Authors

Nancy Wilson Ross, the author of several distinguished novels, has also written a study of feminine pioneers of the 1800’s, Westward the Women, and a historical and sociological study of the Pacific Northwest, Farthest Reach .

Clinton Rossiter, professor of government at Cornell, is serving as director of studies in American Communism sponsored by the Fund for the Republic. He is author of Seedtime of the Republic , 1953, and Conservatism in America , published last spring.

Paul Rosta is a free-lance writer who lives in Los Angeles. He writes frequently about various aspects of American history and culture.

Mark Rotella, the author of Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria , is at work on a book on the great Italian-American pop singers.

David J. Rothman is a member of the history jacuity at Columbia University and author of The Discovery of the Asylum : Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic (Little, Brown, 1971).

Barbara Rotunda (1942-2005) was an associate professor of English at the University of Albany and a pioneering educator and scholar.  She was educated at Cornell and Syracuse Universities and started one of the countries first university writing workshops.  Rotundo was widely respected for her work on 19th century Boston and historical studies of graveyards and gravestones.  Her work has appeared in many publications including American Heritage.  

Sharon Roualet is the School Librarian at Edgewood High School in Ellettsville, IN.

John Rousmaniere, the author of The Annapolis Book of Seamanship and several works on ocean racing and the America’s Cup, is currently writing an illustrated history of Columbia University.

Richard Halworth Rovere often reports from Washington in his capacity as a staff writer for The New Yorker . Among his books are Affairs of State: The Eisenhower Years and The American Establishment .

Edward Leon Rowny (April 3, 1917 – December 17, 2017) was a U.S. Army Lieutenant General. He was a commanding officer in World War II and Korea, a military advisor to five U.S. presidents and a negotiator on the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START)

Alfred Leslie Rowse(1903 – 1997), known professionally as A. L. Rowse and to his friends and family as Leslie, was a prolific Cornish historian. He is perhaps best known for his poetry about Cornwall and his work on Elizabethan England. Rowse wrote some 100 books, including the bestseller, the autobiographical A Cornish Childhood, that sold nearly half a million copies worldwide. Rowse was also famous for his research on Shakespeare and his theories on the bard;s sexuality.

Frank Rowsome, Jr., the author of this cheerful bit of Americana, is now head of the Technical Publications section of NASA. The Verse by the Side of the Road is adapted from a book of the same title recently published by the Stephen Greene Press. COPYRIGHT © 1965 BY FRANK ROWSOME, JR.

Ephraim Rubenstein is an artist and an instructor in drawing at the Art Students League of New York.

Hughes Rudd, whose service in the “Maytag Messerschmitt” earned him a Silver Star, six air medals, and a number of other awards, has been a radio and television correspondent for both CBS News and, currently, ABC News. He also is the author of My Escape From the CIA (And Other Improbable Events) , published in 1966.

Michael Ruderman is an author and acclaimed lecturer on New England history. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts, close by the routes traveled by Paul Revere and William Dawes. Mr. Ruderman graduated from Harvard College with a degree in history and has pursued graduate study at UMass Lowell. 

Rudin is the publisher of The Library of America, a nonprofit publisher whose mission is to foster greater appreciation and pride in America’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, authoritative editions of America’s best and most significant writing. Mr. Rudin writes on American history, literature, music, and popular culture for American Heritage and Raritan magazines. He created, hosts, and introduces the ongoing program of readings “Great New York Writers in Great New York Places.” He has directed several NEH-funded publishing and national public programming initiatives, among them the Isaac Bashevis Singer Centennial (2004) and Lincoln in American Memory: Exploring the Life and Legacy of Our Sixteenth President (2009). He serves on the Board of Directors of The Great Books Foundation and The New York Festival of Song. Mr.

Timothy C. Ruse is an independent historian and the Director of Georgetown Hospital's Sleep Disorders Center, who also wrote We Volunteered: A Biography of Carl Robert Ruse, Survivor of the Bataan Death March and Prisoner of the Japanese 1942-1945 (Timothy C. Ruse, 2011).

Preston Russell, a pathologist in Savannah, Georgia, is completing a book about the personal relationship between Lafayette and Washington.

John Russell, an art critic for The New York Times , is the author of many books about art and artists.

Franklin Russell is a free-lance writer who frequently reports on ecological matters. He is currently working on a book dealing with catastrophes of natural history that have occurred throughout the world.

Francis Russell, a frequent contributor, is the author of Adams: An American Dynasty , a book recently published by American Heritage.

In 1866 a remarkable book appeared, The Atlantic Telegraph , by William Howard Russell, one of the most eminent newspaper correspondents of his day. He had covered both the Crimean War and the American Civil War for the London Times , and he was the only reporter on board the Great Eastern during the cable-laying. Russell’s book is illustrated with paintings by the artist Robert Dudley, who was also on board. On the following pages are reproduced a selection of the illustrations Dudley prepared for Russell’s narrative.

