Garry Wills (born May 22, 1934 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an author and historian, and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. In 1993, he won a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, which describes the background and effect of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863. Wills is an adjunct professor of history, both American and cultural, at Northwestern University. He graduated from Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1951 and received his PhD in classics from Yale in 1961. William F. Buckley, Jr. hired him as a drama critic for National Review magazine at the age of 23. In 1995 Wills received a L.H.D. from Bates College. He received an honorary doctorate from the College of the Holy Cross. In 1998, he won the National Medal for the Humanities. He has also won the National Book Critics Circle Award. His book Nixon Agonistes landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents. John Leonard said in The New York Times that Wills "reads like a combination of H. L. Mencken, John Locke and Albert Camus."[1]
Books
- (1961), ISBN 0-385-50290-7
- Animals of the Bible (1962)
- Politics and Catholic Freedom (1964)
- (1966), ISBN 0-8076-0367-8
- (1968)
- Jack Ruby (1968), ISBN 0-306-80564-2
- (1970, 1979), ISBN 0-451-61750-9
- (1972), ISBN 0-385-08970-8
- Values Americans Live By (1973), ISBN 0-405-04166-7
- (1978), ISBN 0-385-08976-7
- Confessions of a Conservative (1979), ISBN 0-385-08977-5
- At Button's (1979), ISBN 0-8362-6108-9
- (1981), ISBN 0-385-14689-2
- (1982), ISBN 0-316-94385-1
- (1983), ISBN 0-385-17695-3
- (1984), ISBN 0-385-17562-0
- (1987), ISBN 0-385-18286-4
- (1990), ISBN 0-671-65705-4
- (1992), ISBN 0-671-76956-1
- (1994), ISBN 0-671-65702-X
- (1995), ISBN 0-19-508879-4
- (1997), ISBN 0-684-80823-4
- Saint Augustine (1999), ISBN 0-670-88610-6
- (1999), ISBN 0-684-84489-3
- (2000), ISBN 0-385-49410-6
- (2001), ISBN 0-684-87190-4
- Why I Am a Catholic (2002), ISBN 0-618-13429-8
- Mr. Jefferson's University (2002), ISBN 0-7922-6531-9
- James Madison (2002), ISBN 0-8050-6905-4
- (2003), ISBN 0-618-34398-9
- Henry Adams and the Making of America (2005), ISBN 0-618-13430-1
- (2005), ISBN 0-670-03449-5
- What Jesus Meant (2006), ISBN 0-670-03496-7
- What Paul Meant (2006), ISBN 0-670-03793-1
- (2007), ISBN 978-1594201462
External links
- Northwestern bio
- NYRB pieces
- Thoughts on Nixon Agonistes
- History Faculty of NW university
- BookTV In Depth interview with Wills
- Wills will appear at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral for a live conversation with Dean Alan Jones on October 15, 2007. Also webcast and archived
- Garry Wills discusses his new book "Head and Heart" Interview
