William Taubman


William Chase Taubman is an American political scientist. His biography of Nikita Khrushchev won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2004 and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 2003.
He is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1962, an M.A. from Columbia University in 1965, a Certificate of the Russian Institute in 1965, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1969.
He is currently Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science at Amherst College.
Taubman was the recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim fellowship.

Personal life

Taubman is the son of Nora Stern, a teacher, and Howard Taubman, who was chief music critic and then chief theater critic for The New York Times in the 1950s and 60s.
William Taubman is the brother of diplomatic journalist Philip Taubman.
His wife, Jane A. Taubman, is a professor of Russian, Emerita, at Amherst College.

Selected publications