David Gaub McCullough was an American popular historian.
33 Facts About David McCullough
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David McCullough was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
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David McCullough narrated numerous documentaries, such as The Civil War by Ken Burns, as well as the 2003 film Seabiscuit, and he hosted the PBS television documentary series American Experience for twelve years.
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David McCullough was born in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Ruth and Christian Hax David McCullough.
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David McCullough was educated at Linden Avenue Grade School and Shady Side Academy, in his hometown of Pittsburgh.
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One of four sons, David McCullough had a "marvelous" childhood with a wide range of interests, including sports and drawing cartoons.
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David McCullough "loved school, every day"; he contemplated many career choices, ranging from architect, actor, painter, writer, to lawyer, and considered attending medical school for a time.
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David McCullough said that it was a "privilege" to study English at Yale because of faculty members such as John O'Hara, John Hersey, Robert Penn Warren, and Brendan Gill.
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Wilder, said David McCullough, taught him that a competent writer maintains "an air of freedom" in the storyline, so that a reader will not anticipate the outcome, even if the book is non-fiction.
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David McCullough served apprenticeships at Time, Life, the United States Information Agency, and American Heritage, where he enjoyed research.
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David McCullough graduated with honors in English literature in 1955.
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David McCullough proposed, from a suggestion by his editor, a work about the Panama Canal; both were accepted by the publisher.
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Later in 1977, David McCullough travelled to the White House to advise Jimmy Carter and the United States Senate on the Torrijos-Carter Treaties, which would give Panama control of the Canal.
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David McCullough started it as a book about the founding fathers and back-to-back presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; but dropped Jefferson to focus on Adams.
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The DVD version of the miniseries includes the biographical documentary, David McCullough: Painting with Words.
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David McCullough's 1776 tells the story of the founding year of the United States, focusing on George Washington, the amateur army, and other struggles for independence.
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In 1954, David McCullough married Rosalee Barnes; the couple had first met as teenagers, and they remained together until her death on June 9,2022.
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David McCullough's interests included sports, history, and visual art, including watercolor and portrait painting.
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David McCullough taught a writing course at Wesleyan University and was a visiting scholar at Cornell University and Dartmouth College.
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David McCullough received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in December 2006, the highest civilian award that a United States citizen can receive.
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David McCullough was awarded more than 40 honorary degrees, including one from the Eastern Nazarene College in John Adams' hometown of Quincy, Massachusetts.
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David McCullough received two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, two Francis Parkman Prizes, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, New York Public Library's Literary Lion Award, and the St Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates, among others.
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David McCullough was chosen to deliver the first annual John Hersey Lecture at Yale University on March 22,1993.
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David McCullough was a member of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the Academy of Achievement.
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In 1995, McCullough received the Peggy V Helmerich Distinguished Author Award.
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David McCullough was made an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa at Yale University in 2015.
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On May 11,2016, David McCullough received the United States Capitol Historical Society's Freedom Award.
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In September 2016, David McCullough received the Gerry Lenfest Spirit of the American Revolution Award from the Museum of the American Revolution.
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In 2017, David McCullough was inducted into the DC Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution and received the National Society SAR Good Citizenship Award.
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David McCullough narrated many television shows and documentaries throughout his career.
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David McCullough narrated numerous documentaries directed by Ken Burns, including the Emmy Award-winning The Civil War, the Academy Award-nominated Brooklyn Bridge, The Statue of Liberty, and The Congress.
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David McCullough served as a guest narrator for The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, a Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert special that aired on PBS in 2010.
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David McCullough narrated, in whole or in part, numerous of his own audiobooks, including Truman, 1776, The Greater Journey, and The Wright Brothers.