Joan D. Hedrick
{{Short description|American historian}}
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Joan Doran Hedrick (born May 1, 1944) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Jack London.{{cite web |title=Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life, by Joan D. Hedrick (Oxford University Press) |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/joan-d-hedrick |website=Pulitzer.org |accessdate=5 August 2018}}
Early life and career
Hedrick was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Paul Thomas Doran and Jane Connorton Doran.{{cite book |last1=Brennan |first1=Elizabeth A. |last2= Clarage |first2= Elizabeth |title=Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners |date=1999 |publisher=Oryx Press |location=Phoenix, AZ |isbn=1573561118 |pages=50–51 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&q=%22JOan+Doran%22+hedrick&pg=PA50 |accessdate=7 August 2018}}
She earned an A.B. degree from Vassar College in 1966, and a Ph.D. from Brown University in 1974. Her Ph.D. dissertation at Brown was titled "The True American: Henry Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, 'Prufrock', and Others".{{cite book |title=The True American: Henry Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, "Prufrock", and Others |publisher=OCLC |oclc=2407951 }} She taught at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut from 1972 through 1980 and in 1980 began teaching at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
Works
In 1982, Hedrick's first book, Solitary Comrade: Jack London and His Work, was published by the University of North Carolina Press. Her book Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life was published in 1994 by Oxford University Press and won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.{{cite news |last1=McClurg |first1=Jocelyn |title=Trinity College Professor Wins Pulitzer |url=https://www.courant.com/1995/04/19/trinity-college-professor-wins-pulitzer-2/ |access-date=August 5, 2018 |work=Hartford Courant |date=April 19, 1995}} The book received favorable reviews from The New York Times{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/19/books/books-of-the-times-an-author-s-life-reflects-19th-century-america.html|title=Books of The Times; An Author's Life Reflects 19th-Century America|last=Jefferson|first=Margo|work=The New York Times |date=19 January 1994 |access-date=2018-11-06|language=en}} and Publishers Weekly.{{Cite news|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-19-506639-5|title=Nonfiction Book Review: Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life by Joan D. Hedrick, Author Oxford University Press, USA $35 (544p) ISBN 978-0-19-506639-5|work=PublishersWeekly.com|access-date=2018-11-06|language=en}}
References
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External links
- [http://internet2.trincoll.edu/facprofiles/Default.aspx?fid=1000648 Faculty page at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut]
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{{PulitzerPrize BiographyorAutobiographyAuthors 1976–2000}}
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Category:21st-century American historians
Category:Historians of the United States
Category:Brown University alumni
Category:Vassar College alumni
Category:Trinity College (Connecticut) faculty
Category:Wesleyan University faculty
Category:Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners
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