Douglas Southall Freeman

Douglas Southall Freeman , 1886-1953, American editor and historian, b. Lynchburg, Va. He was editor of the Richmond News Leader from 1915 to 1949, when he retired to devote most of his time to historical writing. An authority on military strategy and on the military history of the Civil War, Freeman wrote R. E. Lee (4 vol., 1934-35), which won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for biography, and Lee's Lieutenants (3 vol., 1942-44). He edited A Calendar of Confederate Papers (1908) and also wrote Virginia, a Gentle Dominion (1924), The South to Posterity (1939), and John Stewart Bryan (1947). His biography of George Washington (7 vol., 1949-57), the last volume of which was written by his assistants John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958.

Freeman, Douglas Southall (1886–1953), editor of the Richmond News Leader (1915–53), professor of journalism at Columbia, and author of R.E. Lee (4 vols., 1934–35, Pulitzer Prize); Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command (3 vols., 1942–44); The South to Posterity (1939), lectures on the Confederacy; and George Washington (6 vols., 1948–54; vol. 7, 1957, completed by two assistants, and all awarded a Pulitzer Prize).