Authors

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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

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. 

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

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.

“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.

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

Robert Schroder Cincinnati, Ohio

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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

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

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. 

COPYRIGHT © 1971 BY ELEANOR M. SCOTT

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).

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.

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.

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.

Harry Louis Seiden, for many years an editor and writer on foreign and domestic affairs, is vice chairman of the Fair Campaign Practices Committee, and a member of the National Committee for an Effective Congress. For further reading: A History of Presidential Elections , by Eugene H. Roseboom (Macmillan, 1957).

Robert A. Selig wrote “Private Flohr’s Other Life” in the October 1994 issue.

Mary Elizabeth Sergent has long been interested in the story of John Pelham and his classmates. She is currently engaged in writing a novel based on Pelham’s life.

William Serrin is a New York Times reporter who specializes in labor subjects.

Timothy Severin is an English writer who specializes in the history of exploration. He is the author of The Horizon Book of Vanishing Primitive Man , which was published last year by this company, and is currently at work on a book about travellers and explorers in the Far East.

Richard B. Sewall taught English at Yale from 1934 to 1976 and served as Master of Ezra Stiles College, 1959-70. His publications include The Vision of Tragedy and The Life of Emily Dickinson .

Gene Seymour is a film critic at Newsday and is the author of Jazz: The Great American Art.

Ann Seymour is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in several publications, including the Wall Street Journal and Morocco World News. In 2019 she received her masters from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at City University of New York.

William V. Shannon is on the editorial board of the New York Times . He is the author of The American Irish and of The Heir Apparent , a study of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both lniblished by Marmillan.

Professor Shapiro, who recently returned from a year in Argentina on a Fulbright fellowship, now teaches history at Michigan State University Oakland at Rochester, Michigan. He is at work on a study of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty. For further reading: Dana’s Autobiographical Sketches (The Shoe String Press, 1953); Richard Henry Dana by Charles F. Adams (Houghton Mifflin, 1890); The Flowering of New England by Van Wyck Brooks (Dutton, 1952); Studies in Classic American Literature by D. H. Lawrence (Doubleday, 1953).

Mr. Shapiro worked on the Herald Tribune ‘s rewrite desk from 1962 to 1965. He is now on the staff of The New Yorker . The major source for the last century of the Tribune ‘s history is The New York Tribune Since the Civil War , by Harry Baehr, Jr. (Dodd, 1936). Other important sources include Horace Greeley, Nineteenth Century Crusader , by Glyndon G. Van Deusen ( University of Pennsylvania Press, 1953) ; and The Life of Whitelaw Reid , by Royal Cortissoz (Scribner, 1921).

Ira Shapiro, a former Senate staffer and Clinton administration trade official, has written three books about the Senate: The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis (2012); Broken: Can the Senate Save Itself and the Country? (2018); and The Betrayal: How Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans Abandoned America (2022). Mr. Shapiro’s speeches and articles about the Senate can be found on his website, www.irashapiroauthor.com.

Ernest Sharpe, Jr., is a writer living in Austin, Texas.

Peter Shea is a writer, historian, and director of professional development at the community college level. He has written about prominent Irish Americans, educational gaming, and cutting-edge technologies in higher education. He is also the author of In the Arena, A History of American Presidential Hopefuls, which includes 34 profiles of history's most famous losing candidates for the U.S. presidency.

—Wilfrid Sheed is working on a book about the great American songwriters of the thirties and forties.

Israel Shenker, a reporter for the New York Times , interviewed Mr. Landon recently in Topeka.

Shepard’s account of his flight is adapted from Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America’s Race to the Moon by Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton, with Jay Barbree and Howard Benedict, just issued by Turner Publishing.

Nancy Shepherdson wrote about the birth of the federal income tax in our March 1989 issue.

Carol Sheppard, who lives in Boulder, Colorado, works as a dissertation editor and typist and also writes fiction.