Joan Doran Hedrick (born May 1, 1944) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Jack London.^[1]

Hedrick was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Paul Thomas Doran and Jane Connorton Doran.^[2]

She earned an A.B. degree from Vassar College in 1966, and a Ph.D. from Brown University in 1974. Her Ph.D. dissertation at Brown was titled "The True American: Henry Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, 'Prufrock', and Others".^[3] She taught at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut from 1972 through 1980 and in 1980 began teaching at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

In 1982, Hedrick's first book, Solitary Comrade: Jack London and His Work, was published by the University of North Carolina Press. Her book Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life was published in 1994 by Oxford University Press and won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.^[4] The book received favorable reviews from The New York Times^[5] and Publishers Weekly.^[6]

• Faculty page at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
• Appearances on C-SPAN

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