David Gaub McCullough is an American author, narrator, and lecturer. A two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Francis Parkman Prize, he is widely referred to as a "master of the art of narrative history." He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award, in December 2006. His works have been published in ten languages, and over nine million copies have been printed. His eight books, all published by Simon & Schuster, have never gone out of print, a rarity among writers. The New York Times critic, John Leonard, said that David McCullough was incapable of writing a page of bad prose. McCullough's next work, about Americans in Paris, is due out in 2010.