Authors

Over the last 72 years, many of the preeminent writers of the time wrote for American Heritage. Not only leading historians, but respected authors such as Malcolm Cowley, John Dos Passos, Archibald McLeish, and Wallace Stegner.

Ryan, John M.

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.

Ryder, Richard C.

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

Safer, Morley

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

Saldana, Gail

Saldana, Gail is member for American Heritage site since 2016. More >>

Salisbury, Harrison E.

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.

Salvatore, Victor

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

Sanders, Don

Sanders, Don is member for American Heritage site since 2011. More >>

Sanderson, Ivan T.

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).

Sandrof, Ivan

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.

Sanger, Steve

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. 

Sard, Ellis

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

Saroyan, William

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.

Sarris, Andrew

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

Sassaman, Richard

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

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Saudek, Robert

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.

Saunders, Frances W.

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.

Saunders, Richard

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

Sax, Joseph L.

Sax, Joseph L. is member for American Heritage site since 2011. More >>

Saxton, Martha

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. 

Scalia, Antonin

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. 

Scheer, George F.

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).

Scherman, Tony

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

Schick, James B. M.

Schick, James B. M. is member for American Heritage site since 2011. More >>

Schickel, Richard

Richard Schickel is a film critic and documentary film maker and contributor who has written for Time and The Los Angeles Times Book Review, among other publications. In his time as a critic. Schickel has made over 30 documentaries, covering Charlie Chaplin, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and World War II cameramen. For his other works, he has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been awarded the British Film Institute Book Prize, the Maurice Bessy prize, and the William K. Everson Award. 

Schiff, Stacy

Stacy Schiff is an American historian and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. She is known for her critically acclaimed biographies of major historical figures, including Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), Cleopatra: A Life, The Witches: Salem, 1692, and The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams. Schiff has received several awards for her works, including the Pulitzer Prize for Véra and the National Book Award for Cleopatra. Before becoming an author, Schiff worked as an editor and freelance writer. Her writing has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Schiff has also been a guest on numerous radio and television shows, including The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and NPR's Fresh Air.

Schlesinger, Marian Cannon

Marian Cannon Schlesinger was a painter and author living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was the wife of Kennedy aide Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Schlesinger, Elizabeth Bancroft

Elizabeth B. Schlesinger (Mrs. Arthur Schlesinger, Sr.) has long been a commentator in magazines and scholarly journals on the role of women in American life. She is the wife of one noted historian and the mother of another.

Schlesinger, Arthur

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (1917-2007) was a historian, author, and political adviser who served as Special Assistant to President John Kennedy from 1961 to 1963. Schlesinger won the 1946 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Age of Jackson. In 1966, Schlesinger won another Pulitzer Prize for A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. He was honored with a National Humanities Medal and a Four Freedoms Award before his death in 2007.

Schoemer, Karen

Karen Schoemer writes about modern popular music and has written for The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, and other noted newspapers and magazines. She spent five years as a pop-music critic for Newsweek, and published Great Pretenders: My Strange Love Affair With 50s Pop Music in 2007. 

Schonauer, David

— David Schonauer is the editor in chief of American Photo magazine.

Schonberg, Harold C.

Senior music critic of the New York Times , Mr. Schonberg is a Pulitzer Prize winner and the author of many books on the history of music.

Schorer, Mark

“I know more about the life of Sinclair Lewis,” so Mark Schorer has written, “day by day, sometimes hour by hour, than he himself could possibly have known or than I know of my own past.” For nine years Professor Schorer has immersed himself in his subject; the result, Sinclair Lewis: An American Life , is a monumental biography which McGraw-Hill will publish in October and from which this article is drawn. Professor Schorer, one of our most distinguished literary critics, teaches at the University of California.

Schrank, Joseph

Joseph Schrank is currently working on a book about his days in Hollywood.

Schroder, Robert

Robert Schroder Cincinnati, Ohio

Schudson, Michael

Michael Schudson, a professor of communications at the University of California at San Diego, is the author of The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life , published last year by Free Press.

Schultz, Fred

Fred Schultz serves as managing editor of Proceedings magazine, a U.S. Naval Institute publication. Schultz has worked for the U.S. Naval Institute since 1989 and previously served as editor-in-chief for Naval History magazine. 

Schultz, Nancy Lusignan

Nancy Lusignan Schultz is a retired professor of English and author whose work focuses on the history of U.S. Catholicism, American Studies, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Salem, Massachusetts. She is author of several books, including the award-winning Fire and Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834 (Free Press, 2000), and Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle: The Prince, the Widow, and the Cure that Shocked Washington City (Yale UP, 2011 and the reprint edition of 2015). Since 1983 she was a faculty member at Salem State University, including Professor Emeritus from 2020 to her retirement.

Schutzer, A. I.

A.I. Schutzer is a free-lance writer whose work has appeared in many national magazines. He published Great Civil War Escapes (1967), which recounted true stories of escapes from Libby Prison in Virginia, Elmira Prison in New York, and other lockups. He has also published numerous juvenile books.

Schwartz, Stephan A.

Stephan A. Schwartz is a writer, television producer, and the Senior Samueli Fellow for Brain, Mind and Healing of the Samueli Institute. Schwartz is a columnist for Explore magazine, and has led mapping and archaelogical journeys all over the world.

Schwartz, Alan

Alan Schwartz is the senior writer of Baseball America magazine and the author of The Numbers Game: Baseball’s Lifelong Fascination With Statistics .

Schwarz, Frederic

Schwarz, Frederic is member for American Heritage site since 2011. More >>

Schwarz, Alan

—Alan Schwarz is a columnist for Baseball America magazine and a frequent contributor to The New York Times .

Schweizer, Peter

PETER SCHWEIZER is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen books. Currently he is the president of the Government Accountability Institute, and from 1999 to 2015 he was a research fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University. He has also served as a member of the Ultraterrorism Study Group at the U.S. government’s Sandia National Laboratory. 

Scott, Anne Firor

Anne Firor Scott, a former lecturer in history at the University of North Carolina, is at work on a biography of Jane Addams. She is currently in Italy, where her husband is a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Bologna. For further reading: Twenty Years at Hull-House , by Jane Addams (Macmillan, 1959); Altgeld’s America , by Ray Ginger (Funk & Wagnalls, 1958); A Centennial Reader , edited by Emily Cooper Johnson (Macmillan, 1960); Jane Addams , by James W. Linn (Appleton-Century, 1935); Lords of the Levee , by Lloyd Wendt and Herman Kogan (Bobbs-Merrill, 1943).

Scott, Winfield Townley

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Scull, Penrose

Penrose Scull, author of many articles on business and business history, is currently working on a book about the early history of selling in the United States.

Sears, Stephen W.

Stephen W. Sears is an American historian who specializes in the Civil War. A graduate of Oberlin College, Sears has written Chancellorsville, Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam, Controversies and Commanders: Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac, and, most recently, Gettysburg, released in 2003.He was employed as editor of the Educational Department at the American Heritage Publishing Company.

Seeley, Clifton

Seeley, Clifton is member for American Heritage site since 2016. More >>

Seiber, Lones

A native Tennessean, Lones Selber was seven at the time of the events he describes here. He watched the battle from the corner of White and Washington streets. The editors wish to thank Thomas J. Baker, Jr., whose study of the McMinn County political machine provided valuable additional information.