Known For Writer
Gender Female
Birthday 1912-01-30
Deathday 1989-02-06 (77 years old)
Place of Birth New York City, New York, USA
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American historian and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August (1962), a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971), a biography of General Joseph Stilwell.[2]