Authors

Larry L. King (1929–2012) was a playwright, journalist, and novelist, best remembered for his 1978 Tony Award-nominated play "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas." From 1954 to 1964 Larry L. King was a Capitol Hill aide; he worked in 1959-60 as an advance man for Lyndon Johnson’s preconvention campaign and, later, on the Kennedy-Johnson campaign during the 1960 Presidential race. King was the author of 14 books including Of Outlaws, Con Men, Whores and Politicians.

BB King is the king of the blues.

—Stephen King’s most recent novel is Bag of Bones .

Maxine Hong Kingston won the 1976 National Book Critics Circle Award for her novel The Woman Warrior.

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

Paul H. Downing, the technical expert in this collaboration, is an ex-cavalryman and onetime banker whose avocation is horse-drawn vehicles. Recently he became a professional consultant on carriages, and has supervised the reconstruction of Eighteenth-Century carriages for Colonial Williamsburg. He is now museum curator in this field for the National Parks Service. Harrison Kinney, the writer, is an editor of McCall’s Magazine, formerly a staff writer for The New Yorker .

Frank Kintrea, a frequent contributor to AMERICAN HERITAGE, got his secondary schooling at Lawrenceville, another all-male, private school.

Jeff Kisseloff is the author most recently of The Box: An Oral History of Television, 1920-1961 (Viking, 1995).

Henry A. Kissinger is Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm. He served as Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977, and previously was  

Robert Klara is an editor and freelance writer who lives in Manhattan.

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Spencer Klaw teaches journalism at Columbia University and is a frequent contributor to our pages.

Philip Shriver Klein is the head of the history department at the Pennsylvania State University and president of the Pennsylvania Historical Association. Author of several books, he is now at work completing a biography of James Buchanan.

—Maury Klein is the author of The Life and Legend of E. H. Harriman . His book Rainbow’s End: The Crash of 1929 will be published in October by Oxford University Press.

Gil Klein is now Resident Director of the University of Oklahoma’s Washington Journalism Program after teaching Journalism and New Media at American University’s Washington Semester Program. Coming to Washington in 1985 from the Tampa Tribune, he was a national correspondent for the Media General News Service for 22 years, writing for 23 Southern newspapers.  Mr. Klein was the 1994 president of the National Press Club and now is chair of its History and Heritage committee. In 2008, he toured the United States for the Club, moderating forums with leading local journalists on the future of journalism and how to protect its core values.

Greg Klerkx wrote Lost in Space: The Fall of NASA and the Dream of a New Space Age .

Jocelyn W. Knowles is a writer in Sarasota, Florida.

Horace Knowles, a public relations man, is the editor of Gentlemen, Scholars, and Scoundrels , an anthology taken from more than a century of Harper’s Magazine . For further reading: Americans in Eastern Asia , by Tyler Dennett (Macmillan, 1922); China’s Management of the American Barbarians , by Earl Swisher (Yale University, 1953).

O’Donnell was only one of the graveyards. Later in the war those still alive were moved to labor camps in Japan where many more starved or were worked to death. Altogether about ten thousand Americans made the Death March: one thousand died. Another five thousand died later while in Japanese hands. Donald Knox, who conducted these interviews, is a television documentary producer based in Minneapolis. He reports that recalling these events—even thirty-five years later—was still so painful for many of the survivors that they would make him stop the tape recorder while they cried.

John Kobler’s most recent book is Otto the Magnificent: A Life of Otto Kahn , published this year by Scribner’s.

Jim Koch founded the Boston Beer Company in 1984 with Rhonda Kallman and built it into the fourth largest brewer in the U.S. He is a fifth-generation brewer and widely considered to be a founding father of the American craft beer movement. Koch earned BA, Juris Doctor, and MBA degrees from Harvard University, and is the author of Quench Your Own Thirst: Business Lessons Learned Over a Beer or Two.

Louis W. Koenig is a professor of government at New York University. In 1981 he published a revision of his work The Chief Executive .

The late Avery Kolb held several key governmental posts in defense, Nato, and economic crisis management. A prolific author, his works include a novel and many scholarly articles on history. Our thanks to Bermuda historian Terry Tucker and Mary Skiffington at the Bermuda Archives for their help in finding illustrations.

