David Donald

David Herbert Donald (1920-2009) was an acclaimed American historian renowned for his biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner, and Thomas Wolfe, authoring over 30 books on U.S. political and literary figures, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the American South. Achievement. He won two Pulitzer Prizes for Biography—one in 1961 for Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War and another in 1988 for Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe—and his 1995 biography Lincoln is widely regarded as the definitive single-volume life of the president. History.