John Fabian Witt

Photograph by Beverly Gage

About The Author

John Fabian Witt is the Allen H. Duffy class of 1960 professor of law at Yale Law School and a professor in the Yale history department. He is the author of a number of books, including Lincoln’s Code, which was awarded the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Nation, and The New Republic, among other publications. He lives with his family in Connecticut where he tends an orchard, watches baseball, and fishes in the Long Island Sound.

Books by John Fabian Witt

The Radical Fund

How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America

By John Fabian Witt
As recommended on The Ezra Klein Show

From Pulitzer Prize finalist John Fabian Witt comes the “engrossing” (The New York Times) secret history of an epic experiment to remake American democracy. Before the dark money of the Koch Brothers, before the billions of th...
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Lincoln's Code

The Laws of War in American History

By John Fabian Witt
This acclaimed, award-winning book is a “sweeping history” (The New York Times Book Review) of the code of laws of war for American armies, set forth by Abraham Lincoln in the midst of the Civil War.
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