Authors

John A. Farrell is the author of several biographies on U.S. figures, including Richard Nixon: The Life, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2018. His most recent work is Ted Kennedy: A Life, a portrait of the late Massachusetts senator and 1980 presidential candidate. Farrell is a former White House correspondent and Washington editor for The Boston Globe and a former Washington bureau chief and columnist for The Denver Post. For his biography of Nixon, he was awarded the title of "American Historian Laureate" by the New York Historical Society.

Byron Farwell, who lives in Virginia, is the author of many books on Englishmen, British history, and Africa, the most recent of which is The Great Anglo-Boer War, published this month by Harper O1 Row. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Drew Gilpin Faust is the current president of Harvard University and the Lincoln Professor of History. Raised in Virginia, Faust specializes in Civil War and Antebellum history, and writes primarily on the Old South. Her most recent book, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, was released in 2008 and won the 2009 Bancroft Prize from Columbia University. She has served as Harvard's 28th president since 2007.

Don. E. Fehrenbacher is a member of the board of advisers of this magazine and the author of The Dred Scot Case , which won the 1979 Pulitzer prize for history. This is his first appearance in our pages. This article originated as the R. Gerald McMurtry Lecture for 1979, under the auspices of the Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library and Museum, Fort Wayne, Indiana. COPYRIGHT © 1979 LOUIS A. WARREN LINCOLN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Joe Michael Feist is a Texas freelance writer.

Ellen Feldman is an author, historian, and 2009 Guggenheim Fellow who has written three books: Scottsboro, The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank, and Lucy. Feldman frequently writes for The Huffington Post and American Heritage, and has lectured across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.

Earl Fendelman is Associate Professor of English at Lehman College, the City University of New York.

Julie M. Fenster is a noted American author. Her book Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It won the Anesthesia Foundation Award for Best Book in 2004, and her 2006 book, Parish Priest, co-authored with Douglas Brinkley, was a New York Times bestseller.

—J. M. Fenster is the author of the forthcoming Ether Day: A Strange Tale of the Discovery ‘of Anesthesia and the Haunted Men Who Made It .

Professor Richard Challener, of Princeton University, is a specialist in modern American diplomatic and military history. John Fenton, a former editor with the Gallup Poll, works in Princeton !? Office of Public Information. They are writing a biography of John Foster Duties to be published by Harper & Row.

John E. Ferling is a professor emeritus of history at the University of West Georgia, and a leading historian in the American Revolution and founding era.

Robert H. Ferrell, professor of history at the University of Indiana, specializ.es in American diplomatic history. Some of his other incisive and independent views appeared in “Conversations with Historians,” AMERICAN HERITAGE , February, 1970.

William "Willie" Morris (1934–1999) was an American writer and editor born in Jackson, Mississippi who write lyrical prose and reflections on the American South, particularly the Mississippi Delta. In 1967 Morris became the youngest editor of Harper's Magazine and edited it for four years before leaving. Morris wrote several works of fiction and non-fiction, including his seminal book North Toward Home, as well as My Dog Skip.

William R. Ferris is a professor emeritus of history and the University of North Carolina and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Prof. Ferris is widely recognized as a leader in Southern studies, African-American music and folklore. Prior to his role at NEH, Ferris served as the founding director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, where he was a faculty member for 18 years. Ferris has written and edited 10 books and created 15 documentary films, most of which deal with African-American music and other folklore representing the Mississippi Delta. He co-edited the Pulitzer Prize nominee Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (UNC Press, 1989), which contains entries on every aspect of Southern culture and is widely recognized as a major reference work linking popular, folk, and academic cultures.

Gerard Piel, class of 1937 and twice elected to the Harvard Board of Overseers, is chairman of Scientific American .

James A. Field, Jr., is Isaac H. Clothier Professor of History and International Relations Emeritus at Swarthmore College.

Wayne Fields teaches American literature at Washington University in St. Louis. He is author of What the River Knows and a forthcoming book on presidential rhetoric, A Union of Words .

— Martin Filler is the architecture critic of The New Republic and writes for The New York Review of Books .

Kenneth Finkel is the curator of prints at the Library Company of Philadelphia.

David Hackett Fischer is the Earl Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University and is best-known for writing Albion's Seed and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History). 

Dorothy Canfield Fisher was born in Lawrence, Kansas, and now lives in Arlington, Vermont. She is a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and has been publishing books regularly since 1904. Her short stories are contained in numerous anthologies.

