| 1 | Name: | Dr. Garry Wills | |
| Institution: | Northwestern University | ||
| Year Elected: | 2003 | ||
| Class: | 3. Social Sciences | ||
| Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Living | ||
| Birth Date: | 1934 | ||
Garry Wills is an author and historian and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. He is Professor Emeritus of History at Northwestern University and received his Ph.D. in classics from Yale University in 1961. In 1993, Dr. Wills won a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, which describes the background and effect of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Dr. Wills' many other books include penetrating studies of George Washington, Richard Nixon, the Kennedy family, Ronald Reagan, and religion in America. His book, "What Paul Meant" (2006), makes the argument for Paul as the most reliable guide to Jesus' teachings. Dr. Wills' numerous honors and prizes include the Merle Curti Award of the American Historical Association, the National Book Critics Award, the Presidential Medal of the Endowment for the Humanities, and honorary doctorates from nineteen colleges. His recent publications include "Head and Heart: American Christianities" (2007); "What the Gospels Meant" (2008); "Martial's Epigrams", a collection of translations of the verse of Marcus Valerius Martialis; and "Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State" (2010). In 2011 he published both Rome and Rhetoric; Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" and Verdi's Shakespeare: Men of the Theater and in 2013 he released Why Priests? A Failed Tradition. | |||