Stephen Ambrose
American historian and writer (1936–2002)
Who was Stephen Ambrose?
Stephen Ambrose lived from January 10, 1936 to October 13, 2002. He was a longtime professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the author of many bestselling volumes of American popular history. Ambrose was born on January 10, 1936, in Lovington, Illinois, to Rosepha Trippe Ambrose and Stephen Hedges Ambrose. Ambrose was raised in Whitewater, Wisconsin, where he graduated from Whitewater High School. His family also owned a farm in Lovington, Illinois, and vacation property in Marinette County, Wisconsin. He attended college at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was a member of Chi Psi fraternity and played on the University of Wisconsin football team for three years.
Career and public life
In 2002, several instances of plagiarism were discovered in his books. In 2010, after his death, Ambrose was found to have fabricated interviews and events in his biographies of Eisenhower.