The British statesman Winston Churchill was a prolific writer throughout his life, and many of his works were historical. His better-known works as a historian include: Marlborough: His Life and Times, The World Crisis (a five-volume history of World War I), The Second World War (six-volumes), and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (four-volumes). Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for "his mastery of historical and biographical description".