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15 Facts About TJ Stiles

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TJ Stiles was born and raised in Foley, Minnesota, a rural farming community.

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TJ Stiles graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota with Distinction in History, and received a fellowship to study European history at Columbia University in New York City.

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TJ Stiles wrote for periodicals, authoring pieces for Smithsonian, Denver Post, and the Los Angeles Times.

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TJ Stiles argued that Jesse James won political support by depicting himself as a Confederate avenger after the Civil War, as opposed to the traditional notion that he was an anti-railroad Robin Hood figure.

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In 2009, after seven years of work, Stiles published his second biography The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt .

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TJ Stiles is a member of the Society of American Historians.

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From 2004 to 2005, Stiles held the Gilder Lehrman Fellowship in American History at the Dorothy and Lewis B Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.

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TJ Stiles has received a Distinguished Alumni Award from Carleton College.

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In 2019, TJ Stiles received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member Rick Atkinson.

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TJ Stiles has written for the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Salon.

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TJ Stiles is a popular public speaker and has appeared on several television documentaries.

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TJ Stiles served as a consultant and on-screen interview subject in the PBS series The American Experience, for the films Jesse James and Grand Central, among other programs.

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TJ Stiles taught nonfiction creative writing at Columbia University, and belonged to the faculty of the 2014 World Economic Forum annual meetings.

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TJ Stiles is a former member of the San Francisco Writer's Grotto.

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Currently, TJ Stiles serves on the executive council of the Authors Guild and on the advisory council of the Biographers International Organization.

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