Dumas Malone

Dumas Malone
Born	10 January 1892 Coldwater, Mississippi, U.S.
Died	27 December 1986 (aged 94) Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.
Spouse	Elizabeth Gifford ​ (m. 1925)​
Relatives	Kemp Malone (brother)
Awards	Pulitzer Prize for History (1975) Presidential Medal of Freedom (1983)
Academic background
Education	Emory College (BA) Yale University (BDiv, MA, PhD)
Thesis	The Public Life of Thomas Cooper, 1783–1839 (1923)
Doctoral advisor	Allen Johnson
Academic work
Discipline	Historiography
Institutions	Yale University University of Virginia Harvard University Columbia University
Notable works	Jefferson and His Time
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Dumas Malone (DEW-mah;^[1] January 10, 1892 – December 27, 1986) was an American historian, minister,^[2] and biographer. A professor by occupation, Malone spent the majority of his career teaching at the University of Virginia (UVA), where he served as the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History.^[3][4]

Malone was best known for his six-volume biography, Jefferson and His Time, for which he received the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for History. Completed in 1981, the series became Malone's defining work and is considered the foremost authoritative biography of Thomas Jefferson.^[5][6] Before beginning a lifelong career as a biographer, he was editor-in-chief of the twenty-volume Dictionary of American Biography and the third director of the Harvard University Press. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.