orig. Barbara Wertheim
born Jan. 30, 1912, New York, N.Y., U.S.
died Feb. 6, 1989, Greenwich, Conn.
U.S. historian.
She wrote for The Nation and other publications before beginning to write most of the books that made her a leading popular historian. Marked by a masterly literary style and a powerful grasp of complex issues, they include The Zimmermann Telegram (1958); The Guns of August (1962, Pulitzer Prize), on the first month of World War I; Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45 (1970, Pulitzer Prize), a study of the China-U.S. relationship; and A Distant Mirror (1978), concerning 14th-century France.
Barbara Tuchman.
s Jerry Bauer