Arthur Walworth, 101; Won Pulitzer for Wilson Biography

Arthur Walworth, 101, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1959 for his biography of Woodrow Wilson, died Jan 10 in Needham, Mass.

The cause of death was not announced.

Born in Newton, Mass., Walworth graduated from Yale and spent a year teaching school in China.

He spent more than two decades working in the educational department at the publishing house Houghton Mifflin.

Walworth’s two-volume biography of Wilson, (“Woodrow Wilson: American Prophet” and “Woodrow Wilson: World Prophet”) was published in 1958. He wrote another book on Wilson, “Wilson and His Peacemakers: American Diplomacy at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919,” which was published in 1986.

In addition to his books on Wilson, Walworth wrote “Black Ships Off Japan: The Story of Commodore Perry’s Expedition” (1946) and “America’s Moment: American Diplomacy at the End of World War I” (1977).