For over twenty years, Gus Russo has been an investigative reporter, author of six non-fiction books, and writer and/or producer of many national and international documentaries for major networks. His books have received Book of the Month Club and History Book Club Featured Selections, three have been optioned for films, and one, The Outfit was a Pulitzer nominee. His October 2008 book, Brothers in Arms: The Kennedys, the Castros, and the Politics of Murder," was named Winner of the 2008 History Prize by the New York Book Festival. In April 2011, his memoir Boomer Days was published.

Darrett B. Rutman, assistant professor of Early American History at the University of Minnesota, is currently at work on a book about Boston during John Winthrop’s lifetime. For further reading: The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop , by Edmund S. Morgan (Little, Brown, 1958).

John M. Ryan was captured while he was a messenger for Company G, 334th Regiment, 84th Division, in the battle for the Siegfried Line. Today he lives in North Carolina.

The historian Richard C. Ryder was a consultant to the Academy of Natural Sciences on its new Dinosaur Hall.

Morley Safer, correspondent for CBS, is the author of Flashbacks: On Returning to Vietnam.

Harrison E. Salisbury has spent many years as a correspondent in the Soviet Union, beginning in World War II, and is the author of The Nine Hundred Days: The Siege of Leningrad and many other works on Russia. His latest book is The New Emperors: China in the Era of Mao and Deng , published by Little, Brown in February.

Victor Salwtore, a retired newspaper editor, is writinga book about the Hall of Fame at Cooperstown .

British-born Ivan Sanderson began writing about zoology and natural history in Animal Treasure in 1935, and has done several books since, many of which he has illustrated himself. His most recent work is Follow the Whale (Little, Brown, 1956). For further reading: The Sea Hunters , by Edouard A. Starckpole (Lippincott, 1955;; Whaling Wives , by E. M. Whiting and H. B. Hough (Houghton Mifflin, 1953); Yankee Whalers in the South Seas , by A. B. C. Whipple (Doubleday, 1954).

Ivan Sandrof, a native of Massachusetts, is a staff feature writer for the Worcester Sunday Telegram and a member of the executive board fo the Worcester Historical Society.

A former reporter for The Seattle Times Post-Intelligencer, Steve Sanger co-authored Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford with Dr. Ferenc Szasz, Dr. Bruce Hevly, and Dr. Craig Wollner in 1995. Sanger's work as a freelance reporter has been published in The Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press. 

C. W. Nimitz Admiral, U.S. Navy

EDITOR’S NOTE: Several months ago, we received a cache of little-known photographs through the courtesy of California historian Richard Steven Street. They were taken by Claude (“Pop”) Lavai, a long-time resident of California’s San Joaquin Valley (see Mr. Street’s profile on page 60), and documented life in and around Fresno in the teens and twenties. Since William Saroyan, the Pulitzer prizewinning playwright ( The Time of Your Life ), novelist, and short-story writer, was born in Fresno and spent much of his boyhood there during those years, it occurred to us to send him a selection of the photographs and ask him to comment on them from his own store of memory.

—Andrew Sarris is the author most recently of You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet: The American Talking Film—History and Memory, 1927-1949 .

Richard Sassaman, who writes frequently about archaeology and anthropology, lives in Havertown, Pennsylvania.

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Born and reared in Pittsburgh, Mr. Saudek spent five years as an editor at KDKA, the first commercial radio station. He was later an executive at ABC, and the Ford foundation. As an independent television producer, he was responsible for the Omnibus television show and for Profiles in Courage, a series based on John F. Kennedy's book, which recently received a Peabody award.

Richard Saunders is co-author of Living With Wicker (Crown Publishers, 1992).

Mrs. Saunders, a former research chemist and science editor whose interests now have turned to history, is at work on a biography of Ellen Axson Wilson, the President ‘s first wife.

Martha Saxton is a professor of history and women's and gender studies at Amherst College. She has written biographies for actress Jayne Mansfield and author Louisa May Alcott, and is also the author of Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America. Her most recent book, The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington, was a finalist for the 2020 George Washington Book Prize. 

Antonin Scalia was an Associate Justice of the U.S Supreme Court from 1986 until his death in 2016. He was born in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1936. He married Maureen McCarthy and they had nine children. Justice Scalia received his A.B. from Georgetown University and the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and his LL.B. from Harvard Law School, and was a Sheldon Fellow of Harvard University from 1960–1961. He was in private practice in Cleveland, Ohio from 1961–1967, a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia from 1967–1971, and a Professor of Law at the University of Chicago from 1977–1982, and a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University and Stanford University. 

Mr. Scheer is the editor of Private Yankee Doodle , the diary of a Revolutionary soldier. He wislies to tliank for their co-operation Dr. Francis S. Ronalds, superintendent of the Morrisdown National Historical Park; Norman C. Fisher, formerly superintendent of Washington Crossing Slate Park; and Ann Hatches Hutton, author of Portrait of Patriotism . Portraits of Leutze and Whittrcdge are from the National Academy of Design (photograph of Leutze portrait, courtesy the Frick Art Reference Library).

Tony Scherman is the author of Backbeat: Earl Palmer’s Story (Smithsonian; Da Capo paperback), about one of the fathers of rock ’n’ roll.