RARE "Pulitzer Prize for History" Margaret Leech Signed Note For Sale
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RARE "Pulitzer Prize for History" Margaret Leech Signed Note:
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Up for sale a RARE! "Pulitzer Prize for History" Margaret Leech Hand Signed Note.
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Margaret Kernochan Leech
(November 7, 1893 – February 24, 1974), also known as Margaret Pulitzer,
was an American historian and fiction writer. She won the Pulitzer Prize for History both in 1942 (Reveille in Washington, Harper)
(first woman to win for history) and in 1960 (In the Days of McKinley, Harper). She was born in Newburgh, New York, obtained a B.A. from Vassar
College in 1915, and worked for fund-raising organizations during
World War I, including the American Committee for Devastated
France. She started her writing career for the Condé Nast publishing company before World
War I. Leech also worked in advertising and publicity. After the war, she
became friendly with members of the Algonquin Round Table, including
critic-raconteur Alexander Woollcott. She was an associate of
some of the wittiest and most brilliant men and women of literature that spent
time at the Algonquin Hotel in Manhattan.
In 1928 she married Ralph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York
World newspaper. (His father, Joseph
Pulitzer, had established the Pulitzer
Prize by a bequest to Columbia University.) They had one daughter,
Susan. Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865, is an account of Washington,
D.C. during the American Civil War and deals with, among other
things, Abraham Lincoln and his wife, along with Rose Greenhow,
the Confederate spy whose work was helpful in the Southern forces winning the First Battle of Bull Run. Passages from
the book are quoted in George Saunders' novel, Lincoln In The Bardo
(2016). In the Days of McKinley is a biography of President William
McKinley, carefully told in minute detail, and he is shown as a more
attractive person and better president than some have depicted him. In addition
to the history Pulitzer, the book was awarded the Bancroft
Prize in 1960. Leech also wrote three novels: The Back of the
Book (1924), Tin Wedding (1926), and The Feathered Nest
(1928) and, in 1927, co-wrote a biography of Anthony
Comstock with Heywood Broun.[ Leech died of a stroke in New York
City at age 80.
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