Garry wills biography of christopher columbus

When Columbus claimed to see a light before his crewman spotted land on the first voyage, this was made a mystical revelation of “the new world..

Morison was not only a historian but a sailor, and his life of Columbus focuses on the fundamentals: the Genoese discoverer as a sailor and.

Few stories in history are more familiar than the one of Christopher Columbus sailing west for the Indies and finding instead the New World.

When Columbus claimed to see a light before his crewman spotted land on the first voyage, this was made a mystical revelation of “the new world.

Garry Wills, "Goodby, Columbus," The New York Review of Books (22 No- vember Russell Shaw, "Christopher Columbus: Hero or Villain?," Columbia (February.

Garry Wills

American author, political philosopher and historian (born 1934)

For the American jazz musician, see Gary Willis.

Garry Wills (born May 22, 1934) is an American author, journalist, political philosopher, and historian, specializing in American history, politics, and religion, especially the history of the Catholic Church.

He won a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1993.

Wills has written over fifty books and, since 1973, has been a frequent reviewer for The New York Review of Books.^[1] He became a faculty member of the history department at Northwestern University in 1980, where he is an Emeritus Professor of History.

Early years

Wills was born on May 22, 1934, in Atlanta, Georgia.^[2] His father, Jack Wills, was from a Protestant background, and his mother was from an Irish Catholic family.^[3] He was reared as Catholic and grew up in Michigan and Wisconsin, graduating in 1951 from Campion High School, a Jesuit institut