S. C. Gwynne Explained

S. C. Gwynne
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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]

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. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, the artist Katie Maratta.

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.

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. 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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Notes and References

  1. Book: Princeton Alumni Weekly . 1969 . Princeton University Press . 30 December 2023 . en.
  2. Web site: Finalist: Empire of the Summer Moon . September 3, 2019 . www.pulitzer.org .
  3. Web site: Author – S.C. Gwynne . June 27, 2020 . scgwynne.com.
  4. Web site: VIRTUAL: An Evening with Historian S. C. Gwynne, Author of Hymns of the Republic . April 1, 2022 . WKSU .
  5. Web site: November 12, 2014 . Tiger of the Week: Author S.C. Gwynne '74 . July 27, 2017 . Princeton Alumni Weekly.
  6. Web site: S.C. Gwynne . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20130516110718/http://www.texasmonthly.com/contributor/sc-gwynne . May 16, 2013 . Texas Monthly.
  7. Web site: January 21, 2013 . A Q&A with S. C. Gwynne .
  8. News: 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..
  9. News: Book Review: 'Rebel Yell' by S.C. Gwynne. The Wall Street Journal. Allen C. Guelzo. September 26, 2014.
  10. News: Editors on the move in Philadelphia, Florida; award winners announced . Papiernik . Dick . June 1992 . The Business Journalist . February 2, 2019 . . 1 . 31 . 3–4 .

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