Author

Books by Barbara Tuchman

Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989) was an American historian and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner whose books combined scholarly rigor with narrative accessibility. She won Pulitzers for The Guns of August (1963) and Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1972). Her other major works include A Distant Mirror, on the fourteenth century, and The March of Folly, on governmental self-defeat across history. She worked as a journalist before turning to history and never held an academic position, which shaped her commitment to writing for general readers and to making serious scholarship accessible.