The Pulitzer board, which awarded Wallace and Edwin G. Burrows its U.S. history prize for 1999, said their book was "as vast and varied as the city it chronicles."
Historian Mike Wallace, who died on July 5, undertook the gigantic task of telling, in more than 3,500 precise and vibrant pages, the story of New York. His editor at Oxford University Press remembers it. The post In Memory of Mike Wallace appeared first on Free Letters.