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Dumas Malone

デュマス・マローン

Dyumasu Marōn

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1892-01-10 （Coldwater, Mississippi）
Died
1986-12-27 （Charlottesville, Virginia） age 94
Nationality
American
Languages
English
Religion
Protestant
Residence History
Coldwater, Mississippi → Oxford, Mississippi → Brunswick, Georgia → Andrew College, Georgia → New Haven, Connecticut → Charlottesville, Virginia → Washington, D.C. → Lincoln, Massachusetts

Career

Occupations
historian, biographer, university professor, editor, minister
Active Years
1910-1986
Affiliations
University of Virginia, Yale University, Harvard University Press, Columbia University
Memberships
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Virginia Historical Society, Phi Beta Kappa
Influenced By
Allen Johnson, Edwin Alderman, Charles Peppler
Influenced
Jefferson scholars

Education

Emory College (now Emory University)
Classics
Degree: Bachelor of Arts
Period: 1906-1910
Year of Graduation: 1910
Country: United States
Matriculated at age 14; youngest member of class of 1910
Yale Divinity School
Divinity School
Degree: Bachelor of Divinity
Period: 1915-1916
Year of Graduation: 1916
Country: United States
Earned Fogg scholarship for highest grades
Yale University
Department of History
Degree: PhD
Period: 1919-1923
Year of Graduation: 1923
Country: United States
Thesis: 'The Public Life of Thomas Cooper, 1783–1839'; won John Addison Porter Prize; advisor: Allen Johnson

Awards

Pulitzer Prize for History
1975
Work: Jefferson and His Time
Organization: Columbia University
Result: Winner
Presidential Medal of Freedom
1983
Organization: President of the United States
Result: 受賞者

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Jefferson and His Time

1948 Biography

Definitive six-volume biography of Thomas Jefferson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History.

American RevolutionEnlightenmentpolitical leadershipVirginia history

The Public Life of Thomas Cooper, 1783–1839

1926 Biography

Biography of Thomas Cooper based on his doctoral dissertation.

American political history

Bibliography

  • Jefferson the Virginian (1948)
  • Jefferson and the Rights of Man (1951)
  • Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty (1962)
  • Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801–1805 (1970)
  • Jefferson the President: Second Term, 1805–1809 (1974)
  • The Sage of Monticello (1981)
  • The Public Life of Thomas Cooper, 1783–1839 (1926)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
narrativelucidstraightforwardsober
Recurring Motifs
Jefferson's political lifeprecision in American historybiographical rigor

Health

  • brief illness
    1986年12月
    cause of death

Legacy

Renowned for his authoritative six-volume biography 'Jefferson and His Time,' winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for History. Served as Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia; awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1983.

Academic Societies

  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Massachusetts Historical Society
  • Phi Beta Kappa Society

Archives

  • University of Virginia Library

In Popular Culture

  • First five volumes gifted to Queen Elizabeth II by Governor Mills Godwin

Quotes

  • That was lucky for me. I am sure they did not pay much attention to my old undergraduate record. I was too busy exploring life to do full justice to my studies.
    Source: Upon induction into Phi Beta Kappa (1930)
  • the most painful decision I ever made.
    Source: Upon leaving University of Virginia for DAB (1929)

Trivia

  • Brother was linguist Kemp Malone
  • Played center on Emory College football team
  • Member of Sigma Nu fraternity
  • Oldest recipient of Pulitzer Prize at the time