Marquis James

Marquis James (1891-1955) was an American journalist and biographer renowned for his Pulitzer Prize-winning works The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston (1930) and The Life of Andrew Jackson (1938), which elevated historical biography to literary heights. Born in Springfield, Missouri, he chronicled figures like Andrew Jackson and Sam Houston, as well as business histories such as The Texaco Story and Biography of a Bank. Pulitzer Project