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Dumas Malone

Dumas Malone (DEW-mah;[1] January 10, 1892 – December 27, 1986) was an American historian, minister,[2] and biographer. A professor by occupation, Malone spent the majority of his career teaching at the University of Virginia (UVA), where he served as the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History.[3][4]

Dumas Malone
Born10 January 1892
Died27 December 1986 (aged 94)
Spouse
Elizabeth Gifford
(m. 1925)
RelativesKemp Malone (brother)
AwardsPulitzer Prize for History (1975)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1983)
Academic background
EducationEmory College (BA)
Yale University (BDiv, MA, PhD)
ThesisThe Public Life of Thomas Cooper, 1783–1839 (1923)
Doctoral advisorAllen Johnson
Academic work
DisciplineHistoriography
InstitutionsYale University
University of Virginia
Harvard University
Columbia University
Notable worksJefferson and His Time
Signature

Malone was best known for his six-volume biography, Jefferson and His Time, for which he received the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for History. Completed in 1981, the series became Malone's defining work and is considered the foremost authoritative biography of Thomas Jefferson.[5][6] Before beginning a lifelong career as a biographer, he was editor-in-chief of the twenty-volume Dictionary of American Biography and the third director of the Harvard University Press. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Early life and education edit

Upbringing edit

Malone was born in Coldwater, Mississippi, on January 10, 1892, to clergyman John W. Malone (1856–1930) and suffragist schoolteacher Lillian Kemp.[7][note 1] He was raised in a poor, religious household from the Deep South and his grandfather was a Confederate veteran who served in the American Civil War.[9][8] His mother and father were educators who recognized the value of an intellectual upbringing; his mother fostered his early disposition for reading, and his father served as an academic at various educational institutions.[6][8] After Malone's birth, the family moved to Oxford, Mississippi, where John Malone served as president of the Woman's College of Oxford, later becoming a minister in Brunswick, Georgia. In 1902, Malone's father became the president of Andrew College.[9]

In 1906, Malone matriculated at Emory College (now Emory University) at the age of 14,[10] receiving his Bachelor of Arts as the youngest member of the class of 1910.[6][7] His education at Emory consisted primarily of classical courses supplemented by Latin and Greek literature, the latter of which he was influenced by the classicist Charles Peppler; Malone later reflected of Peppler's class, "If I am something of a classicist in spirit, that course is one of the reasons for it." He also took great inspiration from the economist Edgar H. Johnson, the instructor of the college's only history course, whose teaching Malone credited with leaving "an abiding impression".[11]

Despite doing well in the university's classics courses, Malone later recalled being "not a particularly good student", owing his youth and immaturity as reasons for having been unprepared in college.[12] He played center for the class football team and was a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity,[13][14] though otherwise graduated from the college relatively undistinguished.[6] Regardless, he later fondly remembered Emory as a "modest home of humane learning."[6] When the college inducted him into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society in 1930, Malone remarked, "That was lucky for me. I am sure they did not pay much attention to my old undergraduate record. I was too busy exploring life to do full justice to my studies."[15]

 
Malone as a young professor of mathematics at Andrew College, pictured in a 1912 edition of The Atlanta Georgian

Ministry and Yale edit

Malone initially sought to study religion and enter the ministry upon graduating.[8][16] He spent several years as a teacher in small, local schools; at Andrew College, he lectured on topics including mathematics, history, and the Bible.[17] Finding a passion for teaching, he briefly taught biblical literature as an adjunct professor[18] at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, where two of his sisters had been educated.[19]

After spending a year at Vanderbilt University, Malone enrolled in Yale Divinity School where he excelled academically, obtaining a Fogg scholarship[note 2] for his first semester,[20] and earning a Bachelor of Divinity in 1916.[16] He had found his time at the university intellectually liberating, acquiring a passion for writing and abandoning his pursuit of theology in order to study history.[21][22] Malone's studies were abruptly interrupted by World War I. He left Yale in 1917 to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps after temporarily training as part of the Army YMCA at Camp Wheeler, becoming a Second lieutenant after graduating from Parris Island.[23] However, the war ended before he saw active combat and he was discharged in January 1919.[24] Malone then returned to Yale to obtain a doctorate in history. Later that same year, he was appointed as an instructor of history and began teaching a course in American history for undergraduates.[25]

In 1921, Malone received his master's degree and, in 1923, earned his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in history.[26] His dissertation, "The Public Life of Thomas Cooper", was awarded the John Addison Porter Prize; it had been supervised by the historian Allen Johnson, who had also been the one to recommend the topic to him.[27][28] The thesis would later be used as the basis for Malone's first book, also titled The Public Life of Thomas Cooper, published in 1926.[29] Following the completion of his doctorate, Malone was persuaded to join the faculty of the University of Virginia by its president, Edwin Alderman, during an interview at the American Historical Association and did so that same year.[30][31]

Career edit

Virginia and the DAB edit

 
The Alderman Library at the University of Virginia, where Malone's office was located on the top floor for more than 25 years[32]

