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David Gaub McCullough (mə-kŭl'ə) (born
July 7,
1933 in
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania) He was awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award, in December 2006. His works have been published in ten languages, and over nine million copies have been printed. His eight books, all published by
Simon & Schuster, have never gone out of print, a rarity among writers. McCullough's next work, about Americans in Paris, is due out in 2010.
Early life and education
Born to Christian Hax and Ruth McCullough, McCullough was educated at Linden Avenue Grade School and
Shady Side Academy, in his hometown of
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. One of four sons, McCullough had a "marvelous" childhood; his interests ranged from sports to drawing cartoons. McCullough "loved school, every day"; He believed that it was a "privilege" to study English at Yale due to the staff, which included
John O'Hara,
John Hersey,
Robert Penn Warren, and
Brendan Gill. He occasionally ate lunch with Pulitzer Prize winning
novelist and
playwright Thornton Wilder. He served apprenticeships at
Time,
Life, the
United States Information Agency, and
American Heritage.
Writing career
McCullough was introduced to books at an early age, by his parents and his grandmother, who read to him often. After working various jobs for twelve years, with a consistent concentration on editing and writing, McCullough "felt that [he] had reached the point where [he] could attempt something on my own."
The Johnstown Flood, a chronicle of one of the
worst flood disasters in United States history, was released in
1968; John Leonard, of
The New York Times, said of McCullough, "We have no better social historian."
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After the success of
The Johnstown Flood, two new publishers offered him a contract, one to write about the
Great Chicago Fire, another about the
San Francisco earthquake. However, Simon & Schuster, publisher of
The Johnstown Flood, also offered McCullough a contract to write a second book. Five years later,
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal was released, gaining McCullough widespread attention for the first time. Samuel Eliot Morison Award, the
Francis Parkman Prize,, and the Cornelius Ryan Award. Later in
1977, McCoullough travelled to the
White House to advise
Jimmy Carter and the
United States Senate on the Panama Canal; Carter would later say the
treaties which were agreed upon to hand over ownership of the Canal to
Panama wouldn't have passed, had it not been for the book. The work, ranging from
1869 to
1886, beginning when Roosevelt was ten years of age, tells of a "life intensely lived." Next, a collection of essays which, "unfold seamlessly" entitled
Brave Companions, is released from McCullough. The essays, which were written over a twenty year period, included works about
Louis Agassiz,
Alexander von Humboldt,
John and
Washington Roebling,
Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Conrad Aiken, and
Frederic Remington. Two years later the book was adapted into a
television movie by
HBO, starring
Gary Sinise as Truman.
"I think it's important to remember that these men are not perfect. If they were marble gods, what they did wouldn't be so admirable. The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them." — David McCullough McCullough released John Adams; his third biography about a United States president in 2001. One of the fastest selling non-fiction books in history, HBO returned to McCullough's works to adapt John Adams. McCullough's latest work, 1776, tells the story of the founding year of the United States, with focus on George Washington, the amateur army, and other struggles for independence.
McCullough had stated that his next work could be a "sequel" to 1776, and the Academy of Achievement.
Works
Monographs
Narrations
- Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided (2001)
- Battle of the Bulge (1994)
- Brooklyn Bridge (1995)
- The Civil War (1990)
- Degenerate Art (1993)
- The Donner Party (1992)
- Eisenhower (1993)
- FDR (1994)
- Huey Long (1985)
- LBJ: A Biography (1991)
- Napoleon (2000)
- Seabiscuit (2003)
- Secrets of a Master Builder (2000)
- The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God (1985)
- The Statue of Liberty (1996)
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