We spoke with him several times during his career, and today we feature our conversation with him from 2015 about his final biography, "The Wright Brothers. Not only was McCullough a writer of histories, but through his association with filmmaker Ken Burns and PBS, McCullough became a voice of history, as the writer narrated a number of Ken Burns' early films including the ground-breaking "The Civil War," as well as a number of documentaries in his role as host of PBS's American Experience historical documentary series. A two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography ( Truman, 1992 and John Adams, 2001), McCullough was the author of 12 books of history and biography, including the stories of the Johnstown Flood, the building of the Panama Canal and the Brooklyn Bridge, the year 1776, and the settlement of the American Midwest. The Pulitzer Prizewinning, bestselling biography of Americas founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly. Rosalee Barnes McCullough died in June at the age of 89.On this edition of StudioTulsa, we remember one of America's most read and popular historians, the late David McCullough, who died Sunday, August 7th at the age of 89. He married Rosalee Barnes in 1954 and the couple had five children. After school, he moved to New York City and got a job with Sports Illustrated. He attended Yale University where he earned an English literature degree. McCullough was born in Pittsburgh in 1933. In 2016, McCullough was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award. McCullough also earned National Book Awards for the The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal and Mornings on Horseback. McCullough won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for Truman, a biography about the 33rd president of the United States and another Prize in 2002 for John Adams, a biography about the second US president.
“As an historian, he paints with words, giving us pictures of the American people that live, breathe, and above all, confront the fundamental issues of courage, achievement, and moral character,” the citation for his honorary degree from Yale University read, according to his biography on the Simon and Schuster website. McCullough was known for writing several deeply researched and popular works about important American figures and points in history such as the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and the first flight by the Wright Brothers. McCullough died on Sunday at his home in Hingham, Massachusetts, surrounded by his five children, according to a Facebook page maintained by his publisher, Simon and Schuster. Massachusetts: David McCullough, best-selling author and renowned historian who won Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies of presidents John Adams and Harry Truman, has died at the age of 89, his publisher said on Monday.
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