiles lived in New York City from 1986 to 2006. Here he met his future wife. In the summer of 2006, the two moved to California and married in July of that year. In 2007 they settled in the Presidio in San Francisco . Their first child, a son, was born later that year. A daughter followed in 2011. In 2013, Stiles moved with his family to Berkeley , California.

In 2011 he was a scholarship holder ( Guggenheim Fellow ) of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . Stiles was elected a member of the Society of American Historians in 2012. In October 2015, his third biography was published, this time about George Armstrong Custer , which he had been working on since 2010. His book Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History and the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America Association in the Best Western Biography category .

Publications

  • Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War (2002, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. )
  • The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (2009, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.)
  • Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America (2015, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ^ Winner of the 2016 Spur Awards , Western Writers of America website
personal data
SURNAME Stiles, TJ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and multiple Pulitzer Prize winner
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Foley, Minnesota