Esther Forbes

Esther Louise Forbes (Westborough, 28 giugno 1891 – Worcester, 12 agosto 1967) è stata una storica e scrittrice statunitense.

Biografia

Nata a Westborough, nello Stato statunitense del Massachusetts, era la quinta di sei figli, i suoi genitori erano Harriette Merrifield e William Trowbridge Forbes. Studiò alla Bradford academy e all'University of Wisconsin.

Dopo aver terminato il percorso scolastico fu un membro dell'editoriale di Houghton Mifflin Company a Boston. Sposò Albert Hoskins (1926-1933). Fu uno dei membri dell'American Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[1]

Nel 1943 venne premiata con il premio Pulitzer per la storia

Opere

Oh Genteel Lady! (1926)
A Mirror for Witches (1928)
Miss Marvel (1935)
Paradise (1937)
The General's Lady (1938)
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In (1942)
Johnny Tremain (1943)
The Boston Book (1947)
America's Paul Revere (1948)
The Running of the Tide (1948)
Rainbow on the Road (1954)

Note

^ Heinz-Dietrich Fischer, American history awards 1917-1991: from colonial settlements to the civil rights movement, Volume 7, pag 119, Walter de Gruyter, 1994, ISBN 978-3-598-30177-3.

Altri progetti

Wikimedia Commons contiene immagini o altri file su Esther Forbes

Collegamenti esterni

(EN) Esther Forbes, su Enciclopedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
(EN) Opere di Esther Forbes, su Open Library, Internet Archive.
(EN) Bibliografia di Esther Forbes, su Internet Speculative Fiction Database, Al von Ruff.
(EN) Esther Forbes, su Internet Broadway Database, The Broadway League.

V · D · M Vincitori del premio Pulitzer per la storia
1917–1925	Jean Jules Jusserand (1917) • James Ford Rhodes (1918) • Justin Harvey Smith (1920) • William Sowden Sims e Burton Jesse Hendrick (1921) • James Truslow Adams (1922) • Charles Warren (1923) • Charles Howard McIlwain (1924) • Frederic L. Paxson (1925)
1926–1950	Edward Channing (1926) • Samuel Flagg Bemis (1927) • Vernon Louis Parrington (1928) • Fred Albert Shannon (1929) • Claude Halstead Van Tyne (1930) • Bernadotte Everly Schmitt (1931) • John Pershing (1932) • Frederick Jackson Turner (1933) • Herbert Agar (1934) • Charles McLean Andrews (1935) • Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin (1936) • Van Wyck Brooks (1937) • Paul Herman Buck (1938) • Frank Luther Mott (1939) • Carl Sandburg (1940) • Marcus Lee Hansen (1941) • Margaret Leech (1942) • Esther Forbes (1943) • Merle Curti (1944) • Stephen Bonsal (1945) • Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1946) • James Phinney Baxter III (1947) • Bernard DeVoto (1948) • Roy Franklin Nichols (1949) • Oliver Waterman Larkin (1950)
1951–1975	Roscoe Carlyle Buley (1951) • Oscar Handlin (1952) • George Dangerfield (1953) • Bruce Catton (1954) • Paul Horgan (1955) • Richard Hofstadter (1956) • George Frost Kennan (1957) • Bray Hammond (1958) • Leonard Dupee White e Jean Schneider (1959) • Margaret Leech (1960) • Herbert Feis (1961) • Lawrence Henry Gipson (1962) • Constance McLaughlin Green (1963) • Sumner Chilton Powell (1964) • Irwin Unger (1965) • Perry Miller (1966) • William Goetzmann (1967) • Bernard Bailyn (1968) • Leonard Levy (1969) • Dean Acheson (1970) • James MacGregor Burns (1971) • Carl Degler (1972) • Michael Kammen (1973) • Daniel J. Boorstin (1974) • Dumas Malone (1975)
1976–2000	Paul Horgan (1976) • David Morris Potter (1977) • Alfred D. Chandler Jr. (1978) • Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1979) • Leon Litwack (1980) • Lawrence A. Cremin (1981) • C. Vann Woodward (1982) • Rhys Isaac (1983) • Thomas K. McCraw (1985) • Walter A. McDougall (1986) • Bernard Bailyn (1987) • Robert Bruce (1988) • James M. McPherson e Taylor Branch (1989) • Stanley Karnow (1990) • Laurel Ulrich (1991) • Mark Neely, Jr. (1992) • Gordon Wood (1993) • Doris Goodwin (1995) • Alan Taylor (1996) • Jack Rakove (1997) • Edward Larson (1998) • Edwin Burrows e Mike Wallace (1999) • David Kennedy (2000)
2001–2025	Joseph Ellis (2001) • Louis Menand (2002) • Rick Atkinson (2003) • Steven Hahn (2004) • David Fischer (2005) • David Oshinsky (2006) • Gene Roberts e Hank Klibanoff (2007) • Daniel Howe (2008) • Annette Gordon-Reed (2009) • Liaquat Ahamed (2010) • Eric Foner (2011) • Manning Marable (2012) • Fredrik Logevall (2013) • Alan Taylor (2014) • Elizabeth A. Fenn (2015) • T.J. Stiles (2016) • Heather Ann Thompson (2017) • Jack E. Davis (2018) • David W. Blight (2019) • W. Caleb McDaniel (2020) • Marcia Chatelain (2021) • Nicole Eustace e Ada Ferrer (2022) • Jefferson Cowie (2023) • Jacqueline Jones (2024)

Controllo di autorità	VIAF (EN) 41960359 · ISNI (EN) 0000 0000 8120 7185 · Europeana agent/base/70259 · LCCN (EN) n50024798 · GND (DE) 120495953 · BNF (FR) cb12606324r (data) · J9U (EN, HE) 987007307748005171 · NSK (HR) 000391377

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