With his white hair and Irish sweaters, reedy voice and reserved manner, his stately appearances on PBS , even the Cape Cod shack where he pecked out with four fingers every one of his books , his monuments, on a 1941 Royal typewriter he had purchased, secondhand, in 1965, David McCullough was the very picture of a historian. The genteel Pittsburgh native died at age 89 in 2022 as one of the bestselling historians and biographers in American history , recipient of 56 honorary degrees, the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award — twice each — and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, along with 120 other honors.

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