Rick atkinson author biography

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    • Rick Atkinson is the author of dozens of best-selling books on American military history, including The Long Gray Line, a narrative saga about the West Point class of 1966; Crusade, a narrative history of the Persian Gulf War, and In the Company of Soldiers, an account of his time with General David H. Petraeus and the 101st Airborne Division during the invasion of Iraq in 2003. He has also written a three-part narrative history of the U.S. military’s role in the liberation of Europe in World War II, known as the Liberation Trilogy, and is currently at work on a similar trilogy about the Revolutionary War. 

    Atkinson’s many awards include the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for history; the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting; and the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for public service, awarded to the Washington Post for a series of investigative articles directed and edited by Atkinson on shootings by the District of Columbia police department. He is winner of the 1989 George Polk Award for national reporting, the 2003 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award, the 2007 Gerald R. Ford Award for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense, and the 2010 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. Atkinson has served as the Gen. Omar N. Bradley Chair of Strategic Leadership at the U.S. Army War College, where he remains an adjunct faculty member.

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    • Rick Atkinson

    American author (born 1952)

    Rick Atkinson

    at 2015 National Book Festival

    Born

    Lawrence Rush Atkinson IV


    (1952-11-15) November 15, 1952 (age 72)

    Munich, then West Germany

    Alma mater
    Occupations
    • Journalist
    • editor
    • historian
    • author
    AgentRaphael Sagalyn
    Spouse

    Jane Ann Chestnut

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    (m. 1979)​
    ChildrenRush, Sarah
    Parents
    • Larry Atkinson
    • Margaret Jean Atkinson
    Awards
    • Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, 1982
    • Livingston Award for international reporting
    • George Polk Award, Long Island University
    • John Hancock Award for excellence in business and financial journalism, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.
    • Pulitzer Prize for History, 2003
    • Gen. Omar N. Bradley Chair of Strategic Leadership, U.S. Army War College and Dickinson College, 2004–05
    • Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for lifetime achievement in military writing, 2010
    • Vincent J. Dooley Distinguished Fellow, honor bestowed by the Georgia Historical Society, 2019
      • -other awards in journalism
    WebsiteThe Revolution TrilogyThe Liberation Trilogy,

    Lawrence Rush "Rick" Atkinson IV (born November 15, 1952) is an American author, most recently of The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780, the second volume in the American RevolutionTrilogy, following The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777. He has won Pulitzer Prizes in history and journalism.

    After working as a newspaper reporter, editor, and foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, Atkinson turned to writing military history. His eight books include narrative accounts of five different American wars.

    His Liberation Trilogy, a history of the American role in the liberation of Europe in World War II, concluded with the publication of The Guns at Last Light in May 2013. In

    Rick Atkinson

    An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
    4.29 avg rating — 21,664 ratings — published 2002 — 67 editions
    The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2)
    4.35 avg rating — 15,263 ratings — published 2007 — 51 editions
    The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3)
    4.47 avg rating — 10,332 ratings — published 2013 — 42 editions
    The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
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    4.43 avg rating — 6,667 ratings — published 2019 — 13 editions
    The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966
    4.30 avg rating — 3,210 ratings — published 1989 — 32 editions
    In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat in Iraq
    3.94 avg rating — 1,850 ratings — published 2004 — 27 editions
    Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War
    4.11 avg rating — 955 ratings — published 1993 — 27 editions
    D-Day: The Invasion of Normandy, 1944 [The Young Readers Adaptation]
    3.90 avg rating — 401 ratings — published 2014 — 11 editions
    The Liberation Trilogy Boxed Set
    4.76 avg rating — 274 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions
    Battle of the Bulge [The Young Readers Adaptation]
    3.91 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions
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    • War, Revolution, and the American Story: A Conversation with Historian Rick Atkinson

    Albert Mohler:

    This is Thinking in Public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about frontline theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them. I’m Albert Mohler, your host and President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

    Rick Atkinson has made one of the most fascinating professional transitions, from being an award-winning journalist to being an award-winning historian. Actually, he has won awards including the Pulitzer Prize as a journalist, and then again the Pulitzer Prize as an historian. He’s written several books, most famously his trilogy on World War II, entitled The Liberation Trilogy, which addresses itself to the unfolding story of the liberation of Europe. And now he has started a second major trilogy, and the first volume in this is entitled The British Are Coming, covering the early years of the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1777.

    Rick Atkinson is an author who takes you right into the story, develops character, tells a narrative, and points to some larger issues that will surprise you, and that’s true of every volume that he’s written. I’m looking forward to this conversation with historian Rick Atkinson. Rick Atkinson, welcome to Thinking in Public.

    Rick Atkinson:

    Thanks, Dr. Mohler. Thanks for having me.

    Albert Mohler:

    I really look forward to this conversation. There’s a sense in which every time I read a work, I feel like I’ve had some kind of conversation with the author, but it’s different to actually have this kind of conversation. And when it comes to your work as an author, and especially with these two major trilogies, one done and one in progress, you are having a very long conversation with some audience. Who is that audience?

    Rick Atkinson:

    That’s an interesting question. I like to think that the audience i