In the fall of 1923, Malone assumed a position as an associate professor of history at the University of Virginia;[33] his office was located at the top floor of the Alderman Library, where it would remain for some decades.[32] The university had been relatively small at the time, and the whole of the history faculty consisted of just Malone and Richard Heath Dabney, the father of Virginius Dabney, upon his arrival.[32] Dabney had been encumbered with the entirety of the history curriculum which spanned from ancient to modern. Malone undertook the courses in European and American history, giving up the courses in European history upon the arrival of Stringfellow Barr and thereafter introduced new courses in colonial history and more contemporary American history.[28]

It was during his time at the University of Virginia that Malone began an interest in the life of Thomas Jefferson, the university's founder. In his first year, he had already authored a 14-page summary of Jefferson's life for the university's Extension Series in March 1924.[34][note 3] Despite doubts by Allen Johnson, his former mentor at Yale, and calls for caution by other scholars, Malone resolved to write a voluminous biography on Jefferson by the fall of 1926.[33][35] The next year, he traveled to France with his newly-wed wife, Elizabeth Gifford (1898–1992), on a Sterling Traveling Fellowship to do more extensive research which formed the basis of an article entitled "Polly Jefferson and Her Father"[36] published in the January 1931 edition of the Virginia Quarterly Review.[28]

Malone's tenure at Virginia suddenly ended when Allen Johnson extended an offer for him to take the co-editorship[37] of the monumental[38] Dictionary of American Biography (DAB) in 1929. He mulled extensively over the choice, consulting friends such as Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. and President Edwin Alderman as to whether to accept the position.[39] After reluctantly choosing to leave the University of Virginia, Malone moved with his wife to Washington, D.C.,[38] to assist Johnson with the dictionary, a choice which he called "the most painful decision I ever made."[40] In January 1931, Johnson was unexpectedly killed in an automobile accident that made headlines in The New York Times and The Washington Post; his death made Malone the editor-in-chief[41] of the DAB,[21] a capacity which Malone continued to serve in until 1936.[42] When the dictionary was finally completed—nearly a decade later—in 1942, it contained twenty volumes with the aid of more than 2,000 fellow biographers under his guidance.[43]

Malone found the seven years he had spent editing the DAB as being dull and tedious, stating, upon leaving, that he would never edit again. Nevertheless, he remembered the experience as being "invaluable to me as a writer because of what they taught me about precision and clarity," and would eventually return to editing later in his career.[44] Malone's work in writing articles for the dictionary provided the foundation for his future biography on Jefferson and nurtured his interest for biographing.[45]

Harvard University Press edit

 
Malone pictured in the June 12, 1938, edition of the Richmond Times-Dispatch during his tenure as director of the Harvard University Press

At the recommendation of Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe,[46] Malone was suggested as a possible candidate to serve as the third director of the Harvard University Press (HUP). Harvard President James B. Conant, persuaded by the positive appraisals of Malone from those he consulted, extended an offer for him to take the position in December 1935.[47] Malone accepted—provided he be able to finish his time on the DAB—and was formally appointed both as editor-in-chief[7][48] (director)[49] on December 1, 1937, and as board chairman,[50] following a vote by the Harvard Corporation. He moved with his family to Lincoln, Massachusetts.[51]

In January of the following year, Malone described his new vision for the Press at a banquet dinner, advocating for what he called "scholarship plus"—the publication of works intended for the general public, as opposed to pieces meant exclusively for scholars.[52][53] Ordered by Conant to "start from scratch," Malone instituted a number of ambitious changes which were among the most significant reforms in the Press' history: the leadership of the Printing Office was terminated, a new editorial staff was established to manage a more authoritative Press,[54] and the old members of the Harvard Corporation resigned, giving way to the appointment of a number of prominent scholars. Conant also believed it appropriate for Malone to possess an academic title at the university and offered to name him as a professor of history, though Malone declined the post.[55]

Malone viewed the role of the Harvard University Press as primarily an academic institution as opposed to a business.[56] His administration of the Press achieved significant success, garnering wide recognition from the publication of several notable works—including two Pulitzer Prize-winners—and it saw a doubling[57] in sales. His aspiration of opening up the Press to the general public fueled a reputation for producing important publications. In May 1941, Conant congratulated him, saying, "The general history of the Press for the past year is certainly one of which you may well be proud [...] Keep it up!"[58] As the war continued, however, the Press' margins became strained by an increasing sales deficit,[59] and the relationship between Malone and the university administration began to deteriorate over serious financial issues in the midst of World War II.[60] William Henry Claflin Jr., Harvard's treasurer, enacted a series of cost-cutting measures which sought to limit the affairs of the HUP to be subordinate to a "strict economy;" in response, Malone appealed to university officials who, in turn, drafted a memorandum reaffirming the HUP's independence.[61]

With a stagnant audience for academic works and student enrollment waning during the war, Malone recalled his time as director to be "basically a lame-duck leader."[62] Mounting financial and administrative quandaries complicated his wartime directorship and diminished its reputation. When news reached Conant of a roughly $26,000 deficit the Press had accumulated during the 1942 fiscal year, his good relationship with it ended promptly.[63] In January 1943, Malone's salary and duties were reduced; in April, a majority of officials doubted his future leadership in a vote of no-confidence. Following this rapid decline, Malone presented his letter of resignation on July 17, writing that "the major criteria by which my work is judged differ materially from those applied to the academic departments of the University."[64] The Harvard Corporation accepted his request, and, in April 1943, Malone formally resigned his position as director in order to return to Virginia and begin work on his biography of Jefferson. He and his family moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, in the summer of that same year.[8][64]

