Michael O'Brien

Michael O'Brien (b. 1948) is Professor of American Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He has written widely on the history of American intellectual culture. His book, CONJECTURES OF ORDER (2004) won the Bancroft Prize and was a Nominated Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History and his MRS. ADAMS IN WINTER (2010) was a Nominated Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography and Autobiography.