Martin J. Sherwin
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Martin J. Sherwin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian. His scholarship mostly concerns nuclear proliferation.
Sherwin received his B.A. from Dartmouth College and his Ph.D. in history from University of California, Berkeley. He is the long-time Walter S. Dickson professor of English and American history at Tufts University.
He and co-author Kai Bird shared the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 2006, for their book on Robert Oppenheimer's life, titled American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Sherwin worked on the book for two decades before Bird, a writer (and not a historian), came on to collaborate in piecing all his research together. Sherwin also wrote A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and its Legacies, which won the Stuart L. Bernath Prize and the American History Book Prize.
Sherwin serves on the board of The Nation magazine, to which he is a regular contributor. While a professor at Princeton University, he taught and mentored Katrina vanden Heuvel, now editor-in-chief of The Nation.
He lives in Washington, D.C., and Boston with his wife, Susan. His daughter is a graduate of and a professor at Tufts.
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