Gordon S. Wood
History & Biography Pavilion
10-10:30 am
Book Signing
11:30-12:30 pm
Gordon S. Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and professor of history at Brown University. He is the author of many award-winning works, including The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, which won the Bancroft and John H. Dunning prizes and was nominated for the National Book Award; The Radicalism of the American Revolution, awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Emerson Prize; and The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, recipient of the Julia Ward Howe Prize. His latest book is The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History (Penguin, 2008). He contributes regularly to The New Republic and The New York Review of Books, and he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Photo Credit: John Abromowski-Brown University