Michael O'Brien (historian)
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Michael O'Brien was born in Plymouth, and was educated at Devonport High School in the city. He was an undergraduate and research student at Trinity Hall, Cambridge in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and studied for a further postgraduate degree at Vanderbilt University. He then taught at University of Michigan, University of Arkansas, Miami University. He was a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge from 2002 until his death in 2015.
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Awards
- Woodward-Franklin Award for the Writing of Southern History, from the Fellowship of Southern Writers (2013)
- Fellow of the British Academy (2008).
- 2005 Merle Curti Award
- Bancroft Prize, Columbia University
- Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award, Southern Historical Association
- C. Hugh Holman Award, Society for the Study of Southern Literature
- American Studies Network Book Prize
- Nominated Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History
- Nominated Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography
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