Society of American Historians. In 2011, Stiles received a Guggenheim Fellowship. From 2004 to 2005, Stiles held the Gilder Lehrman Fellowship in American History at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He has also received a Distinguished Alumni Award from Carleton College. In 2019, Stiles received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member Rick Atkinson. Other writings, appearances, and professional positions Stiles has published numerous reviews and essays. He has written for the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Salon.com, The Atlantic online, and the New York Observer. He is a popular public speaker and has appeared on several television documentaries. He served as a consultant and on-screen interview subject in the PBS series The American Experience, for the films Jesse James and Grand Central, among other programs. He also taught nonfiction creative writing at Columbia University, and belonged to the faculty of the 2014 World Economic Forum annual meetings. He is a former member of the San Francisco Writer's Grotto. Currently, Stiles serves on the executive council of the Authors Guild and on the advisory council of the Biographers International Organization. Personal life Stiles practices and teaches Japanese Shotokan karate-do, and holds a 5th Dan from the Japan Karate Association. A resident of New York City for twenty years, he now lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, son, and daughter. References External links National Book Award citation Pulitzer Prize Citation Living people American biographers Columbia University alumni National Book Award winners Date of birth missing (living people) Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners Pulitzer Prize for History winners 1964 births People from Benton County, Minnesota Carleton College alumni American male karateka Shotokan practitioners