birth_place birth_date notable_works article_title education name occupation alma_mater
washington , d.c. 13 october 1931 biographies ;d . & nbsp ; roosevelt and ulysses & nbsp -lrb- ; s. & nbsp ; grant among others -rrb- of franklin & nbsp jean edward smith
 columbia university -lrb- ph.d. , 1964 -rrb- jean edward smith biographer , academic princeton university -lrb- a.b. , 1954 -rrb-
jean edward smith

jean edward smith -lrb- born october 13 , 1932 -rrb- is a biographer and the john marshall professor of political science at marshall university .
he is also professor emeritus at the university of toronto after having served as professor of political economy there for thirty-five years .
smith is also on the faculty of the master of american history and government program at ashland university .
the winner of the 2008 francis parkman prize and the 2002 finalist for the pulitzer prize for biography or autobiography smith 's been called `` today 's foremost biographer of formidable figures in american history . ''
