Gordon S. Wood

Gordon S. Wood
Wood in 2008
Born	Gordon Stewart Wood[1] (1933-11-27) November 27, 1933 (age 90) Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupations	Historian author
Children	3, including Christopher
Awards	Pulitzer Prize (1993) Bancroft Prize (1970) National Humanities Medal (2010)
Academic background
Education	Tufts University (BA) Harvard University (MA, PhD)
Doctoral advisor	Bernard Bailyn
Academic work
Discipline	History
Institutions	College of William and Mary Harvard University University of Michigan Brown University Cambridge University Northwestern University

Gordon Stewart Wood (born November 27, 1933) is an American historian and professor at Brown University. He is a recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992). His book The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 (1969) won the 1970 Bancroft Prize. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.