T.J. Stiles won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, a rollicking account of the railroad magnate and philanthropist. He is also the author of the bestselling biography Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War. A member of the Society of American Historians, Stiles has published reviews and essays in The New York Times Book Review, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Washington Post, among many other periodicals. His sweeping new biography of the golden-curled cavalry commander posits a radically new image of the historically caricatured Civil War hero and Little Bighorn martyr.

Ellis Wachs Endowed Lecture