William Andrew Swanberg, 1907-1992, was a Pulitzer-Prize-winning American biographer. He is perhaps best known for Citizen Hearst, his biography of William Randolph Hearst. He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1907 and earned his B.A. at the University of Minnesota in 1930^[1] He always wrote under the name "W.A. Swanberg". He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1960. He died of heart failure in Southbury, Connecticut in 1992.

Contents 1 Selected Publications 2 Literary Awards 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Selected Publications

• Sickles the Incredible, 1956
• First Blood: The Story of Ft. Sumter, 1957
• Jim Fisk: The Career of an Improbable Rascal, 1959
• Citizen Hearst: A Biography of William Randolph Hearst, 1961
• Dreiser, 1965
• Pulitzer, 1967
• The Rector and the Rogue, 1969
• Luce and His Empire, 1972
• Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist, 1976
• Whitney Father, Whitney Heiress, 1980

[edit] Literary Awards

• Christopher Award and Minnesota Centennial Award for First Blood
• Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Award, 1961, for Citizen Hearst
• In 1962 the Pulitzer board awarded the Pulitzer Prize in biography to Citizen Hearst. The trustees of Columbia University, who administer the prize, overturned the award refusing to honor a book that took a critical look at William Randolph Hearst. ^[2]
• Van Wyck Brooks Award for nonfiction, 1967
• Pulitzer Prize, 1973, for Luce and His Empire
• National Book Award for biography, 1977, for Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• WorldCat Identities page for W.A. Swanberg