Dumas Malone (January 10, 1892 – December 27, 1986) was an American historian, biographer, and editor noted for his six-volume biography on Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson and His Time, for which he received the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for history and his co-editorship of the twenty-volume Dictionary of American Biography. In 1983, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Early life and education Malone was born at Coldwater, Mississippi, on January 10, 1892, the son of clergyman John W. and suffragist schoolteacher, Lillian Kemp Malone. In 1910, he received his bachelor's degree from Emory College (Emory University). He was a member of Sigma Nu Fraternity. In 1916 he received his divinity degree from Yale University. Between 1917 and 1919 during the First World War, he became a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps. Following the war, he returned to Yale University where he obtained his master's (1921) and doctorate (1923) degrees. He won the John Addison Porter prize in 1923 for his dissertation, The Public Life of Thomas Cooper 1783–1839 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1926). The linguist and historian Kemp Malone is his older brother. He married Elizabeth Gifford in 1925, and they had two children. Career Malone served on the faculty of Yale University, Columbia University, and the University of Virginia, where he was the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History. He was a Director of the Harvard University Press and served as editor of the original Dictionary of American Biography in 1929. His first contribution to historical scholarship was a still authoritative biography of the American political commentator and educator Thomas Cooper (Yale University Press, 1926). He is best known for his six-volume biography of Thomas Jefferson, published between 1948 and 1981, for which he earned the 1975 Pulitzer Prize. Among the many contributions of this authoritative study was Malone's inclusion in each volume of a detailed timeline of Jefferson's activities and frequent travels in his life. Malone's volumes were widely praised for their lucid and graceful writing style, for their rigorous and thorough scholarship, and for their attention to Jefferson's evolving constitutional and political thought. The six volumes, originally published by Atlantic/Little, Brown, and republished by the University of Virginia Press in 2005, were: Jefferson the Virginian (1948) Jefferson and the Rights of Man (1951) Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty (1962) Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801–1805 (1970) Jefferson the President: Second Term, 1805–1809 (1974) The