Arthur Walworth

Arthur Walworth (July 9, 1903 – January 10, 2005) is most noted as a biographer of Woodrow Wilson. He was born in Newton, Massachusetts. He won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Woodrow Wilson, Volume I: American Prophet.^[1]

He also wrote about China and Japan. He taught at the Yali School of Changsha in 1925 and was a Senior Bachelor of the Yale's China group.^[2] In 1966 he wrote a book on Commodore Matthew Perry's expedition.^[3]

He never married or had children, but he was survived by a sister. He died in Needham, Massachusetts.

Web sources

1. Washington Post obituary
2. Yale China obituary on page 7 at the Wayback Machine (archived January 8, 2007)
3. Plymouth University