Lincoln Biographer Donald Dead

David Herbert Donald, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Civil War and American South, died this past Sunday. A professor emeritus at Harvard University, Donald won Pulitzers for biographies of abolitionist Charles Sumner and novelist Thomas Wolfe. His latest book is Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War. He was best known for his books on Lincoln. An award was named after him, the David Herbert Donald Prize for “excellence in Lincoln studies.”