Life David Brion Davis, Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar who documented slavery, dead at 92 April 15, 2019Hillel Italie, APComments Off on David Brion Davis, Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar who documented slavery, dead at 92 David Brion Davis died at age 92 of natural causes, Yale University announced. Davis was a professor emeritus there, and a Pulitzer Prize winner.