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David Grubin is a producer, director, writer, and cinematographer who has won every major award in his field, including three George Foster Peabody awards, two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University awards, and nine Emmys.

As a writer, he has won an Emmy and received four awards from the Writers Guild. As a director, he has received three Emmy nominations. As a cinematographer, he has received one Emmy and five Emmy nominations. As the president of DAVID GRUBIN PRODUCTIONS, INC, Mr. Grubin has produced over 100 films on subjects ranging from history to art, from poetry to science.

His most recent series for television – The Jewish Americans – aired on PBS to widespread acclaim. Grubin’s biographies of American Presidents for American Experience on PBS set the standard for television biography:

FDR, his 4-1/2 hour biography of Franklin Roosevelt, has won many prizes, including awards from the International Documentary Association, the American Historical Association, and the National Education Association. TR: THE STORY OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT, his 4 hour biography of Theodore Roosevelt, won a host of awards including two Emmys and a Christopher Award. TRUMAN, his 4-1/2 hour biography of the 33rd president, received a Primetime Emmy and the Writers Guild Award for best documentary script. ABRAHAM AND MARY LINCOLN: A HOUSE DIVIDED, his 6 hour biography of the Lincolns, has won many prizes and wide acclaim from critics across the country:

Grubin’s many other programs have also been widely celebrated: RFK (2 hours), The Secret Life Of The Brain (5 parts), Napoleon (4 parts), Destination America (4 hours). Grubin’s five-part series for PBS – HEALING AND THE MIND with BILL MOYERS – has won many awards, and the companion book, for which he was executive editor, rose to number one on The New York Times Best Sellers list, remaining on the list for 32 weeks.

His biography – Marie Antoinette – for which he won his fourth Writer’s Guild Award, premiered at Versailles in October 2005 and aired on PBS in September 2006. His three-hour series The Mysterious Human Heart (PBS- 2007) has just received an Emmy nomination, his 20th. Currently, he is producing Oppenheimer, a two-hour biography for American Experience.

A member of the executive committee of the Society of American Historians, Grubin has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, has been a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College, and is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Hamilton College. He is member of the Directors Guild and the Writers Guild, and is a former chairman of the board of directors of The Film Forum.

He is married to the artist Joan Grubin and lives in New York City.