Authors

Ray Locker is the author of Haig's Coup: How Richard Nixon's Closest Aide Forced Him from Office and Nixon's Gamble: How a President’s Own Secret Government Destroyed His Administration. Previously, he was Washington enterprise editor at USA TODAY, where he supervised coverage of the White House, military, money in politics and health care.  His work as a reporter and editor has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes.

Heather Lockman is a freelance writer who continues to volunteer at the Bigelow House Museum and frequently teaches workshops on historic home preservation. The Bigelow House is open on weekends from 1:00 to 3:00 P.M. For more information, call 360-753-1215.

James L. Loewen is a sociologist, professor, and author whose best-known work is Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, published in 1995. It has sold a reported 1,500,000 copies. Loewen taught race relations at the University of Vermont for 20 years before starting a visiting professorship teaching sociology at the Catholic University of America in 1997. More information is at his website: Visit sundown.tougaloo.edu/

Andy Logon is a New Yorker writer who, incidentally, voted happily for both Jack and Bobby Kennedy.

Mr. Lomask was the author of Beauty and the Traitor: The Story of Mrs. Benedict Arnold. Other books by Mr. Lomask include The Curé of Ars (1958), John Carroll, Bishop and Patriot (1956), St. Augustine and His Search for Faith (1957), and St. Isaac and the Indians (1956). General Phil Sheridan and the Union Cavalry (1959), is in Kennedy's American Background Books; he also coauthored St. Thomas and the Preaching Beggars (1957).

Alfred F. Loomis, associate editor of Yachting magazine and of the English publication Yachts and Yachting , has been writing about sailing since 1912. Among his many books are Ocean Racing and (with Herbert L. Stone) Millions for Defense , a history of the America’s Cup.

—Phillip Lopate’s latest essay collection is a volume of film criticism, Totally, Tenderly, Tragically . He teaches at Hofstra University.

Enrique Hank Lopez is a free-lance writer as well as an international lawyer. He is currently working on a book about Harvard University.

The Titanic is Walter Lord’s hobby and passion; he has been in touch with over 100 survivors, rescuers and others connected with the disaster and sifted out all the conflicting evidence and legend. On such research he has based this article and his book, A Night To Remember (just published by Henry Holt), which should remain a classic of the sea. He is a Yale law graduate and an advertising executive.

Mr. Lord is a British writer-producer currently working in New York City for NBC-TV News. He wrote and produced a documentary called Four Days to Omaha , which was televised by NBC in 1968 and which will be repeated this year. In World War II he was an infantry platoon commander with a British division and fought in Normandy.

Robert Love is the Managing Editor of Rolling Stone.

Sylvia Lovegren is the author of Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads (Hungry Minds, 1995).

Frances Low, wife of New York City Councilman Robert Low, is a freelance writer living in New York. Among her sources for this article was Empire State, A Pictorial Record of Its Construction , by Vernon H. Bailey (W. E. Rudge, 1931). For further reading on Lewis Hine: Judith Mara Gutman’s Lewis Hine and the American Social Conscience (Walker, 1967).

David Lowe, a former editor of AMERICAN HERITAGE , is now a free-lance writer and frequent contributor to our pages. He is currently at work on a book for Houghton Mifflin about great Chicago architecture that has been destroyed.

Sara Lowen is the associate editor of Baltimore magazine.

David M. Ludlum is a meteorologist and the author of many books and articles on weather. His most recent, The Nantucket Weather Book , has just been published by the Nantucket Historical Association.

Claire Lui works as an editorial consultant for both print and online resources, in addition to being a writer. A graduate of Columbia University, where she studied History, Lui has also worked as a food and literary critic, and taught English in China.

John Lukacs served as a Professor of History at Chestnut Hill College from 1947 to 1994, and is the noted author of over 30 books including:Outgrowing Democracy: A History of the United States in the Twentieth Century, The Legacy of the Second World War and The Future of History in 2011.

Paul Lukacs is chair of the English Department at Loyola College in Maryland and the wine columnist for the Washington Times .

Eric Lund was a long-time editor of the Chicago Daily News, where he served as assistant managing editor.

Betty Mussell Lundy is a freelance writer living in Illinois.

Michael Luo is the Executive Editor of The New Yorker and the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.

—John Lukacs is the author, most recently, of The Hitler of History and A Thread of Years .

Stuart Lutz is a writer living in New Jersey. The Flag Code is available on the Internet at www.usflag.org/us.code36.html .

Susan Elizabeth Lyman, a native New Yorker, is Associate in the Education Department of the Museum of the City of New York. She has lectured and written many booklets on the city’s history and is co-author with Andreas Feininger of The Face of New York , a photographic and text study.

From the book, The Tastemakers , copyright 1949, 1953, 1954 by J. Russell Lynes, published by Harper & Brothers. Russell Lynes, Managing Editor of Harper’s Magazine , is the author of Snobs and Guests as well as The Tastemakers , in which this article appears. This current best-seller discusses the evolution of American taste in the past century.

Catherine Lynn is the author of Wallpaper in America , recently published by W. W. Norton & Company.

Peter Lyon (1915-1996) was a New York-based free-lance writer and a veteran contributor to AMERICAN HERITAGE. His first book, Success Story: The Life and Times of S. S. McClure, is a biography of his late grandfather. Throughout his career Mr. Lyons served as President of the Radio Writers Guild and wrote many pieces for radio shows before publishing several well-received biographies.

Thomas Macaren is a freelance writer and is currently at work on a book about films of the Cold War era.

Neill Macaulay (1935-2007) was a writer, professor and a former lieutenant in Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement Army. Macaulay authored books including: The Sandino Affair (1967), A Rebel in Cuba (1970). After leaving Cuba, Macaulay taught Latin American history at the University of Florida for twenty years before retiring as professor emeritus in 1986.

Mr. Maccracken, who is a lawyer in Cleveland, was the author of “Althea and the Judges” in our June, 1963, issue.

J. Tevere MacFadyen is the author of Gaining Ground: The Renewal of America’s Small Farms .

A physicist, Charles Mack has worked for NA TO, the Mitre Corporation, and, for twenty years, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a specialist in Soviet and Chinese technology.

Mr. Mackintosh is a historian with the National Park Service in Washington, D.C.  He has written extensivly for the National Park Service and has published material on the history of the service itself, and on the histories of Rock Creek Park in D.C. and the Assateague Island Seashore.  

Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982) won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1933 and 1953.  He was a veteran of World War I, former Librarian of Congress, and assistant secretary of state and cultural diplomat. As the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, he occupied the oldest chair at Harvard, one first held by John Quincy Adams.

A recipient of many literary prizes and awards, Mr. MacLennan is one of Canada’s best-known writers as well as a professor at McGiIl University in Montreal. All of his novels, among which The Watch That Ends the Night (1959) and Two Solitudes (1945) are perhaps the most distinguished, have profoundly Canadian themes. For further reading: Canada: A Modern History , by J. Bartlet Brebner (University of Michigan Press, 1960); Colony to Nation: A History of Canada , by Arthur M. Lower (Longmans, Green, 1946); The French Canadians, 1760–1945 , by Mason Wade (Macmillan, 1955).