Ernest Samuels

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Ernest Samuels (born May 19, 1903 in Chicago; died 1996) was an American biographer and lawyer. He received his J.D. in 1926, but switched to literature in 1930. Nevertheless he did legal work as well for much of the 1930s. He might be best known for his biography of Henry Adams in three volumes. For this work he received the Bancroft Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography^[1]

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