Garry Wills
Currently alive, at 79 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Authors, Historian, Journalist
1934 - Born in Atlanta, Georgia on the 22th of May. 1951 - He graduated from Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. 1961 - Received his PhD in classics from Yale in. 1863 - Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address on the 19th of November.
1970 - The Crisis of the Self-Made Man.
1978 - Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.
1979 - Confessions of a Conservative.
1992 - Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America.
1993 - He won a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America. 1995 - He received a L.H.D. from Bates College. - He received an honorary doctorate from the College of the Holy Cross.
1997 - John Wayne's America: The Politics of Celebrity"
1998 - President Clinton awarded him the National Endowment for the Humanities Presidential Medal. - He has also won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
2007 - Wills will appear at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral in conversation with Dean Alan Jones. More information is available at: http://www.gracecathedral.org/calendar/detail.php?eid=1053.