Person
David Levering Lewis
Acting · Born 1936-05-25 · Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia David Levering Lewis (born May 25, 1936) is an American historian, a Julius Silver University Professor, and a professor of history at New York University. He is twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, for part one and part two of his biography of W. E. B. Du Bois (in 1994 and 2001, respectively). He is the first author to win Pulitzer Prizes for biography for two successive volumes on the same subject. The author of eight books and editor of two more, Lewis concentrates on comparative history with special focus on twentieth-century United States social history and civil rights. His interests include nineteenth-century Africa, twentieth-century France, and Islamic Spain.
Known for

Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP
Self

The Ornament of the World
Himself (New York University)
Filmography
- 2025Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACPSelf
- 2019The Ornament of the WorldHimself (New York University)
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