Rick Atkinson
Autor von An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943
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Rick Atkinson holds a master of arts degree in English literature from the University of Chicago and is a Pulitzer-Prize winning author and military historian Atkinson is the author of the highly-acclaimed Liberation Trilogy, The Long Gray Line, In the Company of Soldiers and Crusade. Atkinson mehr anzeigen received the Pulitzer Prize for the first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943. The second volume, The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944, drew praise as well. Atkinson also received the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting; and the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for public service, awarded to the Washington Post for a series of investigative articles directed and edited by Atkinson on shootings by the District of Columbia police department. He is winner of the 1989 George Polk Award for national reporting, the 2003 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award, the 2007 Gerald R. Ford Award for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense, and the 2010 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. Atkinson has served as the Gen. Omar N. Bradley Chair of Strategic Leadership at the U.S. Army War College. In 2014 his title The Guns at Last Light made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
Bildnachweis: Rick Atkinson speaks on the HIstory and Biography Stage at the National Book Festival, August 31, 2019. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
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- Atkinson, Lawrence Rush, IV
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- 1952-11-16
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- USA (born in Germany to American parents)
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- Munich, Germany
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- Washington, DC, USA
Berlin, Germany - Ausbildung
- East Carolina University (1974)
University of Chicago (1976) - Berufe
- reporter
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- Kansas City Times
The Washington Post
American Academy in Berlin
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- Pulitzer Prize (1982)
Axel Springer Berlin Prize Fellow
Pritzker Literature Award (2010)
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