Historian David McCullough to Speak
At Academic Awards Banquet in May
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David McCullough |
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian David McCullough will be help honor Oklahoma’s outstanding public school students and educators when he gives the keynote address at the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence Academic Awards Banquet May 22 at the Renaissance Tulsa Hotel and Convention Center in Tulsa.
The gala awards banquet honors 100 of Oklahoma’s top public high school seniors as Academic All-Staters and five outstanding educators as Medal for Excellence winners. Names of the 2010 award winners will be posted online at www.ofe.org beginning Feb. 22.
Widely acclaimed as a “master of the art of narrative history,” McCullough is twice winner of the National Book Award. In December 2006, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award.
McCullough’s most recent book, 1776, sold more than 3 million copies and was a number-one New York Times national bestseller in both hardcover and paperback,. His previous work, John Adams, now in its 63rd printing, remains one of the most critically acclaimed and widely read American biographies of all time. The book was the basis for the 2008 HBO mini-series John Adams, produced by Tom Hanks and starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney.
McCullough’s other books include The Johnstown Flood, The Great Bridge, The Path Between the Seas, Mornings on Horseback, Brave Companions and Truman. His work has been published in 10 languages and, in all, nearly 9 million copies are in print. His current project is a book about Americans in Paris, from the 1830s to 1930s.
In a crowded, productive career, McCullough has been an editor, essayist, teacher, lecturer, and familiar presence on public television -- as host of Smithsonian World, The American Experience, and narrator of numerous documentaries including The Civil War.
McCullough has lectured throughout the United States and abroad, as well as at the White House. He is one of the few private citizens to speak before a joint session of Congress.
For more information on this year’s banquet, visit the foundation web site at www.ofe.org.