W. Jackson Bate

American · b. 1918

3 award wins

Award History

Award	Year	Book	Status
National Book Award for Nonfiction	1978	Samuel Johnson	Winner
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography	1978	Samuel Johnson	Winner
National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction	1977	Samuel Johnson	Winner

Award-Winning Books

Winner
Samuel Johnson
W. Jackson BateNational Book Award for Nonfiction

About W. Jackson Bate

Walter Jackson Bate (1918-1999) was an American literary scholar, critic, and biographer best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies of John Keats (1963) and Samuel Johnson (1977), the latter also receiving the National Book Award. Society.