David McCullough, one of America’s greatest historians, and a confirmed Oxfordian, died on August 7, at his home near Boston.
In 1984 he wrote the Foreword to Charlton Ogburn’s magnum opus, ”The Mysterious William Shakespeare: The Myth and the Reality.”
McCullough, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, a National Book Award and numerous other prizes, heard Ogburn talk about the authorship issue at a restaurant in Washington D.C. in the 1960s. “He was absolutely spellbinding,” McCullough wrote. “The case he made against the man from Stratford-on-Avon seemed to be to be astonishing, overwhelming and the more he went on the more I was impressed by both his penetrating mind and his phenomenal grasp of the subject. He seemed to understand Shakespeare better than anyone I had ever met.”
Read The New York Times obituary of David McCullough.
