Joseph J. Ellis

Joseph Ellis is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Founding Brothers. His portrait of Thomas Jefferson, American Sphinx, won the National Book Award in the United States. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with his wife, Ellen, and their youngest son, Alex.

Books by Joseph J. Ellis

Founding Brothers

Joseph J. Ellis

Founding Brothers

is an illuminating, Pulitzer Prize-winning study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic: Adams, Burr, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and Washington. During the 1790s ...

His Excellency: George Washington

Joseph J. Ellis

A landmark biography that brings to life, in all his complexity, the most important and perhaps least understood figure in American history - George Washington.

In the pantheon of America's ...