Malone, Dumas (1892–1986)

US historian. He was editor (1929–31) and editor-in-chief (1931–36) of the Dictionary of American Biography, and editor-in-chief of Harvard University Press (1936–43). The fifth volume of his great six-volume work, Jefferson and His Time (1948–81), received the Pulitzer Prize in 1975. He taught at Columbia University (1945–59) and the University of Virginia (1959–62) before retiring to concentrate on his writing. Malone was born in Coldwater, Mississippi. He received his doctorate from Yale University in 1923 and began his career teaching there.