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 in from Grinnell 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
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "Joseph Frazier Wall". carnegiemuseums.org.
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