S. C. Gwynne

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S. C. Gwynne
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Alma materPrinceton University
Genresnon-fiction
Notable awards Gerald Loeb Award
1992

Samuel C. Gwynne III [1] is an American writer. [2] [3] He holds a bachelor's degree in history from Princeton University and a master's degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University. [4]

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Life and career

Gwynne was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, to Sam Gwynne Jr., [1] and grew up mainly in New Canaan, Connecticut. He was educated at The Hill School, [1] then majored in history at Princeton University, graduating in 1974. [5] He also has a master's degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University, where he was awarded a graduate fellowship and studied under novelist John Barth. [3] He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, the artist Katie Maratta. [3]

Prior to his career as a journalist and historian, Gwynne was a French teacher at Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland. He was an international banker with both Ameritrust in Cleveland, Ohio and First Interstate Bank in Los Angeles and traveled extensively overseas.[ citation needed ]

He worked for Time magazine as a correspondent, bureau chief, and senior editor. He was later executive editor at Texas Monthly . [6] [7] His journalism has appeared in the New York Times, Harper's, Los Angeles Times, Outside Magazine, Dallas Morning News, California Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal, among others. His New York Times Bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon (2010) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the General Nonfiction category and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. On October 5, 2024, the Comanche Nation passed a resolution denouncing the book. [8] His book Rebel Yell, a biography of Stonewall Jackson – also a New York Times Bestseller – was a finalist for the PEN Award for Literary Biography and for the National Book Critics Circle Award in history. He is also the author of The Perfect Pass: American Genius and the Reinvention of Football (2016), and, most recently, Hymns of the Republic: the Story of The Final Year of the American Civil War (2019). His newest book, His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine, was released on May 2, 2023.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Princeton Alumni Weekly. Princeton University Press. 1969. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  2. ↑ "Finalist: Empire of the Summer Moon". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved September 3, 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 "Author – S.C. Gwynne". scgwynne.com. Retrieved June 27, 2020.
  4. ↑ "VIRTUAL: An Evening with Historian S. C. Gwynne, Author of Hymns of the Republic". WKSU. Retrieved April 1, 2022.
  5. ↑ "Tiger of the Week: Author S.C. Gwynne '74". Princeton Alumni Weekly . November 12, 2014. Retrieved July 27, 2017.
  6. ↑ "S.C. Gwynne". Texas Monthly . Archived from the original on May 16, 2013.
  7. ↑ "A Q&A with S. C. Gwynne". Texas Monthly. January 21, 2013.
  8. ↑ "Resolution No. 143-2024 Passed, Denouncing "Empire of the Summer Moon"". Comanche Nation, Oklahoma. Retrieved 2024-11-01.
  9. ↑ Dale L. Walker (May 30, 2010). "Book review, 'Empire of the Summer Moon,' by S.C. Gwynne". Dallas Morning News. Empire of the Summer Moon is a skillfully told, brutally truthful, history.
  10. ↑ Allen C. Guelzo (September 26, 2014). "Book Review: 'Rebel Yell' by S.C. Gwynne". The Wall Street Journal.
  11. ↑ Papiernik, Dick (June 1992). "Editors on the move in Philadelphia, Florida; award winners announced" (PDF). The Business Journalist. Vol. 31, no. 1. Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing. pp. 3–4. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
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