Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills is the author of more than 20 widely read books on American culture and politics including Nixon Agonistes, Lincoln at Gettysburg, Venice: Lion City and Why I Am a Catholic. His most recent work, Mr. Jefferson’s University, explores one of Thomas Jefferson’s proudest achievements, the University of Virginia.

Wills is an adjunct professor of history at Northwestern University. He has received the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, the Presidential Medal of the Endowment for the Humanities and two National Book Critics Circle Awards. Wills is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.