William Taubman


William Chase Taubman is an American political scientist. Khrushchev: [The Man and His Era|His biography] of Nikita Khrushchev won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2004 and the National [Book Critics Circle Award] for Biography in 2003. He is currently Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science at Amherst College.

Personal life

Taubman is the son of Nora Stern, a teacher, and Howard Taubman, who was chief music critic and then chief theater critic for The New York Times in the 1950s and 60s. He is a graduate of the Bronx [High School of Science] and received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1962, an M.A. from Columbia University in 1965, a Certificate of the Russian Institute in 1965, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1969.
William Taubman is the brother of diplomatic journalist Philip Taubman.
His wife, Jane A. Taubman, was a professor of Russian, Emerita, at Amherst College.
Taubman was the recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim fellowship.

Selected publications

McNamara at War: A New History, with Philip Taubman, ISBN 978-1-324-00716-6Gorbachev: His Life and Times,.Khrushchev: The Man and His Era,.Moscow Spring with Jane Taubman,.Stalin's American Policy: From Entente to Détente to Cold War,.