John Wood Sweet
John Wood Sweet is an American historian, author, and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1] Sweet's book, The Sewing Girl's Tale (Holt, 2022), was a New York Times “Editors’ Choice,” the Journal of the American Revolution’s Book of the Year[2]—and won the Bancroft Prize,[3] the Parkman Prize,[4] the James H. Broussard Best Biography Prize,[5] and the Gotham Book Award.[6] “A masterpiece,” wrote Fergus M. Bordewich in the Wall Street Journal. “The Sewing Girl opens a window on the tumultuous world of the early republic. What we see is in some respects lurid and shocking, but it also delivers a vividly intimate portrait of American life as the nation was coming into being.”[7]
Sweet was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2026 in the field of U.S. History.[8]
References
- ↑ "John Wood Sweet". history.unc.edu. Retrieved April 20, 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "The 2022 Book-of-the-Year Award Winner". Journal of the American Revolution. 2022.
- ↑ "Winners of the 2023 Bancroft Prizes". Columbia University Libraries. March 8, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "The Francis Parkman Prize: 2023". Society of American Historians. 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (2023). "SHEAR Announces the Winners of Book, Dissertation, and Article Prizes". The Panorama, SHEAR.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Barron, James (April 24, 2023). "Writers Are Rewarded for Their Books About New York". The New York Times.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Bordewich, Fegus M. (July 22, 2022). "'The Sewing Girl's Tale' Review: An Assault in Old New York". The Wall Street Journal.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Introducing the 2026 Guggenheim Fellows". April 14, 2026.
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External links
- Department website: https://history.unc.edu/person/john-wood-sweet/
- Personal website: https://www.johnwoodsweet.com/