Return to Virginia edit

Having been relieved from his duties at Harvard, Malone dedicated his time to writing the first volume of his Jefferson biography in earnest upon returning to Virginia in 1943.[65] Prior to his resignation as director, his ambition to write the comprehensive biography was secured on June 1, 1938, by means of a signed contract.[66] Roger Scaife, the managing editor of Little, Brown and Company, presented the settlement for a multi-volume biography of Thomas Jefferson on March 22, 1938. Malone's personal finances, however, remained burdened after years of amassing debt despite the contract's generous payment and royalties. In early 1944, the historian Douglas Southall Freeman recommended that Malone be supplemented by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.[67] Since Malone was then unaffiliated with any institution and thus unable to satisfy the requirements for the grant, UVA President John Lloyd Newcomb and the university's librarian, Harry Clemons, arranged for him to be given an honorary position so as to be affiliated with the University of Virginia.[68] With the requirements satisfied, the Rockefeller Foundation granted a sum of $21,000 in order to fund the biography in May 1944.[69]

 
Jefferson the Virginian depicted with Samuel Chamberlain's Springtime in Virginia, from the April 25, 1948, edition of the Richmond Times-Dispatch

In the winter of 1943 and 1944, Malone was selected to be the "chief historian" of a short-lived secret committee of historians stationed at the Pentagon tasked with advising bombing policy. In 1945, John A. Krout, chairman of the History Department at Columbia University, extended an offer for him to be appointed as a professor of history at the university.[70] Malone was at first reluctant to accept the position as it would disrupt his work on the first volume of his Jefferson biography, but accepted when the Rockefeller Foundation mended the terms of his agreement to fit a part-time teaching post. During his time teaching at Columbia, he would develop a friendship with Krout and Allan Nevins.[71]

In 1947, Malone finished his first volume, Jefferson the Virginian, and published the work on Jefferson's birthday the next year.[72] The volume achieved acclaim by scholars, and its release was well received by audiences.[73][74][75] According to one review by historian Merle Curti writing in the Chicago Tribune, "The narrative, and this is primarily a narrative rather than an interpretive [biography], is lucid and, in places, vivid. But it is for the most part sober and straightforward. Thus 'Jefferson the Virginian' lacks the flashy, dramatic, picturesque quality which best-sellers in the [biographical] field generally have...[Although] Professor Malone makes occasional interpretations, he has tried to let the facts he has selected speak for themselves."[76] In anticipation of the coming series, historian Thomas D. Clark wrote in a similar appraisal, "This first volume is the beginning of a biographical series of major importance which will bring Jefferson to a grateful reading public."[77]

Legacy and honors edit

Those who follow trends in history and biography hear in Dumas Malone the voice of a scholar whose exacting standards our age has too little patience, one who rejects easy explanations and facile judgements. [He] at once shrinks from, and rises above, the fierce and superficial certainties of our age.

Edwin M. Yoder Jr.[78]

Malone was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1936.[79] The following year, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters by Dartmouth College and the University of Rochester.[80][81] In 1951 and 1958, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[82] In 1972, he was awarded Yale University's Wilbur L. Cross Medal[83][84] and the John F. Kennedy Medal of the Massachusetts Historical Society.[85] In 1975, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History—the oldest person to receive the award at the time.[86][87] In 1982, he was awarded The Award for Distinguished Service to the Humanities of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.[88]

In 1983, President Ronald Reagan awarded Malone the Presidential Medal of Freedom.[89] Malone was a member of the Virginia Historical Society.[21] The trustees of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation established the Dumas Malone Graduate Research Fellowship at the University of Virginia in his honor, allotting funds to support the research of "outstanding, advanced graduate students."[90]

When Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Charlottesville, Virginia, as part of her 1976 tour of the United States, Governor Mills Godwin gifted her the first five volumes of Jefferson and His Time—the sixth volume, The Sage of Monticello, had not yet been completed.[8]

Malone's volumes concluded that it was impossible for Jefferson to have had a relationship with Sally Hemings.[91]

Malone also published a set of lectures, Thomas Jefferson as Political Leader (1963), with the University of California Press.

Personal life and death edit

 
Malone's gravestone at the University of Virginia Cemetery in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Malone married Elizabeth Gifford in 1925, with whom he would have two children.[7] He died on December 27, 1986, at his home in Charlottesville.[6] According to the University of Virginia, the cause had been a "brief illness."[92] He is buried at the University of Virginia Cemetery and Columbarium.

Selected publications edit

  • Malone, Dumas (1923). The Public Life of Thomas Cooper, 1783–1839 (Dissertation). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0404591175.

