Joan D. Hedrick
Joan D. Hedrick | |
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| Born | Joan Doran Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography |
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| Alma mater | Brown University |
| Thesis | The True American : Henry Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, "Prufrock", and Others (1974) |
Joan Doran Hedrick (born May 1, 1944) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Jack London.[1]
Early life and career
Hedrick was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Paul Thomas Doran and Jane Connorton Doran.[2]
She earned an A.B. degree from Vassar College in 1966, and a Ph.D. from Brown University in 1974. Her Ph.D. dissertation at Brown was titled "The True American: Henry Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, 'Prufrock', and Others".[3] She taught at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut from 1972 through 1980 and in 1980 began teaching at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
Works
In 1982, Hedrick's first book, Solitary Comrade: Jack London and His Work, was published by the
References
- ^ "Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life, by Joan D. Hedrick (Oxford University Press)". Pulitzer.org. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
- ISBN 1573561118. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
- OCLC 2407951.
- ^ McClurg, Jocelyn (April 19, 1995). "Trinity College Professor Wins Pulitzer". Hartford Courant. Retrieved August 5, 2018.
- ^ Jefferson, Margo. "Books of The Times; An Author's Life Reflects 19th-Century America". Retrieved 2018-11-06.
- ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life by Joan D. Hedrick, Author Oxford University Press, USA $35 (544p) ISBN 978-0-19-506639-5". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-11-06.
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