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(1937-2021) Biographer, historian. Martin Sherwin was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Washington, District of Columbia.

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Martin Sherwin

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1937

BIRTH

Martin Jay Sherwin was born in Brooklyn, New York, on July 2, 1937.

1950

OTHER

Mr. Sherwin graduated from James Madison High School in Brooklyn, New York, in the 1950s.

2003

LITWORK

A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and its Legacies
Stanford University Press, Third Edition. Originally published in 1975
0804739579 / 9780804739573
Nonfiction. Winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Prize and the National Historical Society's American History Book Prize.

2005

LITWORK

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Knopf
0375412026 / 978-0375412028
Biography written by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. Winner of the Pulitzer for biography and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2006.

2020

LITWORK

Gambling With Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis
Knopf
0307266885 / 978-0307266880
Nonfiction.

2021

DEATH

Martin Sherwin died at his home in Washington, District of Columbia, on October 6, 2021.

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