Jefferson and His Time edit

Footnotes edit

  1. ^ Malone was the second of seven children.[8]
  2. ^ Awarded based on the highest grade in all subjects.[20]
  3. ^ Malone later recalled the work as being largely erroneous: "[the outline] was certainly no contribution to scholarship: in fact it contained errors that I afterwards found embarrassing. But it represented my first effort to view [Jefferson's] prodigious life as a whole and marked no inconsiderable increase in my own knowledge of it."[34]

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Scholarly sources edit

Books edit

Journals edit

  • Powell, J.H. (1953). "Book Review: Jefferson and the Rights of Man". The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography: 101–103.
  • Peterson, Merrill D. (Winter 1982). "Dumas Malone: The Completion of a Monument". The Virginia Quarterly Review. 58 (1): 26–31. JSTOR 26437086.
  • "Dumas Malone: 1892-1986". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 95 (2): 243–244. April 1987. JSTOR 4248949.
  • Peterson, Merril D. (April 1988). "Dumas Malone: An Appreciation". The William and Mary Quarterly. 45 (2): 237–252. doi:10.2307/1922326. JSTOR 1922326.
  • Shuffelton, Frank (Fall 1995). "Being Definitive: Jefferson Biography Under The Shadow of Dumas Malone". Biography. University of Hawai'i Press. 18 (4): 291–304. doi:10.1353/bio.2010.0187. S2CID 162257781.

Further reading edit

  • Robert M. S. McDonald, ed. Thomas Jefferson's Lives: Biographers and the Battle for History (University of Virginia Press, 2019) pp. 219–243 online

External links edit

  • Works by or about Dumas Malone at Internet Archive
  • Page at NNDB
  • Circular letter from Encyclopedia of the Negro, inc. to Dumas Malone, September 13, 1938
  • 1939 Harvard University Press Director Dr. Dumas Malone Press Photo
  • Malone, Dumas - Rockefeller Archives
  • Letter from Anson Phelps Stokes to Dumas Malone, October 20, 1937
  • "The Scholar’s Way: Then and Now" by Dumas Malone

