Authors

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.

—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 .

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Formerly a member of President Elsenhower’s White House staff, Mr. Fox has been a Congregational minister in various parts of the country, and is the author of books on church music and missionary activities.

William Price Fox is a novelist, journalist, and short-story writer. The final passage of his article comes from his most recent novel, Ruby Red , © 1971 by William Price Fox, and is reprinted here by permission of J. B. Lippincott Company.

Richard B. Frank is a historian and one of the leading authorities on the Asian theater of World War II. His books include Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle, which won the Wallace M. Greene Award from the U.S. Marine Corps; Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire; MacArthur, a short biography of the general; and his latest, Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, a planned trilogy, the first volume of which came out in 2020. Originally from Missouri, Frank served for four years in Vietnam as a rifle platoon leader with the 101st Airborne Division. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri (1969) and Georgetown University Law Center (1976).