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

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.

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.

COPYRIGHT © 1973 BY NIXON SMILEY

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.

“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.

Gene Smith is currently working on a biography of Gen. John J. Pershing.

Kathryn Smith is a journalist and writer with a life-long interest in FDR and his circle. She recently authored The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership That Defined a Presidency, a definite biography of the President's long-time assistant.

Bradford Smith is the author of Yankees in Paradise , published by Lippincott in 1956, in which the full story of the Yankee influence on early Hawaii is told.

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.

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.

Red Smith, the distinguished sports columnist for the New York Times , says that he has much too much respect for the game of golf to play it himself.

—Liz Smith has been a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist since the 1970s.

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).

Gaddis Smith teaches diplomatic and maritime history at Yale University. His article “The U.S. vs. International Terrorist*” appeared in our August, 1977, issue.

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.

Hedrick Smith is former Washington Bureau Chief of the New York Times and one of the original co-authors of the Pentagon Papers series. In 1972, the New York Times was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for their publication of the Pentagon Papers as “a distinguished example of meritorious public service by a newspaper through the use of its journalistic resources.” Mr. Smith is the author of numerous books including.... He currently operates an independent nonpartisan website, reclaimtheamericandream.org.

Elbert B. Smith is a member of the faculty of Iowa State College. He gathered material for this article while doing research for Magnificent Missourian , a biography of Thomas Hart Benton just published by J. B. Lippincott.

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.”

Roy C. Smith III grew up on his father’s destroyer. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1934 and served in the Navy for thirty-four years. After retiring from the Navy, he served as director of publications of the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association.

Dr. T. Burton Smith served as Ronald Reagan’s personal physician in 1985 and 1986. His memoir, White House Doctor , written with Carter Henderson, will be published this month by Madison Books.

Frederic Smoler has been teaching literature and history at Sarah Lawrence College since 1987, focusing on intellectual and literary history in Europe. He is the Adda Bozeman Chair in International Relations. In addition to his contributions to American Heritage, Smoler also writes for First of the Month, The Nation, and The Observer.

Holley Snaith is a freelance writer and historical researcher. She worked as a researcher and development assistant at the Nixon Foundation, where she helped organize two exhibits. She has also worked as a historian and archivist at the Eleanor Roosevelt Center in Hyde Park, NY where, among other tasks, she organized workshops on Eleanor Roosevelt's life. Ms. Snaith earned a B.A. in American History at the University of Florida, and a Master of Public Administration from the University of West Florida. Her website is www.holleysnaith.com/.

Dean R. Snow is professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Albany.

Richard F. Snow worked 37 years at American Heritage Magazine, serving as Editor-in-Chief for seventeen of them. Born in New York City, he got a summer job as a mail boy at American Heritage during high school, and after studying English and history at Columbia College, returned to work at the magazine full-time. Snow is the author of several books, most recently A Measureless Peril, about the Battle of the Atlantic. Previously, he authored The Iron Road: A Portrait of American Railroading and Coney Island: A Postcard Visit to the City of Fire, as well as two novels, Freelon Starbird and The Burning, and a narrative poem, "The Funny Place." Snow has also consulted for historical motion pictures—among them Glory—and documentaries, including the Burns brothers’ The Civil War and Ken Burns’s World War II documentary.

Rachel Louise Snyder is a writer, professor and public radio commentator. She is the author of the nonfiction book Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade and a novel entitled What We’ve Lost is Nothing. Her writing has appeared in the the New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Slate , Salon , the Washington Post, The Huffington Post , The Chicago Tribune, and The Washington Post,, as well as the public radio shows This American Life, Marketplace and All Things Considered. She is currently based in Washington, DC, where she is professor at American University. More of her work can be found on her website: www.globalgrit.com.

—Robert Sobel is the Laurence Stessin Professor of Business History at Hofstra University.

Carl Solberg, formerly an editor with Time Inc., is the author of Riding High: America in the Cold War and Oil Power both published by Mason/Charter.

The intriguing history of Mrs. Piper is an excerpt from Robert Somerlolt’sforthcoming book on modern occultism. The book, entitled “ Here, Mr. Splitfoot ,” will be published by The Viking Press later this month.

Ed Sorel’s update of Christian Schussele’s painting Men of Progress ran in the November 1999 issue.

—Nancy Caldwell Sorel is the author of a forthcoming history of women correspondents in World War II.

James Sorensen is a freelance writer from Martinsville, New Jersey. He is currently working on his first novel. Since the author’s visit, the National Park Service has opened the Lacy Plantation to visitors on weekends throughout the summer. At all other times, a pass and directions are available at the Chancellorsville Visitor Center.