dumas, malone, january, 1892, december, 1986, american, historian, minister, biographer, professor, occupation, malone, spent, majority, career, teaching, university, virginia, where, served, thomas, jefferson, foundation, professor, history, born10, january, . Dumas Malone DEW mah 1 January 10 1892 December 27 1986 was an American historian minister 2 and biographer A professor by occupation Malone spent the majority of his career teaching at the University of Virginia UVA where he served as the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History 3 4 Dumas MaloneBorn10 January 1892Coldwater Mississippi U S Died27 December 1986 aged 94 Charlottesville Virginia U S SpouseElizabeth Gifford m 1925 wbr RelativesKemp Malone brother AwardsPulitzer Prize for History 1975 Presidential Medal of Freedom 1983 Academic backgroundEducationEmory College BA Yale University BDiv MA PhD ThesisThe Public Life of Thomas Cooper 1783 1839 1923 Doctoral advisorAllen JohnsonAcademic workDisciplineHistoriographyInstitutionsYale UniversityUniversity of VirginiaHarvard UniversityColumbia UniversityNotable worksJefferson and His TimeSignatureMalone was best known for his six volume biography Jefferson and His Time for which he received the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for History Completed in 1981 the series became Malone s defining work and is considered the foremost authoritative biography of Thomas Jefferson 5 6 Before beginning a lifelong career as a biographer he was editor in chief of the twenty volume Dictionary of American Biography and the third director of the Harvard University Press In 1983 President Ronald Reagan awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom Contents 1 Early life and education 1 1 Upbringing 1 2 Ministry and Yale 2 Career 2 1 Virginia and the DAB 2 2 Harvard University Press 2 3 Return to Virginia 3 Legacy and honors 4 Personal life and death 5 Selected publications 5 1 Jefferson and His Time 6 Footnotes 7 References 7 1 Scholarly sources 7 1 1 Books 7 1 2 Journals 8 Further reading 9 External linksEarly life and education editUpbringing edit Malone was born in Coldwater Mississippi on January 10 1892 to clergyman John W Malone 1856 1930 and suffragist schoolteacher Lillian Kemp 7 note 1 He was raised in a poor religious household from the Deep South and his grandfather was a Confederate veteran who served in the American Civil War 9 8 His mother and father were educators who recognized the value of an intellectual upbringing his mother fostered his early disposition for reading and his father served as an academic at various educational institutions 6 8 After Malone s birth the family moved to Oxford Mississippi where John Malone served as president of the Woman s College of Oxford later becoming a minister in Brunswick Georgia In 1902 Malone s father became the president of Andrew College 9 In 1906 Malone matriculated at Emory College now Emory University at the age of 14 10 receiving his Bachelor of Arts as the youngest member of the class of 1910 6 7 His education at Emory consisted primarily of classical courses supplemented by Latin and Greek literature the latter of which he was influenced by the classicist Charles Peppler Malone later reflected of Peppler s class If I am something of a classicist in spirit that course is one of the reasons for it He also took great inspiration from the economist Edgar H Johnson the instructor of the college s only history course whose teaching Malone credited with leaving an abiding impression 11 Despite doing well in the university s classics courses Malone later recalled being not a particularly good student owing his youth and immaturity as reasons for having been unprepared in college 12 He played center for the class football team and was a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity 13 14 though otherwise graduated from the college relatively undistinguished 6 Regardless he later fondly remembered Emory as a modest home of humane learning 6 When the college inducted him into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society in 1930 Malone remarked That was lucky for me I am sure they did not pay much attention to my old undergraduate record I was too busy exploring life to do full justice to my studies 15 nbsp Malone as a young professor of mathematics at Andrew College pictured in a 1912 edition of The Atlanta GeorgianMinistry and Yale edit Malone initially sought to study religion and enter the ministry upon graduating 8 16 He spent several years as a teacher in small local schools at Andrew College he lectured on topics including mathematics history and the Bible 17 Finding a passion for teaching he briefly taught biblical literature as an adjunct professor 18 at Randolph Macon Woman s College where two of his sisters had been educated 19 After spending a year at Vanderbilt University Malone enrolled in Yale Divinity School where he excelled academically obtaining a Fogg scholarship note 2 for his first semester 20 and earning a Bachelor of Divinity in 1916 16 He had found his time at the university intellectually liberating acquiring a passion for writing and abandoning his pursuit of theology in order to study history 21 22 Malone s studies were abruptly interrupted by World War I He left Yale in 1917 to enlist in the U S Marine Corps after temporarily training as part of the Army YMCA at Camp Wheeler becoming a Second lieutenant after graduating from Parris Island 23 However the war ended before he saw active combat and he was discharged in January 1919 24 Malone then returned to Yale to obtain a doctorate in history Later that same year he was appointed as an instructor of history and began teaching a course in American history for undergraduates 25 In 1921 Malone received his master s degree and in 1923 earned his Doctor of Philosophy PhD in history 26 His dissertation The Public Life of Thomas Cooper was awarded the John Addison Porter Prize it had been supervised by the historian Allen Johnson who had also been the one to recommend the topic to him 27 28 The thesis would later be used as the basis for Malone s first book also titled The Public Life of Thomas Cooper published in 1926 29 Following the completion of his doctorate Malone was persuaded to join the faculty of the University of Virginia by its president Edwin Alderman during an interview at the American Historical Association and did so that same year 30 31 Career editVirginia and the DAB edit nbsp The Alderman Library at the University of Virginia where Malone s office was located on the top floor for more than 25 years 32 In the fall of 1923 Malone assumed a position as an associate professor of history at the University of Virginia 33 his office was located at the top floor of the Alderman Library where it would remain