Fischer Takes $100K Pritzker Prize
Jul 01, 2015
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Hackett Fischer is the winner of the 2015 Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing, which comes with $100,000.
Museum & Library founder and chair Jennifer N. Pritzker, a retired colonel in the Illinois National Guard, will present Fischer with the award at the organization’s annual Liberty Gala on November 7 at the Hilton Chicago.
Among Fischer's works are Washington’s Crossing (Oxford University Press, 2004), a National Book Award finalist and 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner for history; Paul Revere’s Ride (Oxford, 1994); and Champlain’s Dream (Simon & Schuster/Knopf Canada, 2008).
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