1935 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner
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R. E. Lee
Douglas S. Freeman
Following the immediate critical success of Lee’s Dispatches, author Douglas Southall Freeman was approached by New York publisher Charles Scribner’s Sons and invited to write a biography of Robert E. Lee. He accepted, and his research of Lee was exhaustiv…