5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American historian at UC Davis who has won two Pulitzer Prizes — William Cooper's Town and The Internal Enemy — and whose American Colonies provides the most comprehensive single-volume history of colonial American history, including the Spanish, French, and British colonies.
American author who won the Pulitzer Prize for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) — a work of intense, microscopic observation of nature — and who wrote The Writing Life (1989), one of the most beloved accounts of the writing process and the demands of creative work.
Argentine-American novelist — author of In the Distance (2017 Pulitzer finalist) and Trust (2023 Pulitzer Prize winner) — the most literarily ambitious novelist writing about American capitalism and finance.
American playwright and screenwriter who wrote Doubt (Pulitzer Prize 2005), Moonstruck (Academy Award screenplay), and Danny and the Deep Blue Sea — whose work consistently explores moral certainty, doubt, and the mystery of other minds.
American author — author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Pulitzer Prize, 1987) — the definitive history of the Manhattan Project — and Dark Sun (on the hydrogen bomb) — the most important science-policy historian in America.