- Ariel Durant
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Ariel Durant (10 May 1898 — 25 October 1981) was the co-author of The Story of Civilization.
Biography
Durant was born in Proskurov (now Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine) as Chaya Kaufman to Ethel Appel Kaufman and Joseph Kaufman. The family emigrated to the United States in 1901. She met her future husband, Will Durant, while a student at Ferrer Modern School in New York. Will was a teacher at the school at the time, but resigned his post in order to marry Ariel. She was fifteen at the time of the wedding.
Ariel and Will Durant were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1968 for Rousseau and Revolution, the tenth volume of The Story of Civilization. In 1977 they were presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Gerald Ford and Ariel was nominated as "Woman of the Year" by the city of Los Angeles. The Durants' autobiography A Dual Autobiography was published in 1978. ISBN 0-671-23078-6
Ariel Durant and her husband are buried in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
External links
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction (1962–1975) - The Making of the President, 1960 by Theodore White (1962)
- The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman (1963)
- Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter (1964)
- O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones (1965)
- Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale (1966)
- The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis (1967)
- Rousseau and Revolution, vol. 10 of The Story of Civilization, by Will and Ariel Durant (1968)
- So Human an Animal by Rene Jules Dubos/The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer (1969)
- Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence by Erik H. Erikson (1970)
- The Rising Sun by John Toland (1971)
- Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 by Barbara W. Tuchman (1972)
- Fire in the Lake by Frances FitzGerald (1973)
- The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker (1974)
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (1975)
- Complete list
- (1962–1975)
- (1976–2000)
- (2001–2025)
Categories:- 1898 births
- 1981 deaths
- American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
- American historians
- American memoirists
- American women writers
- Encyclopedists
- Jewish American historians
- Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction winners
- Art Students League of New York alumni
- People from Los Angeles, California
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