Joseph J. Ellis Biography
Joseph J. Ellis is the Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke
College. Educated at the College of William and Mary and Yale University, he
served as a captain in the army and taught at West Point before coming to Mount
Holyoke in 1972. He was dean of the faculty there for ten years. Among his
books are Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams
and American Sphinx, which won the 1997 National Book Award.
This biography was last updated on 08/24/2011.
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