Geoffrey C. Ward
Autor de The Civil War: An Illustrated History
Sobre El Autor
Geoffrey C. Ward is an author, historian, and screenwriter. He has written for numerous documentary films, and has won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Francis Parkman Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Geoffrey Champion Ward was born in 1940 in Newark, Ohio. He was a mostrar más graduate of Oberlin College in 1962. He is an editor, author, historian and writer of scripts for American history documentaries for public television. He is the author or co-author of 18 books, including five companion books to the documentaries he has written. He is the winner of seven Emmy Awards. He was the founding editor of Audience Magazine (1970-1973) and the editor of American Heritage Magazine (1977-1982). His 1989 biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, A First-class Temperament: the Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The principal writer of the television mini-series The Civil War, Ward has collaborated with its co-producer Ken Burns on most of the documentaries he has made since, including Jazz, Baseball, The War and Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. This work has earned him five Emmy Awards. He also won two Emmys for the American Experience series, including The Kennedys, in 1992 and TR,The Story of Theodore Roosevelt in 1996. His script for the documentary Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, won the Writers Guild of America Award in 2005 and the accompanying book won the 2006 William Hill Sports Book of the Year and the Anisfield-Wolf Award for best biography. His works include The War: An Intimate History, Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz can Change Your Life and Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson. His title The Roosevelts: An Intimate History made The New York Times Best Seller List in 2014. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Library of Congress
Obras de Geoffrey C. Ward
Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley (1995) 108 copias
A Disposition to Be Rich: How a Small-Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash,… (2012) 89 copias
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony [1999 Documentary] (1999) — Screenwriter — 49 copias
American Experience: Abraham & Mary Lincoln: A House Divided [2001 TV episode] (2001) — Screenwriter — 20 copias
Lincoln's Thought and the Present: Lincoln and the Law, Lincoln and His Family, Lincoln and the Right to Rise, Lincoln… (1978) 6 copias
Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham & The American City [2010 film] (2010) — Screenwriter — 4 copias
Lincoln and the right to rise 2 copias
Lincoln : slavery and civil rights 2 copias
Before the Trumpet 2 copias
Audience: Mar.-Apr. 1971 1 copia
Hard Looks at Hidden History 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes (1985) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones — 504 copias
I Wish I'd Been There: Twenty Historians Bring to Life Dramatic Events That Changed America (2006) — Contribuidor — 265 copias
Kindred Souls: The Devoted Friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and Dr. David Gurewitsch (2002) — Introducción — 67 copias
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 1989 (1988) — Author "In Review: Civil War and Nuclear War" — 28 copias
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1988 (1988) — Author "In Review: Vann's Private War" — 23 copias
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1989 (1989) — Author "FDR's Western Front Idyll" — 17 copias
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 1990 (1990) — Author "In Review: Roosevelt and Marshall" — 15 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Ward, Geoffrey C.
- Nombre legal
- Ward, Geoffrey Champion
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1940-11-30
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Newark, Ohio, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Newark, Ohio, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
New York, New York, USA - Educación
- Oberlin College (BA|1962)
- