Barbara Tuchman was born on January 30, 1912 in New York City, New York, USA as Barbara Wertheim. She was a writer, known for The Guns of August (1964), The Guns of August and Slow Fires: On the Preservation of the Human Record (1987). She was married to Lester Reginald Tuchman. She died on February 6, 1989 in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA.