death_date death_place children birth_place subject nationality relatives name birth_date period spouse genre image article_title birth_name occupation
6 february 1989 greenwich , connecticut three daughters new york city middle , world war i ages , renaissance , american revolution , 1900 american maurice sr. '' -lrb- maternal grandfather -rrb- '' henry morgenthau , wertheim jr. '' -lrb- maternal uncle -rrb- '' robert m. morgenthau '' '' -lrb- cousin -rrb- '' jessica mathews '' -lrb- daughter -lrb- -rrb- '' father -rrb- '' henry morgenthau barbara w. tuchman 30 january 1912 1938 -- 1988 -lrb- writer -rrb- lester 1997 -rrb- '' r. tuchman '' -lrb- b. 1904 , d. history tuchman-portrait . jpg barbara w. tuchman
 barbara wertheim writer , journalist , historian
barbara w. tuchman

barbara wertheim tuchman -lrb- ; 1912-1989 -rrb- was an american historian and author .
she won the pulitzer prize twice , for `` the guns of august '' -lrb- 1963 -rrb- , a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of world war i , and `` stilwell and the american experience in china '' -lrb- 1972 -rrb- , a biography of general joseph stilwell .
tuchman focused on writing popular history .
