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Line 1: {{short description\|American historian}} '''Sumner Chilton Powell''' (1924–1993) was a historian and teacher of history at the [[Choate School]]. He was a 1946 graduate of [[Amherst College]] and received a doctorate in History from from [[Harvard University]] in 1956. His book ''Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town'' received the [[Pulitzer Prize for History]] in 1964. '''Sumner Chilton Powell''' (October 2, 1924 in [[Northampton, Massachusetts]] – July 8, 1993 in [[Colora, Maryland]])<ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&q=sumner+chilton+powell+born&pg=PA303\|title=Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners\|first1=Elizabeth A.\|last1=Brennan\|first2=Elizabeth C.\|last2=Clarage\|date=September 2, 1999\|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group\|isbn=9781573561112\|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007.</ref> was an American historian and history teacher at the [[Choate School]], a college-prep [[boarding school]] in [[Wallingford, Connecticut]]. He attended [[The Taft School]] in [[Watertown, Connecticut]], earned a bachelor's degree from [[Amherst College]] in 1946, and from 1947 to 1952 was an active US Naval Officer attaining the rank of Lieutenant (jg), but remained a Naval Reserve Officer until 1961.<ref>United States Military Registers, 1902–1985. Salem, Oregon: Oregon State Library.</ref> He earned a doctorate in history from [[Harvard University]] in 1956. In 1957 he published ''From Mythical to Medieval Man''. He won the 1964 [[Pulitzer Prize for History]] for ''[[Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town]]'' (1963),<ref>[http://pulitzer.org/bycat/History "History"]. In the mid-1960 he taught at Iona College, New Rochelle, New York. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-25.</ref> based on records on [[Sudbury, Massachusetts]] from 1638–1660, tracing every settler back to England.<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/06/archives/pulitzer-winner-is-seeking-a-job-powell-hopes-history-prize-will.html\|title=PULITZER WINNER IS SEEKING A JOB; Powell Hopes History Prize Will Lead to Editor's Post\|newspaper=The New York Times\|date=May 6, 1964}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * {{LCAuth\|no2003042705\|Sumner Chilton Powell\|2\|}} {{PulitzerPrize HistoryAuthors 1951–1975}} {{Authority control}} ~~{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. -->~~ ~~\| NAME = Powell~~ {{DEFAULTSORT:Powell, Sumner Chilton}}▼ ~~\| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =~~ ~~\| SHORT DESCRIPTION =~~ ~~\| DATE OF BIRTH = 1924~~ ~~\| PLACE OF BIRTH =~~ ~~\| DATE OF DEATH = 1993~~ ~~\| PLACE OF DEATH =~~ }} ▲{{DEFAULTSORT:Powell}} [[Category:1924 births]] [[Category:1993 deaths]] [[Category:~~American~~Historians ~~historians~~of New England]] [[Category:~~Historians~~Pulitzer ofPrize ~~the~~for ~~United~~History ~~States~~winners]] [[Category:Taft School alumni]] [[Category:Amherst College alumni]] [[Category:Harvard University alumni]] [[Category:20th-century American historians]] [[Category:20th-century American male writers]] [[Category:American male non-fiction writers]]