William Taubman

Not to be confused with William Tubman.

William Chase Taubman (born November 13, 1941, in New York City) 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.

William Taubman
Taubman in 2018
Born	William Chase Taubman (1941-11-13) November 13, 1941 (age 83) New York City, U.S.
Spouse	Jane A. Taubman
Awards	National Book Critics Circle Award Pulitzer Prize for Biography (2004)
Academic background
Education	Bronx High School of Science
Alma mater	Harvard University (B.A.) Columbia University (M.A., Ph.D.)
Academic work
Discipline	Political science
Institutions	Amherst College
Notable works	Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (2003), Gorbachev: His Life and Times (2017)
Website	williamtaubmanbooks.com

Taubman with Pavel Palazhchenko, a former interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev

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.^[1]

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, was a professor of Russian, Emerita, at Amherst College.

Selected publications

External videos
Part One of Booknotes interview with Taubman on Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, April 20, 2003, C-SPAN
Part Two of Booknotes interview with Taubman, April 27, 2003, C-SPAN

• Gorbachev: His Life and Times (W. W. Norton & Company, 2017), ISBN 978-0-393-64701-3.
• Trump and Putin in Historical Perspective: How We Got into the New Cold War, Amherst College A talk by William Taubman, the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science, Emeritus (June 6, 2017)
• Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (W. W. Norton & Company, 2003), ISBN 0-393-05144-7.
• Moscow Spring with Jane Taubman (Summit Books, 1989), ISBN 0-671-67731-4.
• Stalin's American Policy: From Entente to Détente to Cold War (W W Norton & Company, 1982), ISBN 0-393-01406-1.
• Khrushchev on Khrushchev by Sergei Khrushchev, (editor/translator). (Boston: Little, Brown, 1990)