Joseph J. Ellis

Historian, Author

1943 –

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Who is Joseph J. Ellis?

Joseph John Ellis is an American historian and professor whose work focuses on the lives and times of the founders of the United States of America. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson won a National Book Award and Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation won a Pulitzer Prize. Both these books were bestsellers.

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Born
Jul 18, 1943
Washington, D.C.
Also known as
  • Joseph John Ellis
  • Joseph Ellis
Ethnicity
  • White American
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • PhD, Yale University
    History
    ( - 1969)
  • College of William and Mary
Employment
  • Mount Holyoke College
Lived in
  • Amherst

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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