T.J. Stiles

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About me

Gender Male
Occupation Writer
Location San Francisco, CA, United States
Introduction I am the author of The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Biography and the 2009 National Book Award in Nonfiction, and Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War, winner of the Ambassador Book Award and the Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship. I also practice and teach traditional Shotokan karate-do, with the Japan Karate Association.