Joseph Frazier Wall (July 10, 1920 in Des Moines, Iowa – October 9, 1995) was an American historian and professor of history at Grinnell College.
[1] He was born in Des Moines, and graduated from Grinnell College in 1941.
He took a leave of absence in the late 1980s to be chairman of the History Department at the State University of New York in Albany.
[1] His biography of Andrew Carnegie won the Bancroft Prize in 1971,[1] and was recommended by Charlie Munger in his book Poor Charlie's Almanack.
His biography on the Du Pont family was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.