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S. C. "Sam" Gwynne is an American writer.[1][2] He holds a bachelor's degree in history from Princeton University and a master's degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University.[3]

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S. C. Gwynne
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Princeton University
Genres	non-fiction
Notable awards	Gerald Loeb Award 1992

Life

He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts and grew up mainly in New Canaan, Connecticut. He attended secondary school at The Hill School.[4] He majored in history at Princeton University and graduated in 1974.[5] He also has a master's degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University, where he was awarded a graduate fellowship and studied under novelist John Barth.[2] He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, the artist Katie Maratta.[2]

Prior to his career as a journalist and historian, Gwynne was a French teacher at Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland. He was an international banker with both Ameritrust in Cleveland, Ohio and First Interstate Bank in Los Angeles and traveled extensively overseas.

He worked for Time magazine as a correspondent, bureau chief, and senior editor. He was later Executive Editor at Texas Monthly.[6][7] His journalism has appeared in the New York Times, Harper's, Los Angeles Times, Outside Magazine, Dallas Morning News, California Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal, among others. His New York Times Bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon (2010) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the General Nonfiction category and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His book "Rebel Yell," a biography of Stonewall Jackson — also a New York Times Bestseller — was a finalist for the PEN Award for Literary Biography and for the National Book Critics Circle Award in history. He is also the author of The Perfect Pass: American Genius and the Reinvention of Football (2016), and, most recently, Hymns of the Republic: the Story of The Final Year of the American Civil War (2019).

Works

• Selling Money, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986, ISBN 9781555840051.
• The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI, Random House, 1993
• Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Tribe in American History, Scribner, 2010, ISBN 9781849018203.[8]
• Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson. Scribner. 30 September 2014. ISBN 978-1-4516-7328-9.[9]
• The Perfect Pass: American Genius and the Reinvention of Football, Scribner, 2016, ISBN 9781501116193
• Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War, Scribner, 2019, ISBN 9781501116223

Awards

• Gerald Loeb Award for Magazines for a series of articles on the BCCI scandal[10]
• Jack Anderson Award For Best Investigative Reporting
• National Headliners Club Award for Reporting
• Oklahoma Book Award
• Texas Book Award
• John Hancock award for Excellence in Financial Reporting
• National City and Regional Magazine Award for Writer of the Year
• Selected for "Best American Crime Writing" 2006

References

External links

External audio
Comanche Nation: The Rise And Fall Of An 'Empire', Fresh Air, June 23, 2010

• http://www.scgwynne.com/
• http://www.historynet.com/interview-with-author-s-c-gwynne.htm
• Appearances on C-SPAN

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