Dr. Gordon S. Wood, professor of history at Brown University, is widely known as the author of numerous influential books and articles on American history. He is perhaps best known to popular culture from the scene in 1997 film Good Will Hunting in which Matt Damon’s character gets into a dispute at the neighborhood pub. Dr. Wood was awarded the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book The Radicalism of the American Revolution, the 1970 Bancroft Prize for his book the Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, and the 2010 National Humanities Medal, bestowed by President Barack Obama. In 2009, Dr. Wood contributed an account of the early republic to the esteemed Oxford History of The United States series, nearly winning another Pulitzer Prize for that book. Dr. Wood is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Republic. He is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.