Joseph Frazier Wall

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Joseph Frazier Wall
Born(1920-07-10)July 10, 1920
Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.
DiedOctober 9, 1995(1995-10-09) (aged 75)
EducationGrinnell College
Harvard University (MA)
Columbia University (PhD)
OccupationHistorian
SpouseBeatrice Mills Wall
Children3
AwardsBancroft Prize (1971)

Joseph Frazier Wall (July 10, 1920 in Des Moines, Iowa – October 9, 1995) was an American historian and professor of history at Grinnell College.[1]

He was born in Des Moines, and graduated from Grinnell College in 1941.[1] He gained an MA from Harvard University and a PhD from Columbia University.[2] He joined Grinnell in 1947. He took a leave of absence in the late 1980s to be chairman of the History Department at the State University of New York in Albany. He retired as Professor Emeritus in 1990.[1]

His biography of Andrew Carnegie won the Bancroft Prize in 1971,[1] and was recommended by Charlie Munger in his book Poor Charlie's Almanack. His biography on the Du Pont family was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.[2]

He married Beatrice Mills Wall (1918–2012); they had three children.[1]

Books

  • Henry Watterson: Reconstructed Rebel, 1956, Oxford University Press
  • Andrew Carnegie, 1970, Oxford University Press
  • Skibo, 1984, Oxford University Press
  • The Andrew Carnegie Reader, 1992, University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Alfred I. Du Pont; The Man and His Family, 1990, Oxford University Press

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Saxon, Wolfgang (October 13, 1995). "Joseph F. Wall, 75; Wrote Biographies Of Business Leaders". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
  2. ^ a b "Joseph Frazier Wall". carnegiemuseums.org.


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