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

Simpson, Jeffrey

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

Sims, Lydel

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

Sinclair, Andrew

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

Sinko, Mary Ellen

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

Skeel, Sharon Kay
Skelton, R. A. is member for American Heritage site since 2011.
Skelton, R. A.
Sklar, Kathryn Kish is member for American Heritage site since 2011.
Sklar, Kathryn Kish

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,

Sloan, Kay

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

Sloan, Richard
Sloan, Kim is member for American Heritage site since 2011.
Sloan, Kim

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

Sloane, Eric

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

Sloat, Warren

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.

Slotnick, Bonnie
Sloune, Eric is member for American Heritage site since 2011.
Sloune, Eric

COPYRIGHT © 1973 BY NIXON SMILEY

Smiley, Nixon

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.

Smith, Bradford

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

Smith, Hedrick

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

Smith, Gaddis

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

Smith, Howard Jay
Smith, Carol A. is member for American Heritage site since 2011.
Smith, Carol A.

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

Smith, Henry Nash

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

Smith, Gene X

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

Smith, Kathryn

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.

Smith, Red

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

Smith, Johnny
Smith, Josiah is member for American Heritage site since 2011.
Smith, Josiah
Smith, Bradley is member for American Heritage site since 2011.
Smith, Bradley

“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

Smith, Adam

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

Smith, Helena Huntington

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

Smith, Liz

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

Smith, Carl
Smith, Suzanne is member for American Heritage site since 2011.
Smith, Suzanne

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

Smith, Elbert B.

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,

Smith, Gene

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

Smith III, Roy C.

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.

Smith, M.d., T. Burton

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.

Smoler, Fredric

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

Snaith, Holley

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

Snow, Dean R.
Snow, Ricard F. is member for American Heritage site since 2011.
Snow, Ricard F.

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

Snow, Richard F.

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

Snyder, Rachel Louise

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

Sobel, Robert

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.

Solberg, Carl

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

Somerlott, Robert

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

Sorel, Nancy Caldwell

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

Sorel, Edward

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

Sorensen, James
Souter, Janet is member for American Heritage site since 2011.
Souter, Janet
Sparrow, Jack is member for American Heritage site since 2016.
Sparrow, Jack

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