Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by T. J. Stiles

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American biographer T. J. Stiles.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
T. J. Stiles

T. J. Stiles is an American biographer who lives in Berkeley, California. His book The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt won a National Book Award and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. His book Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History.

We need to have great wealth and we need to have the critics of great wealth.
A thin line separates destiny from coincidence.
A vivid tale of exploration set in a howling, deadly wilderness. — © T. J. Stiles
A vivid tale of exploration set in a howling, deadly wilderness.
I worked on my book for about seven years and I had no idea it would be so timely when it was published.
The engine of growth is also the engine of inequality.
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