William Taubman
William Taubman | |
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Taubman in 2018 | |
| Born | William Chase Taubman November 13, 1941 New York City, U.S. |
| Spouse | Jane A. Taubman |
| Awards | National Book Critics Circle Award Pulitzer Prize for Biography (2004) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Bronx High School of Science |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (B.A.) Columbia University (M.A., Ph.D.) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Political science |
| Institutions | Amherst College |
| Notable works | Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (2003), Gorbachev: His Life and Times (2017) |
| Website | williamtaubmanbooks |
William Chase Taubman (born November 13, 1941, in New York City) is an American political scientist. His biography of Nikita Khrushchev won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2004 and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 2003.
He is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1962, an M.A. from Columbia University in 1965, a Certificate of the Russian Institute in 1965, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1969.
He is currently Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science at Amherst College.
Taubman was the recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim fellowship.