for some decades 32 The university had been relatively small at the time and the whole of the history faculty consisted of just Malone and Richard Heath Dabney the father of Virginius Dabney upon his arrival 32 Dabney had been encumbered with the entirety of the history curriculum which spanned from ancient to modern Malone undertook the courses in European and American history giving up the courses in European history upon the arrival of Stringfellow Barr and thereafter introduced new courses in colonial history and more contemporary American history 28 It was during his time at the University of Virginia that Malone began an interest in the life of Thomas Jefferson the university s founder In his first year he had already authored a 14 page summary of Jefferson s life for the university s Extension Series in March 1924 34 note 3 Despite doubts by Allen Johnson his former mentor at Yale and calls for caution by other scholars Malone resolved to write a voluminous biography on Jefferson by the fall of 1926 33 35 The next year he traveled to France with his newly wed wife Elizabeth Gifford 1898 1992 on a Sterling Traveling Fellowship to do more extensive research which formed the basis of an article entitled Polly Jefferson and Her Father 36 published in the January 1931 edition of the Virginia Quarterly Review 28 Malone s tenure at Virginia suddenly ended when Allen Johnson extended an offer for him to take the co editorship 37 of the monumental 38 Dictionary of American Biography DAB in 1929 He mulled extensively over the choice consulting friends such as Arthur M Schlesinger Sr and President Edwin Alderman as to whether to accept the position 39 After reluctantly choosing to leave the University of Virginia Malone moved with his wife to Washington D C 38 to assist Johnson with the dictionary a choice which he called the most painful decision I ever made 40 In January 1931 Johnson was unexpectedly killed in an automobile accident that made headlines in The New York Times and The Washington Post his death made Malone the editor in chief 41 of the DAB 21 a capacity which Malone continued to serve in until 1936 42 When the dictionary was finally completed nearly a decade later in 1942 it contained twenty volumes with the aid of more than 2 000 fellow biographers under his guidance 43 Malone found the seven years he had spent editing the DAB as being dull and tedious stating upon leaving that he would never edit again Nevertheless he remembered the experience as being invaluable to me as a writer because of what they taught me about precision and clarity and would eventually return to editing later in his career 44 Malone s work in writing articles for the dictionary provided the foundation for his future biography on Jefferson and nurtured his interest for biographing 45 Harvard University Press edit nbsp Malone pictured in the June 12 1938 edition of the Richmond Times Dispatch during his tenure as director of the Harvard University PressAt the recommendation of Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe 46 Malone was suggested as a possible candidate to serve as the third director of the Harvard University Press HUP Harvard President James B Conant persuaded by the positive appraisals of Malone from those he consulted extended an offer for him to take the position in December 1935 47 Malone accepted provided he be able to finish his time on the DAB and was formally appointed both as editor in chief 7 48 director 49 on December 1 1937 and as board chairman 50 following a vote by the Harvard Corporation He moved with his family to Lincoln Massachusetts 51 In January of the following year Malone described his new vision for the Press at a banquet dinner advocating for what he called scholarship plus the publication of works intended for the general public as opposed to pieces meant exclusively for scholars 52 53 Ordered by Conant to start from scratch Malone instituted a number of ambitious changes which were among the most significant reforms in the Press history the leadership of the Printing Office was terminated a new editorial staff was established to manage a more authoritative Press 54 and the old members of the Harvard Corporation resigned giving way to the appointment of a number of prominent scholars Conant also believed it appropriate for Malone to possess an academic title at the university and offered to name him as a professor of history though Malone declined the post 55 Malone viewed the role of the Harvard University Press as primarily an academic institution as opposed to a business 56 His administration of the Press achieved significant success garnering wide recognition from the publication of several notable works including two Pulitzer Prize winners and it saw a doubling 57 in sales His aspiration of opening up the Press to the general public fueled a reputation for producing important publications In May 1941 Conant congratulated him saying The general history of the Press for the past year is certainly one of which you may well be proud Keep it up 58 As the war continued however the Press margins became strained by an increasing sales deficit 59 and the relationship between Malone and the university administration began to deteriorate over serious financial issues in the midst of World War II 60 William Henry Claflin Jr Harvard s treasurer enacted a series of cost cutting measures which sought to limit the affairs of the HUP to be subordinate to a strict economy in response Malone appealed to university officials who in turn drafted a memorandum reaffirming the HUP s independence 61 With a stagnant audience for academic works and student enrollment waning during the war Malone recalled his time as director to be basically a lame duck leader 62 Mounting financial and administrative quandaries complicated his wartime directorship and diminished its reputation When news reached Conant of a roughly 26 000 deficit the Press had accumulated during the 1942 fiscal year his good relationship with it ended promptly 63 In January 1943 Malone s salary and duties were reduced in April a majority of officials doubted his future leadership in a vote of no confidence Following this rapid decline Malone presented his letter of resignation on July 17 writing that the major criteria by which my work is judged differ materially from those applied to the academic departments of the University 64 The Harvard Corporation accepted his request and in April 1943 Malone formally resigned his position as director in order to return to Virginia and begin work on his biography of Jefferson He and his family moved to Charlottesville Virginia in the summer of that same year 8 64 Return to Virginia edit Having been relieved from his duties at Harvard Malone dedicated his time to writing the first volume