The Douglass book has been optioned by Higher Ground Productions and Netflix for a projected feature film. In October of 2018, Simon and Schuster published his new biography of Frederick Douglass, entitled, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, which garnered nine book awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Francis Parkman Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, New York Public Library. During the 2006-07 academic year he was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. In 2013-14 he was the William Pitt Professor of American History at Cambridge University, UK, and in 2010-11, Blight was the Rogers Distinguished Fellow in 19th-Century American History at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. He previously taught at Amherst College for thirteen years. In his capacity as director of the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale, Blight organizes conferences, working groups, lectures, the administering of the annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, and many public outreach programs regarding the history of slavery and its abolition. As of June, 2004, he is Director, succeeding David Brion Davis, of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. At Yale University he is Sterling Professor of History, joining that faculty in January, 2003. David W. Blight is a teacher, scholar and public historian.
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