Edwin G. Burrows, a Brooklyn College professor who shared the Pulitzer Prize for the magisterial narrative “Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898,” died on Friday at his home in Huntington, N.Y., on Long Island. He was 74.

The cause was Parkinson’s disease, his daughter, Kate Burrows, said.

In 1999, Professor Burrows and Mike Wallace, a fellow professor at the City University of New York, won the Pulitzer Prize for history for their 1,424-page doorstop, which was instantly acclaimed a definitive, populist and novelistic account of the city’s first three centuries.

Professor Burrows, who taught at Brooklyn College for 41 years, was the author of two other books, both delving into neglected chapters of the city’s history: “Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War” (2008) and “The Finest Building in America: The New York Crystal Palace, 1853-1858” (2018).

Professor Burrows’s passion for history was piqued when he was in college. (At least he found it more penetrable than his original major, physics).