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Biography
Walter Seff Isaacson is an American journalist who has written biographies of Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Jennifer Doudna, and Elon Musk. As of 2024, Isaacson is a professor at Tulane University and, since 2018, an interviewer for the PBS and CNN news show Amanpour & Company.
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Awards & recognition
- National Humanities Medal · 2021
- Jefferson Lecture · 2014
- Benjamin Franklin Medal · 2013
- Carl Sandburg Literary Award · 2013
- Rhodes Scholarship · 1974
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- The Nichols-Chancellor's Medal
- Pulitzer Prize — Biography · 1993 · nominated
