Churchill’s career as a writer straddles even his six decades as a statesman. He began writing as a schoolboy and published The Island Race, the last title in his lifetime, a few months before he died. For many of those years he was the highest paid journalist in the world, earning up to five dollars a word from the best publishers. In 1953 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature—not, as many suppose, for his war memoirs, but for his total output: history, biography, autobiography, political theory, memoirs, speeches, newspaper reports, articles, even a book about oil painting and an African travelogue. Richard Langworth is Founding Editor of "Finest Hour" and Senior Fellow of Hillsdale College's Churchill Project. Learn more about the Churchill Project at
