Authors

Mr. Wolff is the well-known author of In Flanders Fields (1958) and Little Brown Brother (1961). The above excerpt is from his new book, Lockout , published this month by Harper & Row.

Michael Wolraich is a journalist and the author of three books, two of them about American history: The Bishop and the Butterfly, Unreasonable Men, and Blowing Smoke. His writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, New York Magazine, CNN.com, Reuters, and Talking Points Memo. Wolraich grew up in Iowa and graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts before moving to New York City, where he has lived since 2000.

Everett Wood went on to fly for Pan Am for thirty-one years.

Nancy Wood is a renowned New Mexico author/photographer who has published 32 award winning books in the genres of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, children’s and photography. She began her photographic career in 1962 when she met the legendary Roy Stryker, director of the FSA photography project in the 30’s. The FSA employed such photographic giants as Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, Russell lee, John Vachon, and Walker Evans. Wood worked with Stryker for the nest ten years, producing the classic book, IN THIS PROUD LAND. He taught her what he called “the art of seeing”.

Andrew Wood, professor of communication studies at San Jose State University, details a small part of Americana that’s becoming a thing of the past.

Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University. He taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan before joining the faculty at Brown in 1969. He is the author of The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (1969), which won the Bancroft Prize and the John H. Dunning Prize in 1970, and The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992), which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize in 1993.

Randall B. Woods, who has written extensively about American diplomacy and race relations, is a professor of history at the University of Arkansas. Another version of this story appeared recently in American Quarterly .

Carolyn Woods Eisenberg is a historian and a professor of U.S. History and American Foreign Relations at Hofstra University. She is the author of Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia as well as Drawing the Line: the American Decision to Divide Germany, 1944-49, which won the Stuart Bernath Book Prize of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations and the Herbert Hoover Book Prize and was a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Book Prize. She has written op-eds and done media appearances for numerous outlets, including the New York Times, National Public Radio, Fox, and C-SPAN. She has been a consultant to several members of Congress and is legislative coordinator for Historians for Peace and Democracy.

Arkansas-born C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999), Sterling Professor of History at Yale, was the author of The Burden of Southern History and of Origins of the New South, which won the Bancroft prize. His book The Strange Career of Jim Crow, published by the Oxford University Press in 1955 is an excellent study of the history of segregation. Woodward is considered, along with Richard Hofstadter and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., to be one of the most influential historians of the postwar era, 1940s-1970s, both by scholars and by the general public.

Keith C. Woolley was a retired schoolteacher and coach who lived in Salt Lake City, Utah.  Mr. Wooley entered World War II on Dec. 21, 1942. He was a member of the 91st Reconnaissance Calvary, fighting in North Africa, Sicily and Italy, ending in the Po Valley as the war ended. He was part of first American troops to enter Milan, Italy after Italian partisans had killed Benito Mussolini. 

Donald Wright is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor at the State University of New York College at Cortland. His books include Oral Traditions from the Gambia and African Americans in the Colonial Era: From African Origins Through the American Revolution.

Sir Oliver Wright, a career envoy, was asked by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to come out of retirement to serve as the British ambassador in Washington in 1982. He stepped down last summer.

This article has been written by a variety of different authors.

James Wunsch is associate director of the New Jersey Committee of the Regional Plan Association.

Bertram Wyatt-Brown is a professor of history at the University of Florida and a fellow at the National Humanities Center. One of his books, Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South , was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

Andrew Wyeth’s reminiscence of his father is excerpted from An American Vision: Three Generations of Wyeth Art , to be published soon by New York Graphic Society Books/Little, Brown. The book will appear in conjunction with a traveling exhibition of the art of the Wyeth family that opened in Russia and comes to the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., on July 4. It then goes to Dallas and Chicago. The exhibition is made possible by a grant from AT&T.

A novelist, Oswald Wynd lives in Scotland.

Ben Yagoda is the movie critic of the Philadelphia Daily News . His last article for American Heritage , a history of Tin Pan Alley , appeared in the October 1983 issue.

Jonathan Yardley is a book critic and columnist for The Washington Post . He is the author of Ring: A Biography of Ring Lardner , and in 1981 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism.

Brock Yates is editor-at-large for Car and Driver ; his most recent book is the just-published Outlaw Machine: Harley-Davidson and the Search for the American Soul (Little, Brown).

Carol Lynn Yellin is a free-lance writer and an editorial consultant for the Center for Southern Folklore in Memphis, Tennessee,

Ed Yoder won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1979. He has been a columnist for The Washington Post since 1982, and before that was an editorial writer for various newspapers including the Charlotte News, the Greensboro Daily News and the Washington Star.

Nancy Yos lives in Lansing, Illinois, and writes for Commentary magazine.

After Pearl Harbor, Seaman Young was assigned to the U.S.S. Honolulu and served in the Guadalcanal and New Georgia campaigns. Later, commissioned in the Naval Reserve, he returned to action in the Korean War. Today he lives in Boston, writes military features for the Boston Globe, and is associated with a book publishing company. His memoir was originally published in Proceedings, the monthly magazine of the United States Naval Institute, and appears here by permission.

Bob Yuhnke is a writer and environmental policy analyst who currently serves as co-chair of the transportation subcommittee at the US Climate Action Network. Previously, he helped lead the fight for clean air as an assistant attorney general responsible for cleaning up steel mill pollution in Pennsylvania, creating the acid rain program as a senior attorney at Environmental Defense Fund, and contributing to the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. Yuhnke earned a degree in American History and political science from Canisius College (’65), and completed all but the dissertation for a Ph.D. in history at the University of Virginia and Columbia University before attending Yale Law School (J.D. ’72).

—Richard Zacks is the author of several history books. His latest is The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd .

Dyan Zaslowsky, whose articles have appeared in Audubon, Rocky Mountain magazine, the Denver Post, and many other magazines and newspapers, is a free-lance writer living in Evergreen, Colorado.

Hans Zeiger is the President of the Jack Miller Center, a nationwide network of scholars and teachers who are committed to advancing the core texts and ideas of the American political tradition.  In preparation for the 250th anniversary of American independence in 2026, Hans is leading an ambitious campaign to expand the pipeline of scholars who are dedicated to the teaching of America’s founding principles and history, to seed and cultivate university campus centers for the study of the American political tradition, and to expand the teaching of core civic knowledge in America’s K-12 schools.

Joshua Zeitz is a historian and the author most recently of Lincoln's God: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation and Lincoln Boys, a biography of the President's two closest aides and their many accomplishments after the Civil War, including efforts to document Lincoln's achievements.

Hiller B. Zobel is a fellow of the Society of American Historians and a retired Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court. Zobel has also published books on the both legal and historical subjects including The Boston Massacre, released in 1996, and Doctors and the Law: Defendants and Expert Witnesses, published in 1993. He was recalled from retirement in 2006 and now serves the Middlesex Superior Court. 

Donald began his career with United Press International as a reporter and went on to work for the Chicago Daily News until 1978 when he became a freelance writer full time. In 1976, he authored Laura: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder, published by Contemporary Books.

William F. Zornow, currently on leave from the faculty of Kansas State College, is the author of Kansas: A History of the Jayhawk State, of Lincoln and the Party Divided , and of numerous magazine articles on historical subjects.