R E Lee is a Pulitzer Prize winning 1934 biography of Confederate General Robert E Lee by American author Douglas S Freeman. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
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| 1915/00/00 | Douglas Southall Freeman | Author | Douglas Freeman is hired to write a 75,000 word biography of Robert E Lee for Charles Scribner's Son. | ||||
| 1916/00/00 | Douglas Southall Freeman | Author | Douglas Freeman discovers, to his surprise, that most of the documentary sources where not utilized in previous biographies on R E Lee. | ||||
| 1923/00/00 | Maxwell E Perkins | Editor | Maxwell E Perkins supports Freeman's plan for a description of Lee's life "that will be as nearly final as existing material permits." | ||||
| 1934/00/00 | Douglas Southall Freeman | Author | "R E Lee" by Douglas S Freeman is published in four volumes by Scribner, 1934-1935. | ||||
| 1934/00/00 | Charles Scribner's Sons | Publisher | "R E Lee" by Douglas S Freeman is published in four volumes by Scribner, 1934-1935. | ||||
| 1935/04/00 | Douglas Southall Freeman | Author | Douglas S Freeman is awarded a Pulitzer Prize for "R E Lee". After 24 years in the making, the four volume work is one million words. |
| Particulars for R E Lee (book): | |||
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| Narrative Arts | Biography | ||
| Art Type | Book | a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. | |
| Narrative Arts | Factual | concerned with what is actually true rather than interpretations of or reactions to it | |
| Award | Pulitzer Prize | ||
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| Original Language: | English | ||
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