ALAN TAYLOR

William Cooper’s Town

Born in Portland, Maine, Alan Taylor received his B.A. degree from Colby College in 1977 and his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1986. He has taught at Colby College, the College of William and Mary, Boston University, and the University of California at Davis, where he is Professor of History. He has been the recipient of Best Annual Article Prizes from American Quarterly (1986), New York History (1991), and the Journal of the Early Republic (1991), and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities/Institute of Early American History and Culture, NEH/American Antiquarian Society, the National Humanities Center, and the Huntington Library. He is author of Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820. William Cooper’s Town was the recipient of the Bancroft Prize for American History and the Pulitzer Prize.