Philip Kopper is a frequent contributor to American Heritage. A journalist, author, editor, and publisher, he has written numerous books including America’s National Gallery of Art, Colonial Williamsburg, and National Museum of Natural History, which Book World’s lead reviewer called “a museum in itself.”

Michael Korda’s Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero has just been published by Eminent Lives.

Mr. Kotker, formerly on the staff of Horizon magazine, is now on editor with the American Heritage book division.

Andrei Kozyrev is a Russian diplomat who served as the Russian Federation's Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Boris Yeltsin from 1991 to 1996. As the country's first foreign minister, Kozyrev was involved in the negotiations among Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus regarding the secession of those republics and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. From 1996 to 2000, he represented the port city of Murmansk in the Duma, a chamber of the Russian Parliament. He left Russia in 2010 to settle in the United States.

Ken and Pat Kraft are a husband-and-wife writing team from Carmel, California. They ran across Black Bart in old California newspaper files while living in Santa Rosa, doing research for their seventh book, a biography of Luther Burbank to be published soon by Appleton-Century. For further reading: Wild Oats in Eden , by Harvey J. Hansen and Jeanne Thurlow Miller (Hooper, Santa Rosa, 1962); Wells Fargo , by Edward Hungerford (Random House, 1949); Bad Company , by Joseph Henry Jackson (Harcourt, Brace, 1949).

Daniel Kramer is currently preparing a book called DEATH VALLEY LIVES.

Rita Kramer is a free-lance editor and writer. She is currently at work on a history of childhood in New York.

Robert K. Krick is the author of Conquering the Valley: Stonewall Jackson at Port Republic (William Morris, 1996).

Irving Kristol has been a key figure at such magazines as Commentary , Encounter , and The Reporter . He is currently co-editor of The Public Interest magazine and Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban Values at New York University. He presented this article as a lecture at St. John’s Church in LaFayette Square, Washington, D.C., on October 12 last. It was the first address in the American Enterprise Institute’s videotaped “Distinguished Lecture Series” on the approaching bicentennial, and it is printed here by permission of that nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization.

Lee Kruszewski Palm Desert, Calif.

Jon Kukla is the author of Mr. Jefferson’s Women and A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America, as well as many scholarly articles and reviews. He has served as the executive director of the Historic New Orleans Collection and of Red Hill-The Patrick Henry National Memorial in Charlotte County, Virginia.

Andrew Kull, a baseball enthusiast, currently lives in Paris.

Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. was a former managing editor of Life magazine who became known as a writer and producer of historical documentaries for television. With two of his sons, he created Kunhardt Productions that produced films such as "Freedom," an eight-hour series broadcast on PBS stations in 2003; "The American President," a 10-hour series shown on PBS on 2000; and "P. T. Barnum," a three-hour biography shown on the Discovery Channel in 1995. Mr. Kunhardt wrote more than a dozen books, often companion volumes to the films written with his sons.

W. S. Kuniczak was born in Poland and came to the United States in 1950. He is the author of The Thousand Hour Day , a novel about the fall of Poland in World War II. This essay has been adapted from materials in his forthcoming book, My Name Is Million: An Illustrated History of the Poles in America , to be issued by Doubleday in the spring of 1978.

Amber Kunkel 2002 Grand Prize @ Winning Essay Middle School (Grade 6) George H. Moody Middle School Richmond, Virginia Sponsoring Teacher: Glenda Hite

Karen Ordahl Kupperman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. Her book Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony was published by Rowman & Allanheld last year. She will take part in a discussion of the Roanoke voyages, the New World environment, and map making on the radio program “Soundings” to be broadcast over National Public Radio stations during the week of August 4. Also on the program will be Dr. Helen Wallis, the Map Librarian at the British Library.

Wilbur G. Kurtz, artist and historian, is the leading authority on the Battle of Atlanta. In 1934–36 he supervised the restoration of the Cyclorama painting.

Henry I. Kurtz is coauthor, with Burtt Ehrlich, of the forthcoming book The Art of the Toy Soldier and serves as a lead-soldier specialist for Phillips, the New York City auction house.