Jean Strouse

Jean Strouse is the Sue Ann and John Weinberg Director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library. She is the author of Morgan, American Financier (1999) and Alice James, A Biography (1980), which won the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy. Her essays and reviews have appeared in many publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Newsweek, and The Washington Post. She has recently served as President of the Society of American Historians (2001–2002) and as a consultant (oral historian) to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (2000–2002). She is a Fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.