Rick Atkinson

Quick Facts

Full Name	Rick Atkinson
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Nov 16, 1952(1952-11-16)
Age	72
Birthplace	Munich
Country	Germany
Horoscope	Scorpio

Rick Atkinson Biography

Rick Atkinson is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on November 16, 1952 in Munich, Germany. Pulitzer Prize- winning journalist and author from America.

An Army at Dawn, The War in North Africa 1942-1943, his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, An Army at Dawn, The War In North Africa 1942-1943, described His 2002 Pulitzer Prize winning book, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, detailed Dwight Eisenhower‘s efforts during the allied invasion of North Africa during World War II.’s efforts during the allied invasions of North Africa during World War II.

Atkinson was born in Munich to Margaret (née Howe) and Larry Atkinson, who was a U.S. Army officer. Turning down an appointment to West Point, he instead attended East Carolina University on a full scholarship, graduating with a bachelor of arts degree in English in 1974. He received a master of arts degree in English language and literature from the University of Chicago in 1975.

While visiting his parents for Christmas at Fort Riley, Kansas, in 1975, Atkinson found a job as a newspaper reporter for The Morning Sun in Pittsburg, Kansas, covering crime, local government, and other topics in southeast Kansas, an area known as “the Little Balkans” for its ethnic diversity and fractious politics. In April 1977, he joined the staff of The Kansas City Times, working nights in suburban Johnson County, Kansas, before moving to the city desk and eventually serving as a national reporter; in 1981, he joined the newspaper’s bureau in Washington, D.C. He won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 1982 for a “body of work” that included a series about the West Point class of 1966, which lost more men in Vietnam than any other Military Academy class. He also contributed to the newspaper’s coverage of the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse in Kansas City, Missouri, for which the paper’s staff in 1982 was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for local spot news reporting.

He was married to Jane Ann Chestnut in 1979 and had two children.

Rick Atkinson Net Worth

Rick Atkinson is one of the richest Journalist from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rick Atkinson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was raised on military bases all over the globe and has spent time in Georgia and Idaho as well as California and Hawaii.

While working for The Kansas City Times, he won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting 1982.

Lawrence Rush “Rick” Atkinson IV (born November 16, 1952) is an American author, most recently of The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777, the first volume in the Revolution Trilogy. He has won Pulitzer Prizes in history and journalism.

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His Liberation Trilogy, a history of the American role in the liberation of Europe in World War II, concluded with the publication of The Guns at Last Light in May 2013. In 2010, he received the $100,000 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. In 2019, Atkinson was named a Vincent J. Dooley Distinguished Fellow by the Georgia Historical Society, an honor that recognizes national leaders in the field of history as both writers and educators whose research has enhanced or changed the way the public understands the past.

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Atkinson’s first book, written while on leave from the Post, was The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point’s Class of 1966. A 1989 review in Time magazine called it “brilliant history”, and Business Week reviewer Dave Griffiths called it “the best book out of Vietnam to date”. Author James Salter, reviewing the book for The Washington Post Book World, wrote, “Enormously rich in detail and written with a novelist’s brilliance, the pages literally hurry before one.” In 1993, Atkinson wrote Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War. In a review, The Wall Street Journal wrote, “No one could have been better prepared to write a book on Desert Storm, and Atkinson’s Crusade does full justice to the opportunity.”

What book did Rick Atkinson win the Pulitzer Prize for?

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa , 1942-1943, by Rick Atkinson (Henry Holt and Company) Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger (left) presents Rick Atkinson with the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in History.

Who wrote the book The British are coming?

Rick Atkinson

What war was the British are coming?

“The British Are Coming” is the first volume in a planned trilogy on the American Revolution that will match his Liberation Trilogy on World War II. It covers all the major battles and skirmishes from the spring of 1775 to the winter of 1776-77.

Why are they called Minutemen?

Minutemen were members of the organized New England colonial militia companies trained in weaponry, tactics, and military strategies, comprising the American colonial partisan militia during the American Revolutionary War. They were known for being ready at a minute’s notice , hence the name.

What did Paul Revere actually say?

Paul Revere was a silversmith in colonial Boston. He’s famous for his midnight ride to warn colonists about the British troops who were poised to attack. He is thought to have shouted along the way “ The British are coming, the British are coming!” though the anecdotal story has no real basis in history.