Sumner Chilton Powell
American historian (1924–1993)
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Sumner Chilton Powell (October 2, 1924 in Northampton, Massachusetts – July 8, 1993 in Colora, Maryland)[1][2] was an American historian and history teacher at the Choate School, a college-prep boarding school in Wallingford, Connecticut.
Sumner Chilton Powell | |
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| Born | October 2, 1924 |
| Died | July 8, 1993 (aged 68) Colora, Maryland, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Amherst College; Harvard University |
| Occupations | Historian; teacher |
| Known for | Pulitzer Prize–winning historian; author of Puritan Village |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for History (1964) |
He attended The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, earned a bachelor's degree from Amherst College in 1946, and from 1947 to 1952 was an active US Naval Officer attaining the rank of Lieutenant (jg), but remained a Naval Reserve Officer until 1961.[3] He earned a doctorate in history from Harvard University in 1956.
In 1957 he published From Mythical to Medieval Man. He won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for History for Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town (1963),[4] based on records on Sudbury, Massachusetts from 1638–1660, tracing every settler back to England.[5]
