Awards

Honorary Degree - 1948

LL.D.

Doctor of Laws

Commencement

Bloomington, Indiana

Presenter: Herman B Wells

About David Laurance Chambers

David Laurance Chambers was born in Washington, D.C. in 1879. He graduated from Princeton University in 1900. He completed an M.A. in 1901 and was named a Charles Scribner Fellow in English. He was the recipient of honorary degrees from both Wabash College and Indiana University in 1937 and 1948 respectively.

Chambers began working for the Bobbs-Merrill Company, a publishing firm in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1903. He rose to the rank of Vice President of the company in 1921, and by 1935, he was president. During his near three-decades as editor, the company produced ten best sellers and eight literary awards - three of them, Pulitzer Prize winners.