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David Levering Lewis

David Levering Lewis has won the Pulitzer Prize twice, one for each volume of his biography of W. E. B. Du Bois. He is also the author of King: A Biography and, most recently, The Improbable Wendell Willkie.

A Prophet and a President

A Prophet and a President

Why Black biography matters

by David Levering Lewis | Thursday, October 21, 2021
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The Autobiography of Biography

In which I tell how I was drawn again and again to the lives of African-American figures, and found in them the story of our times

by David Levering Lewis | Monday, June 09, 2014

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The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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