David Herbert Donald

David Herbert Donald (1920-2009) was an American historian renowned for his biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner, and Thomas Wolfe. He won two Pulitzer Prizes for Biography—for Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War (1961) and Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe (1988)—and authored over 30 books on U.S. political and literary figures, the Civil War, and the American South.