John Wood Sweet
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John Wood Sweet is an American historian, author, and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1] Sweet's book, The Sewing Girl's Tale (Holt, 2022), was a New York Times “Editors’ Choice,” the Journal of the American Revolution’s Book of the Year[2]—and won the Bancroft Prize[3], the Parkman Prize[4], the James H. Broussard Best Biography Prize,[5] and the Gotham Book Award[6]. “A masterpiece,” wrote Fergus M. Bordewich in the Wall Street Journal. “The Sewing Girl opens a window on the tumultuous world of the early republic. What we see is in some respects lurid and shocking, but it also delivers a vividly intimate portrait of American life as the nation was coming into being.”[7]
Sweet was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2026 in the field of U.S. History.[8]
