Authors

Professor of history at Columbia University, Dr. Graff is the author of several books and of the article “A Heartbeat Away,” a survey of the Vice Presidency in the August, 1964, issue of AMERICAN HERITAGE .

Lloyd Graham of Orchard Park, New York, is the editor of a regional business magazine and the author of several books, among them Niagara Country , a description of the folklore and history of the Niagara frontier.

Frank Graham, Jr., lives, in the fishing village of Milbridge, Maine. His latest book, Since Silent Spring , published this month by Houghton Mifflin Company, is an account of events leading up to and following the publication of Rachel Carson’s historic work on the environmental impact of pesticides.

Bruce Ingham Granger teaches English at the University of Oklahoma. This article was written under the auspices of the American Philosophical Society, which now possesses the Franklin-Brillon correspondence. The society will publish the letters in their entirety, edited by Dr. Gilbert Chinard, later this year.

Geoffrey C. Ward’s book, Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882–1905 , includes additional material about the Delanos; a paperback edition will be published by Perennial Library this July. Frederic Delano Grant, Jr., is an attorney with the Boston law firm of McCabe/Gordon P.C.

Priscilla Grant has a consulting business in Portland and writes for several national magazines.

A former mayor of West Hartford, Connecticut, Ellsworth S. Grant now makes and distributes educational films. His most recent, Resolved to Be Free , was released early this year by the State Bicentennial Commission as the official film showing Connecticut’s role in the Revolution.

Neil A. Grauer is a Baltimore-based writer and caricaturist. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University, he has written three books on the history of Johns Hopkins Medicine: Centuries of Caring: The Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Story (2004); Leading the Way: A History of Johns Hopkins Medicine (2012); and The Special Field: A History of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins (2015). He also has written about many other facets of the university, including its century-long history as a lacrosse powerhouse – and is the creator of the cartoon Blue Jay mascot.

Formerly on the faculty of Texas Christian University, Mr. Graves is now a free-lance writer with special interest in conservation and in local history. The editors are grateful to Donald and Margaret Vogel, the authors of Aunt Clara: The Paintings of Clara McDonald Williamson ( University of Texas Press, 1966) for help in preparing the accompanying picture portfolio.

A grandnephew of Piatt Andrew, Mr. Gray was formerly director of the Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance in the United States Department of Commerce; he lives in Washington, D.C.

Admiral Cary Travers Grayson (1878 - 1938) was a surgeon in the U.S. Navy who served a variety of roles from personal aide to President Woodrow Wilson to chairman of the American Red Cross. After Grayson was named Navy surgeon for the Presidential yacht in 1907, he became friends with Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson. He was named the official White House Physician by Wilson, being promoted from Lieutenant to Rear Admiral. Later, Grayson participated in the coverup of the President's medical condition. His sons allowed the publciation of an important document written by Grayson in 1926 for the first time in the October 1964 isssue of American Heritage.

Gary T. Grayson, Jr., the publisher of Potomac Books, is a son of one of the participants in the 104-mile ride.

Lieutenant S. Dana Greene served aboard the USS Monitor during the Battle of Hampton Roads, taking command as a 22 year-old when the ship's captain was wounded.

Dr. William E. Green was the curator of history at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas, and the former assistant curator at the Witte Museum in San Antonio.

Marian Schomer Greene was Director of the Nassau County Office of Senior Citizens' Affairs and of the Jewish Association of Services for the Aged. She was a graduate of Hunter College and the Columbia University School of Social Work. 

Alan Greenspan served as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006. After retiring from that post, Greenspan wrote his memoir, titled The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World, in 2007, and works as a private adviser and consultant through his company, Greenspan Associates, LLC. President George W. Bush awarded Greenspan the Presidential Medal of Freedom in November 2005.

Burt W. Griffin is the author of JFK, Oswald and Ruby: Politics, Prejudice and Truth and Cities Within a City: On Changing Cleveland's Government. Judge Griffin was Assistant Counsel to the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy (commonly known as the Warren Commission) and served for many years as a judge in the Common Pleas Court of Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Before that, he was a legal aid lawyer and served as Executive Director of the Cleveland Legal Aid Society and National Director of the Legal Services Program, U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity.  Judge Griffin graduated cum laude from Amherst College with a degree in political science, and later graduated from Yale Law School.

Elisabeth Griffith is the author of FORMIDABLE: American Women and the Fight for Equality, 1920-2020 (Pegasus, 2022). Her biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, IN HER OWN RIGHT (Oxford, 1984), was the basis for Ken Burns’ only documentary about women, “Not For Ourselves Alone. “ Ms. Griffith earned a bachelor's degree at Wellesley College, a master's degree at Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D. in history from American University.  She is a member of the Society of American Historians and Veteran Feminists of America.

John Griggs has been an actor for thirty-five years, with more than a score of Broadway plays to his credit. He has also made numerous appearances on radio and television.

Jon Grinspan is a historian of American democracy, youth, and popular culture. He is a curator of political history at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and a frequent contributor to the New York Times.

