Like Wolfe, Donald was a southerner transplanted to the world of Yankee intellectuals, and spent his career examining the great divide between north and south. It was a more personal project because, as Donald put it, "Wolfe told my story". He won his second Pulitzer for Look Homeward, his 1987 biography of the novelist Thomas Wolfe, author of the 1929 classic Look Homeward, Angel. By the time the second volume was published in 1970, influenced by changes brought on by the civil rights movement, Donald's Sumner was more of a visionary moral leader. The first was in 1961 for the opening part of his two-volume biography of the abolitionist Charles Sumner, who he presented as a radical whose Republican leadership placed Lincoln in an almost untenable position. Although he twice won the Pulitzer prize, neither award honoured his work on Lincoln.
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