Bernard Bailyn (9 September 1922 – 7 August 2020) was an American historian, author, and academic specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He was a professor at Harvard University from 1953. Bailyn has won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice (in 1968 and 1987). In 1998 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected him for the Jefferson Lecture. He was a recipient of the 2010 National Humanities Medal. He was married to MIT Professor of Management Lotte Bailyn (née Lotte Lazarsfeld) and was the father of Yale astrophysicist Charles Bailyn and Stony Brook linguist John Bailyn.
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9 September 1922 Hartford, Connecticut
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Died |
7 August 2020 (aged 97)
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Zodiac | Virgo |
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