- Born: 1920
- Birthplace: Sterling, IL
- Died: December 13, 1997
The winner of the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for History for his work, The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics, Donald Fehrenbacher was a professor of history and American Studies at Stanford University. He wrote his first book, Chicago Giant (1957), about Illinois politician, John Wentworth, and won the award of the Association for State and Local History. The author of four books about Abraham Lincoln, Fehrenbacher was considered the foremost Lincoln scholar of his generation, and, in 1997, received the Lincoln Prize for his life's work on the Civil War.
Fehrenbacher also won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for The Impending Crisi, a book begun by Stanford colleague, David Potter, and completed by Fehrenbacher.
Most Famous Works
- Prelude to Greatness (1962)
- The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics (1978)
