What is Rhys Isaac?
[[File:Small picture of Rhys with book 1983.jpg|thumb|200px|Isaac in 1983]] '''Rhys Llywelyn Isaac''' (20 November 1937 – 6 October 2010) was a [[South Africa]]n-born [[Australia]]n historian of [[History of the United States|American history]]. Isaac won the 1983 [[Pulitzer Prize]] for History for his book ''[[The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790]]''. He is the only Australian historian to win a Pulitzer Prize. In 1963, he moved to Australia, where he taught at the [[University of Melbourne]]. He later worked at [[La Trobe University]] from 1971 to 1999, where he was Emeritus Professor of American History. In 1975, Isaac was a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Early American History at the [[College of William & Mary]] in [[Williamsburg, Virginia]], United States. Isaac was born in [[Cape Town]]. His twin brother, [[Glynn Isaac|Glynn]], was an [[archaeologist]]. His parents, William Edwyn Isaac and [[Frances Margaret Leighton]], were [[botanist]]s. On 6 October 2010, Isaac died of cancer in [[Blairgowrie, Victoria]]. He was 72.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wm.edu/news/announcements/archive/2010/former-history-professor-rhys-isaac-dead-at-72.php|title=Former history professor Rhys Isaac dead at 72|publisher=[[College of William & Mary]]|access-date=3 October 2020|date=7 October 2010}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Isaac, Rhys}} [[Category:1937 births]] [[Category:2010 deaths]] [[Category:Australian historians]] [[Category:Cancer deaths in Victoria (Australia)]] [[Category:People from Cape Town]] [[Category:Pulitzer Prize winners]] [[Category:Naturalised citizens of Australia]] [[Category:White South African people]] [[Category:Twin people from Australia]] {{bio-stub}}