Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Arthur Walworth

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Needham, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1981
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Pulitzer Prize
Arthur Walworth (1903–2005) was an American writer. He is most noted as a biographer of Woodrow Wilson. He was born in Newton, Massachusetts. He won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Woodrow Wilson, Volume I: American Prophet. He also wrote about China and Japan. He taught at the Yali School of Changsha in 1925 and was a senior bachelor of the Yale's China group. In 1966 he wrote a book on Commodore Matthew Perry's expedition.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Arthur Walworth worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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