of his Jefferson biography in earnest upon returning to Virginia in 1943 65 Prior to his resignation as director his ambition to write the comprehensive biography was secured on June 1 1938 by means of a signed contract 66 Roger Scaife the managing editor of Little Brown and Company presented the settlement for a multi volume biography of Thomas Jefferson on March 22 1938 Malone s personal finances however remained burdened after years of amassing debt despite the contract s generous payment and royalties In early 1944 the historian Douglas Southall Freeman recommended that Malone be supplemented by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation 67 Since Malone was then unaffiliated with any institution and thus unable to satisfy the requirements for the grant UVA President John Lloyd Newcomb and the university s librarian Harry Clemons arranged for him to be given an honorary position so as to be affiliated with the University of Virginia 68 With the requirements satisfied the Rockefeller Foundation granted a sum of 21 000 in order to fund the biography in May 1944 69 nbsp Jefferson the Virginian depicted with Samuel Chamberlain s Springtime in Virginia from the April 25 1948 edition of the Richmond Times DispatchIn the winter of 1943 and 1944 Malone was selected to be the chief historian of a short lived secret committee of historians stationed at the Pentagon tasked with advising bombing policy In 1945 John A Krout chairman of the History Department at Columbia University extended an offer for him to be appointed as a professor of history at the university 70 Malone was at first reluctant to accept the position as it would disrupt his work on the first volume of his Jefferson biography but accepted when the Rockefeller Foundation mended the terms of his agreement to fit a part time teaching post During his time teaching at Columbia he would develop a friendship with Krout and Allan Nevins 71 In 1947 Malone finished his first volume Jefferson the Virginian and published the work on Jefferson s birthday the next year 72 The volume achieved acclaim by scholars and its release was well received by audiences 73 74 75 According to one review by historian Merle Curti writing in the Chicago Tribune The narrative and this is primarily a narrative rather than an interpretive biography is lucid and in places vivid But it is for the most part sober and straightforward Thus Jefferson the Virginian lacks the flashy dramatic picturesque quality which best sellers in the biographical field generally have Although Professor Malone makes occasional interpretations he has tried to let the facts he has selected speak for themselves 76 In anticipation of the coming series historian Thomas D Clark wrote in a similar appraisal This first volume is the beginning of a biographical series of major importance which will bring Jefferson to a grateful reading public 77 Legacy and honors editThose who follow trends in history and biography hear in Dumas Malone the voice of a scholar whose exacting standards our age has too little patience one who rejects easy explanations and facile judgements He at once shrinks from and rises above the fierce and superficial certainties of our age Edwin M Yoder Jr 78 Malone was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1936 79 The following year he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters by Dartmouth College and the University of Rochester 80 81 In 1951 and 1958 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship 82 In 1972 he was awarded Yale University s Wilbur L Cross Medal 83 84 and the John F Kennedy Medal of the Massachusetts Historical Society 85 In 1975 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History the oldest person to receive the award at the time 86 87 In 1982 he was awarded The Award for Distinguished Service to the Humanities of the Phi Beta Kappa Society 88 In 1983 President Ronald Reagan awarded Malone the Presidential Medal of Freedom 89 Malone was a member of the Virginia Historical Society 21 The trustees of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation established the Dumas Malone Graduate Research Fellowship at the University of Virginia in his honor allotting funds to support the research of outstanding advanced graduate students 90 When Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Charlottesville Virginia as part of her 1976 tour of the United States Governor Mills Godwin gifted her the first five volumes of Jefferson and His Time the sixth volume The Sage of Monticello had not yet been completed 8 Malone s volumes concluded that it was impossible for Jefferson to have had a relationship with Sally Hemings 91 Malone also published a set of lectures Thomas Jefferson as Political Leader 1963 with the University of California Press Personal life and death edit nbsp Malone s gravestone at the University of Virginia Cemetery in Charlottesville Virginia Malone married Elizabeth Gifford in 1925 with whom he would have two children 7 He died on December 27 1986 at his home in Charlottesville 6 According to the University of Virginia the cause had been a brief illness 92 He is buried at the University of Virginia Cemetery and Columbarium Selected publications editMalone Dumas 1923 The Public Life of Thomas Cooper 1783 1839 Dissertation New Haven CT Yale University Press ISBN 978 0404591175 Jefferson and His Time edit Malone Dumas 30 January 1948 Jefferson the Virginian Vol I Charlottesville Virginia Little Brown and Company published January 30 1948 ISBN 9780316544740 OCLC 1823927 Malone Dumas January 30 1951 Jefferson and the Rights of Man Vol II Charlottesville Virginia Little Brown and Company ISBN 9780316544733 Malone Dumas January 30 1962 Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty Vol III Charlottesville Virginia Little Brown and Company ISBN 9780316544757 Malone Dumas 1970 Jefferson the President First Term 1801 1805 Vol IV Charlottesville Virginia Little Brown and Company published February 28 1970 ISBN 9780316544672 Malone Dumas 1974 Jefferson the President Second Term 1805 1809 Vol V Charlottesville Virginia Little Brown and Company published January 1 1974 ISBN 978 0316544658 Malone Dumas 1981 The Sage of Monticello Vol VI Charlottesville Virginia Little Brown and Company ISBN 978 0813923666 Footnotes edit Malone was the second of seven children 8 Awarded based on the highest grade in all subjects 20 Malone later recalled the work as being largely erroneous the outline was certainly no contribution to scholarship in fact it contained errors that I afterwards found embarrassing But it represented my first effort to view Jefferson s prodigious life as a whole and marked no inconsiderable increase in my own knowledge of it 34 References edit Hyland 2013 p xi Ministers Named for New Pulpits