Allan Nevins
Historian
Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian and journalist who did extensive writing on the events and figures of the Civil War.
He earned a master's degree in English from the University of Illinois in 1913.
His biography of President Grover Cleveland won the 1933 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
He was once married to Mary Fleming.
He wrote the foreword to John F. Kennedy's book, Profiles in Courage.