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David McCullough

Historian and biographer; twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize

United States · 1933–2022

American narrative historian and biographer, author of Truman and John Adams, both of which won the Pulitzer Prize, and narrator of Ken Burns's documentaries.

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Question Which writers or artists most influenced your work? Taste & recommendation read 39 other answers →

We had the classics, published by Scribners, all the great stories by Robert Louis Stevenson and the rest which were illustrated by the great N.C. Wyeth. In those days, when childhood diseases were extended, you were home with the measles or mumps or chicken pox for two or three weeks at a time, and you were supposed to stay in bed. There wasn’t any television, there wasn’t much to do, so I would stare at those paintings in those books by the hour. I didn’t read them all. I loved to just look at those pictures and study every detail. I could sit down and draw most of those pictures right now without having to refresh my memory because they were so exciting to me.

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Williamsburg, Virginia, 3 June 1995 source ↗

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