Marshall Fishwick, was a professor emeritus of American studies at Washington and Lee University, was the author of Virginia, the first volume in Harper’s new “Regions of America” series. He was the recipient of 8 Fulbright awards. He passed away in 2006.

James Marston Fitch, an authority on architectural history, is now director of Historic Preservation for the New York architectural firm ofBeyer, Blinder, and Belle.

Thomas A. Fitzgerald, Jr. was born in Boston in 1934 and now lives in Lakewood, CO. His father was Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy's younger brother.

Born in Boston in 1934, Thomas Acton Fitzgerald now lives in Denver, Colorado, where he is principal of the Lower School at Colorado Academy. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy is his father’s elder sister.

Constantine FitzGibbon is the author of numerous books, including When the Kissing Had to Stop, The Life of Dylan Thomas , and Drink.

Kathleen Fitzsimmons is a teacher and historian living in Leadville, where she enjoys the mountains, myths, and people of Colorado.

Jack Flam is a professor of art history at Brooklyn College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and art critic for The Wall Street Journal . He wrote about the society painter Guy Pène du Bois in our February 1989 issue.

E. McClung Fleming is a noted researcher and author who has written such books as R.R. Bowker: Militant Liberal, and A tribute to Charles F. Montgomery, 1910-1978.

Thomas Fleming is a longtime contributor to American Heritage and former president of the Society of American Historians. He is the author of dozens of respected books on American history, including Franklin, George Washington: Spymaster Extraordinaire, My Days with Harry Truman, Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers, The Perils of Peace: America's Struggle for Survival After Yorktown, Now We Are Enemies: The Story of Bunker Hill, The Great Divide: The Conflict between Washington and Jefferson that Defined a Nation, and A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War. Fleming has appeared on C-SPAN, the History Channel, A&E, and PBS. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and graduated with honors from Fordham University.

James Thomas Flexner (1908-2003) was most famous for his extensive writings on American art history and a four-volume biography of George Washington, for which he won a special Pulitzer citation. Flexner's other historical biographies include the one-volume Washington: The Indispensable Man, The Young Hamilton, Mohawk Baronet (Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet), and The Traitor and the Spy: Benedict Arnold and John Andre.

Beatrice Hudson Flexner is a professional singer and instrumentalist who has made a specialty of performing early American music, and has also lectured on the subject. She is the wife of the American historian James Thomas Flexner.

James J. Flink taught comparative culture at the University of California, Irvine, and was the author of America Adopts the Automobile, 1895-1910 (M.I.T. Press, 1970).

Marshall Fishwick ii associate professor of American studies at Washington and Lee University. Among his recent books are The Virginia Tradition. General Lee’s Photographer , and American Heroes: Myth and Reality .

Mrs. Jensen is the author of The White House and Its Thirty-Three Families . She and her husband, Howard, are preparing a TV film on the mansion’s paintings.

Eric Foner, the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, has served as president of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Society of American Historians. One of the foremost experts on the Civil War, Slavery, Reconstruction, and Abraham Lincoln, Foner's most recent book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, published in the fall of 2010, won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2011.

Shelby Foote (1916 – 2005) was an American historian and novelist who wrote The Civil War: A Narrative, a massive, three-volume history of the war. Foote became well-known to the public after his appearance in Ken Burns's PBS documentary The Civil War in 1990. In 2003, Foote received the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award presented by the Tulsa Library Trust. Photo courtesy of www.achievement.org

Timothy Forbes was President and Chief Operating Officer of Forbes. Mr. Forbes joined the company in 1986 after negotiating the acquisition of the American Heritage division. He is involved in the strategic planning and business development of the company, and he serves as Chairman of Forbes.com. Prior to joining Forbes, Tim Forbes was an independent producer and screenwriter; his documentaries on historical subjects and current affairs have been broadcast nationally on PBS.

Diana Forbes-Robertson is a free-lance writer who makes her home in Europe.

C. S. Forester (1899-1966) wrote several novels with military and naval themes, including The African Queen, The Barbary Pirates, The General, The Good Shepherd, The Gun, The Last Nine Days of the "Bismarck", and Rifleman Dodd. But Forester is best known as the creator of Horatio Hornblower, a British naval genius of the Napoleonic era, whose exploits and adventures on the high seas Forester chronicled in a series of eleven acclaimed historical novels. Over the years, Hornblower has proved to be one of the most beloved and enduring fictional heroes in English literature, his popularity rivaled only by Sherlock Holmes.