Dumas Malone

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Dumas Malone

American historian, editor, and the author

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Born:: January 10, 1892, Coldwater, Mississippi, U.S.

Died:: December 27, 1986, Charlottesville, Virginia (aged 94)

Awards And Honors:: Pulitzer Prize

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Dumas Malone (born January 10, 1892, Coldwater, Mississippi, U.S.—died December 27, 1986, Charlottesville, Virginia) was an American historian, editor, and the author of an authoritative multivolume biography of Thomas Jefferson. Malone was educated at Emory and Yale universities. He taught at Yale, Columbia, and the University of Virginia, where he was the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History. He edited the Dictionary of American Biography from 1929 to 1936 and the Political Science Quarterly from 1953 to 1958 and served as director of the Harvard University Press from 1936 to 1943. Malone’s masterwork is Jefferson and His Time, a comprehensive ...(100 of 158 words)

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