Award Winning Books by
DAVID LEVERING LEWIS

W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis 10 reviews (2000) (608p) (PP Bio) (NBA Non) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The second volume of the Pulitzer Prize--winning biography that The Washington Post hailed as "an engrossing masterpiece" Charismatic, singularly determined, and controversial, W.E.B. Du Bois was a historian, novelist, editor, sociologist, founder of the NAACP, advocate of women's rights, and the premier architect of the Civil Rights movement. His hypnotic voice thunders out of David... more >>

W. E. B. DU BOIS: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis 10 reviews (1994) (752p) (NYTimes Non) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

This monumental biography--eight years in the research and writing--treats the early and middle phases of a long and intense career: a crucial fifty-year period that demonstrates how Du Bois changed forever the way Americans think about themselves. ... more >>

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David Levering Lewis Award Stats

Major Prize* Nominations 2   Unique Books Nominated for a Major Prize* 1   Pulitzer Prize Wins 1 W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 ·   Pulitzer Prize Nominations 1 W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 ·   National Book Critics Circle Award Wins 0   National Book Critics Circle Award Nominations 0   National Book Award Wins 0   National Book Award Nominations 1 W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 ·   Man Booker Prize Wins 0   Man Booker Prize Nominations 0   PEN/Faulkner Award Wins 0   PEN/Faulkner Award Nominations 0

*Major Prize = Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, and PEN/Faulkner Award

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