Paul Horgan; Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Paul Horgan, 91, an English professor whose writing earned two Pulitzer Prizes. Horgan, who taught at Wesleyan University, won the Pulitzer for history in 1955 with his book “Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History” and another for history-biography in 1976 for “Lamy of Santa Fe.” The prolific writer also won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a Times Robert Kirsch Award for a body of work about the American West, both in 1987. Horgan was named a Knight of St. Gregory by the Catholic Church in 1957 and won a National Catholic Book Award in 1965 and again in 1969. He wrote more than 40 books, including 17 novels, four volumes of short stories and five biographies. Although he was born in Buffalo, N.Y., and spent many years in Connecticut, Horgan was educated at the New Mexico Military Institute, where he came to love the West. On Tuesday in Middletown, Conn.