NATION : Author Barbara Tuchman Dies

Barbara Tuchman, a historian and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner whose most recent book has been a best-seller for more than two months, died today, a spokeswoman said. She was 77 and had suffered a stroke.

Tuchman’s latest book, “The First Salute,” a look at the American Revolution and the Dutch revolution that preceded it by 200 years, has been on The New York Times best-seller list for more than nine weeks. She won the Pulitzer Prize for history for “The Guns of August” in 1962, and for “Stilwell and the American Experience in China” in 1971. In 1978, she was awarded the Gold Medal for History of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She has received 22 honorary doctorates.