McCullough, David Gaub (1933– )

US writer and television presenter specializing in American history. His books Truman (1992) and John Adams (2001; filmed 2008) both won Pulitzer Prizes for Biography. He was host of the television series Smithsonian World (1984–88) and American Experience (1988– ), and narrated the television documentary series The Civil War (1990).

McCullough was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He writes history as a narrative rather than as analysis. Many of his books have won awards, including The Great Bridge (1972) about the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870–1914 (1977), Mornings on Horseback (1981), about the early life of Theodore Roosevelt, and 1776, about the year of American independence.