The Atlanta Constitution 1 December 1914 p 10 Retrieved 18 March 2023 Dumas Malone Biography Books amp Thomas Jefferson Britannica www britannica com Retrieved 2023 03 08 Johnson David 2013 Long Journey with Mr Jefferson The Life of Dumas Malone Book Review The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 121 3 297 298 JSTOR 24392916 Shuffelton 1995 p 291 301 a b c d e f Peterson 1988 p 237 a b c d Pace Eric 28 December 1986 Dumas Malone expert on Jefferson is dead at 94 The New York Times Retrieved 2 July 2018 a b c d e f Rouse Parke S 17 October 1982 Dumas Malone Modest Southerner Scholarly Classicist Daily Press Retrieved 9 March 2023 via Newspapers com a b Hyland 2013 p 12 Hyland 2013 p 15 Hyland 2013 p 15 16 Hyland 2013 p 16 17 Hyland 2013 p 17 Fraternity Men Active Matriculates at Emory Offer Good Material for New Members The Atlanta Constitution 22 September 1906 p 11 Retrieved 18 March 2023 Hyland 2013 p 18 a b Hyland 2013 p 21 22 Hyland 2013 p 18 19 Reinforcing A Democracy Through the Education of Children Randolph Macon Nashville Banner 25 November 1916 p 22 Retrieved 18 March 2023 Hyland 2013 p 19 21 a b Social Notes From Georgia Colleges The Atlanta Constitution 14 March 1915 p 7 Retrieved 18 March 2023 a b c The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 1987 p 243 Hyland 2013 p 19 21 23 Hyland 2013 p 23 28 Hyland 2013 p 29 Hyland 2013 p 37 39 Hyland 2013 p 40 Yoder Jr Edwin M 15 July 1981 Mr Jefferson s indefatigable companion The Charlotte News Retrieved 8 March 2023 a b c Peterson 1988 p 239 Hyland 2013 pp 47 48 Peterson 1988 p 238 Hyland 2013 p 42 44 Shenker Israel 1975 01 09 Dumas Malone Is Completing Last Volume of the Biography The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2023 03 06 a b c Hyland 2013 p 46 a b Peterson 1988 p 239 a b Hyland 2013 p 51 Hyland 2013 p 52 Malone Dumas 1931 Polly Jefferson And Her Father The Virginia Quarterly Review 7 1 81 95 ISSN 0042 675X JSTOR 26433693 Hall 1986 p 66 a b Peterson 1988 p 240 Hyland 2013 p 55 56 68 Hyland 2013 p 56 77 Hall 1986 p 65 Peterson 1988 p 241 Hyland 2013 pp 67 68 Hyland 2013 p 73 75 Hyland 2013 p 70 71 Hyland 2013 p 77 Hall 1986 p 64 65 Hyland 2013 p 84 85 Dumas Malone The Washington Post ISSN 0190 8286 Retrieved 2023 03 14 Hall 1986 p 76 Hall 1986 p 65 69 Hyland 2013 p 85 87 88 Hyland 2013 p 86 A Brief History of Harvard University Press Harvard University Press www hup harvard edu Retrieved 2023 03 14 Hall 1986 p 69 70 Hyland 2013 p 87 88 Hall 1986 p 68 Hall 1986 p 67 Hall 1986 p 66 90 Hall 1986 p 88 89 Hyland 2013 p 90 91 Hyland 2013 p 92 93 Hyland 2013 p 93 Hall 1986 p 93 a b Hyland 2013 p 94 Hyland 2013 p 97 98 100 Hyland 2013 p 97 Hyland 2013 p 98 99 Hyland 2013 p 99 ROCKEFELLER GRANT AIDS JEFFERSON LIFE Dr Dumas Malone Gets 21 000 From Foundation for Biography The New York Times 1944 05 28 p 35 ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2023 03 22 Hyland 2013 p 102 103 Hyland 2013 p 103 105 Hyland 2013 p 106 Sims Catherine 18 April 1948 Scholarly Biography Wins Praise The Atlanta Constitution p 40 Retrieved 26 March 2023 Malone Releases First Volume of Great Jefferson Biography The Chattanooga Times 25 April 1948 p 19 Retrieved 26 March 2023 Peterson 1988 p 244 Curti Merle 2 May 1948 First Volume of Scholarly Appraisal by Dumas Malone Chicago Tribune pp 3 11 Retrieved 26 March 2023 Clark Thomas D 24 October 1948 Jefferson s Formative Years in Virginia A Review by Thomas D Clark Courier Journal p 46 Retrieved 26 March 2023 Edwin M Yoder Jr 5 August 1981 Dumas Malone s Achievement Forty Years with Jefferson The Roanoke Times Retrieved 17 March 2023 Dumas Malone American Academy of Arts amp Sciences 9 February 2023 Archived from the original on 19 March 2023 Retrieved 2023 03 08 Dumas Malone Honored With Dartmouth Degree The Harvard Crimson Archived from the original on 19 March 2023 Retrieved 2023 03 14 U of R Gives Degrees to 407 At Exercises Democrat and Chronicle 16 June 1936 p 17 Retrieved 18 March 2023 Dumas Malone John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Retrieved 2023 03 15 Past Medalists by Year Yale Graduate School of Arts amp Sciences gsas yale edu Retrieved 2023 03 12 Hyland 2013 p 37 John F Kennedy Medal to be Awarded at Annual Meeting Massachusetts Historical Society Retrieved 14 March 2023 Weil Martin December 28 1986 Dumas Malone 94 Biographer of Jefferson Dies The Washington Post Retrieved 8 March 2023 The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 1987 p 244 PBK Phi Beta Kappa Past Triennial Award Winners PBK Retrieved 2023 03 15 Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony for the Presidential Medal of Freedom Archived 2009 10 11 at the Wayback Machine 1983 02 23 retrieved 2009 07 30 Dumas Malone Graduate Research Fellowship Office of Graduate amp Postdoctoral Affairs gradstudies virginia edu Retrieved 2023 03 08 Harden Blaine February 13 1979 Revival of Rumor Disturbs Jefferson Scholars The Washington Post Archives L A Times 1986 12 28 Pulitzer Winner Was 94 Dumas Malone Noted for Jefferson Biography Dies Los Angeles Times Retrieved 2023 03 08 Scholarly sources edit Books edit Hall Max 1986 Harvard University Press A History Cambridge MA Harvard University Press ISBN 9780674380806 Hyland Jr William G 2013 Long Journey with Mr Jefferson The Life of Dumas Malone Washington D C Potomac Books ISBN 9781612341972 excerptJournals edit Powell J H 1953 Book Review Jefferson and the Rights of Man The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 101 103 Peterson Merrill D Winter 1982 Dumas Malone The Completion of a Monument The Virginia Quarterly Review 58 1 26 31 JSTOR 26437086 Dumas Malone 1892 1986 The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 95 2 243 244 April 1987 JSTOR 4248949 Peterson Merril D April 1988 Dumas Malone An Appreciation The William and Mary Quarterly 45 2 237 252 doi 10 2307 1922326 JSTOR 1922326 Shuffelton Frank Fall 1995 Being Definitive Jefferson Biography Under The Shadow of Dumas Malone Biography University of Hawai i Press 18 4 291 304 doi 10 1353 bio 2010 0187 S2CID 162257781 Further reading editRobert M S McDonald ed Thomas Jefferson s Lives Biographers and the Battle for History University of Virginia Press 2019 pp 219 243 onlineExternal links editWorks by or about Dumas Malone at Internet Archive Page at NNDB Circular letter from Encyclopedia of the Negro inc to Dumas Malone September 13 1938 1939 Harvard University Press Director Dr Dumas Malone Press Photo Malone Dumas Rockefeller Archives Letter from Anson Phelps Stokes to Dumas Malone October 20 1937 The Scholar s Way Then and Now by Dumas Malone Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Dumas Malone amp oldid 1196945883, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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