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    T.J. Stiles, author portrait
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    T.J. Stiles

    T. J. STILES is the author of The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War, which received the Ambassador Book Award and the Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Custer’s Trials was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2016. An elected member of the Society of American Historians and a member of the board of the Authors Guild, he was a 2011 fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, a 2004 Gilder Lehrman Fellow in American History at the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and a member of the 2014 faculty of the World Economic Forum. He lives in San Francisco, California, with his wife and two children.

    T.J. Stiles is available for select readings and lectures. To inquire about a possible appearance, please contact Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau at speakers@penguinrandomhouse.com or visit www.prhspeakers.com.
     
    Custer's Trials (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
    Custer's Trials (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
    A Life on the Frontier of a New America
    T.J. Stiles
    9780307475947
    $21.00 US
    Paperback
    Oct 25, 2016
    Vintage
    The First Tycoon
    The First Tycoon
    The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
    T.J. Stiles
    9781400031740
    $26.00 US
    Paperback
    Apr 20, 2010
    Vintage
    Jesse James
    Jesse James
    Last Rebel of the Civil War
    T.J. Stiles
    9780375705588
    $19.00 US
    Paperback
    Oct 28, 2003
    Vintage

    Books

    Custer's Trials (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
    Custer's Trials (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
    A Life on the Frontier of a New America
    T.J. Stiles
    9780307475947
    $21.00 US
    Paperback
    Oct 25, 2016
    Vintage
    The First Tycoon
    The First Tycoon
    The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
    T.J. Stiles
    9781400031740
    $26.00 US
    Paperback
    Apr 20, 2010
    Vintage
    Jesse James
    Jesse James
    Last Rebel of the Civil War
    T.J. Stiles
    9780375705588
    $19.00 US
    Paperback
    Oct 28, 2003
    Vintage

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