T.J. Stiles is the author of Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War, winner of the Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship and the Ambassador Book Award, and The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, which won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize.He has previously received a Guggenheim fellowship as well as a Gilder Lehrman Fellowship in American History at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library. He is currently writing a biography of George Armstrong Custer.