About Paul Horgan
Paul George Vincent O'Shaughnessy Horgan was an American writer of historical fiction and non-fiction who mainly wrote about the Southwestern United States. He was the recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes for History. In 1923, Horgan enrolled in the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, but dropped out after the first year. In 1955, Horgan won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Bancroft Prize for history with Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History, a history of the Rio Grande River in Mexico and the United States. He published his first novel, The Fault of Angels, about his experiences in Rochester in 1923; it won the Harper Prize. In 1959, Horgan became a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
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