Garry Wills (born May 22, 1934) is an American author, journalist, and historian, specializing in American history, politics, and religion, especially the history of the Catholic Church. He won a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1993.
Wills has written over fifty books and, since 1973, has been a frequent reviewer for The New York Review of Books.[1] He became a faculty member of the history department at Northwestern University in 1980, where he is currently an Emeritus Professor of History.
Books in order of publication:
- Chesterton: Man and Mask (1961).
- Animals of the Bible (1962)
- Politics and Catholic Freedom (1964)
- Roman Culture: Weapons and the Man (1966).
- The Second Civil War: Arming for Armageddon (1968)
- Jack Ruby (1968).
- Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-made Man (1970, 1979).
- Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, and Radical Religion (1972).
- Values Americans Live By (1973).
- Inventing America: Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence (1978).
- Confessions of a Conservative (1979).
- At Button’s (1979).
- Explaining America: The Federalist (1981).
- The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power (1982).
- Lead Time: A Journalist’s Education (1983).
- Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment (1984).
- Reagan’s America: Innocents at Home (1987).
- Under God: Religion and American Politics (1990).
- Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America (1992).
- Certain Trumpets: The Call of Leaders (1994).
- Witches and Jesuits: Shakespeare’s Macbeth (1995).
- John Wayne’s America: The Politics of Celebrity (1997).
- Saint Augustine (1999).
- Saint Augustine’s Childhood (2001).
- Saint Augustine’s Memory (2002).
- Saint Augustine’s Sin (2003).
- Saint Augustine’s Conversion (2004).
- A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government (1999).
- Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit (2000).
- Venice: Lion City: The Religion of Empire (2001).
- Why I Am a Catholic (2002).
- Mr. Jefferson’s University (2002).
- James Madison (2002).
- Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power (2003).
- Henry Adams and the Making of America (2005).
- The Rosary: Prayer Comes Round (2005).
- What Jesus Meant (2006).
- What Paul Meant (2006).
- Bush’s Fringe Government (2006).
- Head and Heart: American Christianities (2007).
- What the Gospels Meant (2008).
- Bomb Power (2010).
- Outside Looking In: Adventures of an Observer (2010).
- Augustine’s ‘Confessions’: A Biography (2011).
- Verdi’s Shakespeare: Men of the Theater (2011).
- Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (2011).
- Font of Life: Ambrose, Augustine, and the Mystery of Baptism (2012).
- Why Priests? (2013).
- Making Make-Believe Real: Politics as Theater in Shakespeare’s Time (2014).
- The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis (March 2015).
- What The Qur’an Meant and Why It Matters (2017).
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