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George Groh has written extensively on medical subjects. He is also the author of “Last of the Rebel Raiders,” which appeared in the December, 1958, AMERICAN HERITAGE . For further reading: The Midwest Pioneer , by Madge Pickard and R. Carlyle Buley (Henry Schuman, 1946); Doctors on Horseback , by James T. Flexner (Viking Press, 1937).

George W. Groh is a former Milwaukee and Corpus Christi, Texas, newspaperman and free-lance magazine writer now working for MD , a medical newsmagazine in New York City.

Winston Groom is the author of sixteen books including including the bestseller Forrest Gump, and coauthor of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize nominee, Conversations with the Enemy. He also worked eight years for the Washington Star. In addition to Forrest Gump and ​Gump & Co., Groom’s novels include Better Times Than These, Gone the Sun, ​Only and the award-winning As Summers Die, which was made into a movie starring Bette Davis.  He is also the author of ​Conversations with the Enemy​, a non-fiction account of the experience of an American prisoner of war in Vietnam, a brilliantly rendered Pulitzer Prize finalist. His novel Such a Pretty, Pretty Girl, was published by Random House in the spring of 1999

Edwin S. Grosvenor is the Editor-in-Chief of American Heritage and Invention & Technology Magazines, and President of the National Historical Society.

Dr. Allen C. Guelzo is the Senior Research Scholar in the Council of the Humanities and Director of the Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. He is the author of several award-winning books on Lincoln and the Civil War, including Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, and Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America. His book on the battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, also won a Lincoln Prize and was a New York Times bestseller in 2013.

Charles Guggenheim, a three-time Academy Award winner, lives in Washington, D.C.

The Wealthy 100 was published by Citadel Press in 1996. Michael Klepper is the head of Michael Klepper and Associates in New York City, and Robert Gunther is the head of a communications firm in Kimberton, Pennsylvania.

American playwright and novelist A. R. Gurney, Jr. has written dozens of plays including Love Letters, The Cocktail Hour, and The Dining Room. Gurney currently lives in both New York and Connecticut.

C. W. Gusewelle, whose article “ A Continuity of Place and Blood The Seasons of Man in the Ozarks ” appeared in our December, 1977, issue, is an editor and writer for the Kansas City Star.

Richard J. S. Gutman’s American Diner Then and Now , a definitive history to be published by HarperCollins in May 1993, includes a directory of fourteen hundred currently operating diners.

Nicholas Guyatt is a historian and lecturer in modern history at the University of Cambridge. After earning degrees at Cambridge and a Ph.D. at Princeton, he taught American history in the US, Canada and the UK. Guyatt is the author of six books including The Hated Cage, Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607–1876, and Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation. He has written about written about American history for such publications as the Nation magazine, the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian, and the London Review of Books.  

Richard Haass is a U.S. diplomat, author, and former president of the Council on Foreign Relations. Before joining the Council in 2003, Haass was Director of Policy Planning for the Department of State, where he was a principal adviser to Secretary of State Colin Powell. A confirmed ambassador by the U.S. Senate, Haass also served as U.S. Coordinator for the Future of Afghanistan, US envoy to the Northern Ireland peace process, and special assistant to President George H.W. Bush and senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs on the staff of the National Security Council. In 1991, Haass was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal for his contributions to US policy during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. 

Fred Haefele is an essayist and writer who published his award-winning motorcycle memoir, Rebuilding the Indian, in 1998. Haefele has been published in Outside, Wired, Newsday, and The New York Times. He has also taught creative writing at the University of Montana and Stanford University.

Stephen W. Sears is the author of George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon . His article on Antietam appeared in the April 1989 issue.

Emily Hahn (1905-1997) was an American journalist and author. Called "a forgotten American literary treasure" by The New Yorker magazine, she was the author of 52 books and more than 180 articles and stories. Ms. Hahn smoked large cigars, drank with gusto and maintained a chaotic love life across several continents.

Dr. Francis Haines taught social science at Oregon College of Education and was a well-known authority on the Nez Percé Indians and the Appaloosa breed of horses. Born in West Virginia, he was raised in Montana, where he developed his interest in the American West. Haines authored Appaloosa: The Spotted Horse in Art and History and his various writings helped renew interest in the breed.  The Appaloosa Museum and Heritage Center in Moscow, Idaho was originally dedicated to him. 

Shirlee Taylor Haizlip is currently working on a sequel to The Sweeter the Juice , which is now in paperback from Touchstone.

David Halberstam’s books include The Best and the Brightest , The Powers That Be , and The Reckoning . This article is excerpted from The Fifties , which will be published by Villard Books, a division of Random House, in June.

William Harlan Hale is managing editor of HORIZON . His last contribution to AMERICAN HERITAGE was “When the Red Storm Broke,” in the February, 1961, issue. For further reading: Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin , by Herbert Feis (Princeton University Press, 1957); Admiral Ambassador to Russia , by William H. Standley (Henry Regnery, 1955); The Strange Alliance , by John R. Deane (Viking, 1946); Speaking Frankly , by James F. Byrnes (Harper, 1947).