Horgan, Paul, 1903-1995

Horgan (1903-1995) was born in Buffalo, N.Y. and spent his youth in New Mexico. He attended the Eastman School of Music, 1923-26, where he studied voice and participated in operatic productions. After leaving the Eastman School he turned to a career in writing, publishing many fiction and non-fiction works, for which he won two Pulitzer prizes and a Bancroft Prize.

20th Century American Author.

Paul Horgan was born August 1903, in Buffalo, New York. His family moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1914. Horgan attended New Mexico Military Institute (NMMI), in Roswell, N.M. 1919-1923. Relocated to Rochester, N.Y. in 1923. In 1926 he returned to Roswell to become the librarian at NMMI and stayed there until 1942. Horgan's writing career took off between 1924-1925, when his first published poems appeared in poetry magazines. His short sotries, often about spiritual conflict, were first published in 1929. Thereafter, they appeared in a variety of magazines and were also published together as collections. Over the course of his writing career, Horgan produced seventeen novels, four volumes of short stories, five biographies, and a two volume history. He won the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1955 for his history of the Rio Grande entitled, The Great river, and again in 1975 for the biography, Lamy of Santa Fe.

Paul Horgan was a writer, known for both fiction and non-fiction set in the American southwest. Born in Buffalo, New York, his family moved to New Mexico in 1915, and Horgan came to embrace his new home. He was a prolific and popular writer of short stories, novels, poetry, essays, biographies, and histories, many set in the southwest, but unlike many regional writers his work reached a wider audience, winning for him the Harper Prize and two Pulitzer Prizes in history, among many others. He held numerous jobs in academia throughout his career, and had a long affiliation with Wesleyan University.

Paul Horgan was born August 8, 1903 in Buffalo, N.Y. He moved to Albuquerque with his family in 1915. In 1919 he enrolled at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell (NMMI). Upon graduation in 1923, he return to the East until he accepted the librarianship at NMMI in 1926. He served in the U.S. Army from 1942-1946, and was subsequently employed at Wesleyan University. He died in Middletown, CT on March 8, 1995. Horgan was the author of many novels, non-fiction books, short stories, and poems. He had been awarded the Pulitzer Prize of History twice: in 1955 for Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History and in 1975 for Lamy of Santa Fe .

American author.