Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918) was celebrated for his multivolume History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, but it is his Pulitzer Prize–winning memoir for which he is best remembered. Posthumously published, The Education of Henry Adams was named the top English-language nonfiction book of the twentieth century. In it Adams struggles to come to terms with the violence of that century or, as he wrote, to pursue meaning in “a world that sensitive and timid natures could not regard without a shudder.”
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- The Aphorisms of Henry Adams, a nonfiction excerpt, in Stories of the Week: 2015–2016