Rick Atkinson

Rick Atkinson
at 2015 National Book Festival
Born	Lawrence Rush Atkinson IV (1952-11-15) November 15, 1952 (age 72) Munich, then West Germany
Alma mater	East Carolina University (B.A.) University of Chicago (M.A.)
Occupations	Journalist editor historian author
Agent	Raphael Sagalyn
Spouse	Jane Ann Chestnut ​ (m. 1979)​
Children	Rush, Sarah
Parents	Larry Atkinson Margaret Jean Atkinson
Awards	Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, 1982 Livingston Award for international reporting George Polk Award, Long Island University John Hancock Award for excellence in business and financial journalism, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. Pulitzer Prize for History, 2003 Gen. Omar N. Bradley Chair of Strategic Leadership, U.S. Army War College and Dickinson College, 2004–05 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for lifetime achievement in military writing, 2010 Vincent J. Dooley Distinguished Fellow, honor bestowed by the Georgia Historical Society, 2019 -other awards in journalism
Website	The Revolution Trilogy The Liberation Trilogy,
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Lawrence Rush "Rick" Atkinson IV (born November 15, 1952) is an American author, most recently of The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780, the second volume in the American RevolutionTrilogy, following The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777.^[2] He has won Pulitzer Prizes in history and journalism.^[3]

After working as a newspaper reporter, editor, and foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, Atkinson turned to writing military history. His eight books include narrative accounts of five different American wars.

His Liberation Trilogy, a history of the American role in the liberation of Europe in World War II, concluded with the publication of The Guns at Last Light in May 2013. In 2010, he received the $100,000 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.^[4]