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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.

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

Benjamin Siegel studied history at Yale University.

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.

—Margaret Staats Simmons, the former editor of Travel Holiday magazine, is the director of new media for Fairchild Publications.

Alan Simpson was a Republican senator from Wyoming from 1979 to 1997. He served as Senate whip from 1985 to 1995, and majority whip from 1985 to 1987.  

Jeffrey Simpson, a member of the staff ‘of Horizon magazine, has spent all twentysix summers of his life at Chautauqua.

Lydel Sims is a feature writer on the Memphis Commercial Appeal . He has collaborated on a new book about World War II submarine operations, soon to be published by Little, Brown under the title War Fish .

Andrew Sinclair, a novelist and former screenwriter, is the author of The Emancipation of the American Woman , as well as biographies of Dylan Thomas and Warren G. Harding. Jack, his biography of Jack London, will be published by Harper & Row in the autumn of this year.

Mary Ellen Sinko is the assistant curator of the Forbes Magazine Collection.

Sharon Kay Skeel is a free-lance writer living in Philadelphia.

Raleigh Ashlin Skelton was Superintendent of the Map Room of the British Museum from 1950 until his retirement in 1967, and held many positions with institutions in the cartographic field.

Richard Sloan, a television engineer, is president of the Lincoln Group of New York and a contributing editor of The Lincoln College Newsletter .

This article is adapted from a book by the two authors, Looking Far North: The Harriman Expedition to Alaska, 1899 , soon to be published by the Viking Press. William H. Goetzmann is a writer and historian, and Kay Sloan teaches at the University of Texas in Austin.

Eric Sloane is an artist living in a Brookfield, Connecticut, farmhouse built in 1782. He has written and illustrated many books, including the recent American Barns and Covered Bridges . He is currently finishing Our Vanishing Landscape , to be published this fall.

Warren Sloat is an American author who has written two books and co-authored a third. His most recent book, 1929: America Before The Crash, chronicles the contrast between the 1920s and the 1930s due to the economic depression. In 2002, Sloat completed A Battle for the Soul of New York: Tammany Hall, Police Corruption, Vice and Reverend Charles Parkhurst's Crusade Against Them, 1892-1895.

Shirley Abbott’s memoir, The Bookmaker’s Daughter , will be published by Ticknor & Fields in July. Bonnie Slotnick is an editor and a cookbook collector.

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Helena Huntington Smith wrote numerous books and articles about the West. In 1937, she recorded the memories of E.C. Abbott, an elderly cowpuncher who was one of the last survivors of the Great Trail Drives of the 1860s and 1870s.  Known to cowmen across the West as "Teddy Blue," he came up the trail from Texas with long-horned cattle to stock the northern ranges, punched cows in Montana when there wasn't a fence in the territory, and married a daughter of pioneer stockman Granville Stuart.  Smith published his memories in her 1976 cowboy classic, We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher. Other books by Helen Huntington Smith include The War on Powder Ridge and A Bride Goes West.

Carl Smith is the Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of English and American Studies and Professor of History, Emeritus, at Northwestern University. His books include Chicago and the American Literary Imagination, 1880-1920; Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman; The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City; and City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago. His most recent title is Chicago's Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City, published by Grove Atlantic.

Henry Nash Smith, the author of Virgin Land and several books on Mark Twain, is professor of English at the University of California and literary editor of the Twain estate. For further reading: Mark Twain’s America , by Bernard De Voto (Houghton Mifflin, 1951); The Ordeal of Mark Twain , by Van Wyck Brooks (Meridian, 1955).

“Adam Smith” is a pseudo-name that author George J. W. Goodman adopted while writing his 1976 book, The Money Game. It remained a number one bestseller for over a year and was called "a modern classic” by Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Samuelson. Goodman pioneered a style of financial writing that made Wall Street more understandable and accessible to the typical investor. Of his many books include Supermoney, Paper Money, Powers of Mind, and The Roaring Eighties. Goodman was a member of the Editorial Board of The New York Times, an editor of Esquire Magazine, and was a founding member of New York Magazine where he nurtured such writers as Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, and Gloria Steinem.

Howard Jay Smith is the author of Beethoven In Love; Opus 139 and Meeting Mozart: From the Secret Diaries of Lorenzo Da Ponte, a novel inspired by that missing section of Da Ponte’s memoirs. Smith serves on the board of directors of the Santa Barbara Symphony and is a member of the American Beethoven Society.

Johnny Smith is an assistant professor in the History Department at Georgia Tech. His research focuses on the history of sports and American culture. In 2018 Smith co-authored A Season in the Sun: The Rise of Mickey Mantle with Randy Roberts. The book traces Mantle's ascendance as an icon of the 1950s and baseball's place in American culture.

Gene Smith was a notable popular historian and long-time contributor to American Heritage who passed away in 2012 at the age of 83. Smith wrote many biographies of American political and military leaders, including the 1964 New York Times bestseller When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson. Of Mr. Smith’s 19 books, perhaps the next best-known is The Shattered Dream: Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression (1970). He portrayed Hoover as an honest, caring president trapped by circumstances beyond his powers, and also by his own reserve and cautiousness. “President Hoover could not bear to see the bread lines or the thin children so remindful of Europe in the war,” Mr. Smith wrote. “He never went to the relief stations, never turned his head in the car to look at the men selling apples on the street corners.”