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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.

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.

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).

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.

David Sherwood is an advertising copywriter who lives in Hartford, Connecticut. He has written often on the history of his town.

This article is adapted from David Shi’s forthcoming book, The Simple Life , which will be published soon by Oxford University Press. Dr. Shi is a professor of history at Davidson College in North Carolina.

Stephen Shields is a writer living in Aurora, Ohio.

Peter Shinkle is a writer, journalist, and business development consultant. Working for 19 years as a reporter at various news organizations, including most recently the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, he has covered the federal court system and also wrote investigative stories on subjects ranging from improper disposal of radioactive waste to the political influence of the payday loan industry. His latest book is Uniting America: How FDR and Henry Stimson Brought Democrats and Republicans Together. The great-nephew of Robert Culter, one of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's closest advisors, Shinkle is also the author of Ike's Mystery Man: The Secret Lives of Robert Cutler. 

William L. Shirer is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich . This account has been adapted from The Nightmare Years, 1930-1940 , which is Volume II of20th Century Journey and will be published soon by Little, Brown & Co.

Craig Shirley  has written four bestsellers on Ronald Reagan which include Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign that Changed America, Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All, and Last Act: The Final Years and Emerging Legacy of Ronald Reagan, and Reagan Rising: The Decisive Years, 1976-1980. He is also the author of Citizen Newt: The Making of a Reagan Conservative, the only authorized biography of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich's early career. Shirley is now at work on three new books on Reagan and his book, Mary Ball Washington, a definitive biography about George Washington’s mother, Mary Ball Washington

Mr. Shogan, who is a member of the staff of Newsweek , is the co-author of The Detroit Race Riot (Chilian, 1964). For further reading: Out of the Jaws of Victory , by Jules Abels (Holt, 1959); The Truman Presidency , by Cabell Phillips (Macmillan, 1966); Memoirs , by Harry S. Truman (two volumes, Doubleday, 1955–56).

Edward Shorter Ph.D., is a social historian of medicine, clinical scientist, and professor at the University of Toronto. Shorter has published widely in this field, including the histories of obstetrics and gynecology (Women’s Bodies), the doctor-patient relationship (Doctors and Their Patients), psychosomatic illness (From Paralysis to Fatigue), and sexuality (Written in the Flesh: A History of Desire). In 1991 he was appointed to the Faculty of Medicine as the Jason A. Hannah Professor in the History of Medicine. Since then he has emerged as an internationally recognized historian of psychiatry and the author of numerous books on the evolution of the discipline, including A History of Psychiatry (1997); A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry (2005); and Before Prozac (2009). Dr.

Russell Shorto is a senior scholar at the New Netherland Institute and contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine. His best-selling history of the Dutch in New York, The Island at the Center of the World, was published in 2004. Shorto's recent book, Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom, was a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize, and excerpted in the Fall 2019 issue.

This article was adapted from Legends of the American Desert: Sojourns in the Greater Southwest (Knopf), Alex Shoumatoff’s tenth book. A contributing editor at Vanity Fair , he lives with his wife and five children on a mountain in the Adirondacks of upstate New York.

David M. Shribman, executive editor emeritus of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on American political culture. He is a nationally syndicated columnist, a regular analyst for Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper, a scholar in residence at Carnegie Mellon University and a visiting professor at McGill University.   

Mr. Shuttleworth was editor of the humorous weekly Judge from the mid-twenties to the mid-thirties and later succeeded Oliver La Farge as editor of the Alliance Book Corporation. He was written several books, and has contributed to most of the popular British, Canadian, and American magazines.

Hampton Sides is an author and the editor-at-large for Outside Magazine. In addition to his journalism, Sides has written five books, including Hellhound on His Trail, Ghost Soldiers, and Blood and Thunder. Twice nominated for the National Magazine Awards for feature writing, his articles can be found in National Geographic, The New Yorker, Esquire, and The Washington Post.

Benjamin Siegel studied history at Yale University.

Fern Siegel is Deputy Editor, MediaPost. For more information.

This article is adapted from Julius Silberger, Jr.’s biography, The Will to Believe: The Life and Times of Mary Baker Eddy , published recently by Little, Brown. Dr. Silberger is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He first got interested in Mary Baker Eddy because Christian Science and psychoanalysis both arose in part from the same source—mesmerism. The Will to Believe is his first book.

Charles E. Silberman, a former editor of Fortune, is a member of the Joint Committee on Juvenile Justice Standards of the American Bar Association. His 1978 best seller, Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice , won an award from the Criminal Justice Section of the New York State Bar Association.

Robert Silverberg has been a professional writer since 1955, widely known for his science fiction and fantasy stories. He is a many-time winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards, was named to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 1999, and in 2004 was designated as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America. His books and stories have been translated into forty languages. Among his best known titles are Nightwings, Dying Inside, The Book of Skulls, and the three volumes of the Majipoor Cycle: Lord Valentine's Castle, Majipoor Chronicles, Valentine Pontifex. His collected short stories, covering nearly sixty years of work, have been published in nine volumes by Subterranean Press.

E. H. Silverman, a former staff member of True and Argosy, is now a free-lance magazine writer living in Ardsley, N. Y.

Jillian A. Sim is working on a book about her family.