Margaret Leech

Margaret Kernochan Leech (1893–1974) was an American historian, biographer, and novelist, best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning histories Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865 (1942, first woman to win in History category) and In the Days of McKinley (1960, also Bancroft Prize). She also wrote novels such as The Back of the Book (1924) and Tin Wedding (1926), and married publisher Ralph Pulitzer. NYRB