Jean Jules Jusserand Biography

Jean J. Jusserand (February 18, 1855–July 18, 1932) was Ambassador Extraordinary to the United States in the first quarter of the 20th century, where he played a critical part in drawing the U.S. into the First World War. He authored English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages (1889), A Literary History of the English People (1895-1909), and With Americans of Past and Present Days (1916), which won the first Pulitzer Prize for History in 1917.

Bibliography

English wayfaring life in the middle ages (xivth century), by J. J. Jusserand. Translated from the French by Lucy Toulmin Smith. London, T. F. Unwin, 1889; Reprint, Boston: Longwood Press, 1977.

A literary history of the English people, from the origins to the renaissance, by J. J. Jusserand. 3 vols. London, T. F. Unwin, 1895; Reprint, New York, B. Blom, 1968.

English essays from a French pen, by J.J. Jusserand. London, T.F. Unwin, 1895; Reprint, New York, AMS Press [1970]

Shakespeare in France under the ancien régime, by J. J. Jusserand. London, T. F. Unwin, 1899.

Ronsard, par J. J. Jusserand. Paris, Hachette et cie, 1913.

With Americans of past and present days, by J. J. Jusserand. New York, C. Scribner, 1916; Reprint, Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1972.

The school for ambassadors and other essays, by J. J. Jusserand. London, T. F. Unwin ltd., 1924; Reprint, Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1968.

What me befell; the reminiscences of J. J. Jusserand. Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1933; Reprint, Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1972.

The writing of history, by Jean Jules Jusserand [and others]. New York, B. Franklin Reprints, 1974.