S. C. Gwynne | |
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| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Genres | non-fiction |
| Notable awards | Gerald Loeb Award 1992 |
Samuel C. Gwynne III[1] is an American writer.[2][3] He holds a bachelor's degree in history from Princeton University and a master's degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University.[4]
Gwynne was born in Worcester, Massachusetts to Sam Gwynne Jr,[1] and grew up mainly in New Canaan, Connecticut. He was educated at The Hill School,[1] then majored in history at Princeton University, graduating in 1974.[5] He also has a master's degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University, where he was awarded a graduate fellowship and studied under novelist John Barth.[3] He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, the artist Katie Maratta.[3]
Prior to his career as a journalist and historian, Gwynne was a French teacher at Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland. He was an international banker with both Ameritrust in Cleveland, Ohio and First Interstate Bank in Los Angeles and traveled extensively overseas.
He worked for Time magazine as a correspondent, bureau chief, and senior editor. He was later executive editor at Texas Monthly.[6][7] His journalism has appeared in the New York Times, Harper's, Los Angeles Times, Outside Magazine, Dallas Morning News, California Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal, among others. His New York Times Bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon (2010) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the General Nonfiction category and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His book Rebel Yell, a biography of Stonewall Jackson – also a New York Times Bestseller – was a finalist for the PEN Award for Literary Biography and for the National Book Critics Circle Award in history. He is also the author of The Perfect Pass: American Genius and the Reinvention of Football (2016), and, most recently, Hymns of the Republic: the Story of The Final Year of the American Civil War (2019). His newest book, His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine, was released on May 2, 2023.
