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Garry Wills
American author, political philosopher and historian (born 1934) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the American jazz musician, see Gary Willis.
Garry Wills (born May 22, 1934) is an American author, journalist, political philosopher, and historian, specializing in American history, politics, and religion, especially the history of the Catholic Church. He won a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1993.
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![]() Wills at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in 2015 | |
Born | (1934-05-22) May 22, 1934 (age 90) Atlanta, Georgia, US |
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Period | 1961–present |
Subject | American politics and political history, the Catholic Church |
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Natalie Cavallo
(m. 1959; died 2019) |
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Wills has written over fifty books and, since 1973, has been a frequent reviewer for The New York Review of Books.[1] He became a faculty member of the history department at Northwestern University in 1980, where he is an Emeritus Professor of History.