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Garry Wills

Professor of History Emeritus,
Northwestern University

Garry Wills

Professor of History Emeritus,
Northwestern University

Garry Wills (Ph.D., Yale, 1961) is an American author, journalist, and historian, specializing in American history, politics, and religion, especially the history of the Catholic Church. He won a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1993.

Wills has written nearly forty books and, since 1973, has been a frequent reviewer for The New York Review of Books. He became a faculty member of the History Department at Northwestern University in 1980, where he is currently an Emeritus Professor of History.