T.J. Stiles is the author of Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for history, published by Alfred A. Knopf. He also wrote The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, which received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for biography and 2009 National Book Award for nonfiction, and Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War, winner of the Ambassador Book Award and the Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship. An elected member of the Society of American Historians, he served on the 2012 faculty of the World Economic Forum, was a 2011 Guggenheim fellow in biography, and was the first Gilder Lehrman Fellow in American History, 2004–05, at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He now lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and children.
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