A renowned academic, Wood was hit by a car as he was crossing a supermarket’s parking lot and later died of the injuries
Gordon S Wood, a Pulitzer prize-winning author and historian, was killed on Sunday when he was struck by a car in a supermarket parking lot in Rhode Island.
Wood, 92, won the Pulitzer in 1993 in the history category for The Radicalisation of the American Revolution, a landmark tome that advanced the theory of the break with Britain being at least as much of an internal social and political transformation as a desire to be rid of colonial masters.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/08/gordon-s-wood-pulitzer-prize-historian-dead
Author : Richard Luscombe
Publish date : 2026-06-08 19:32:00
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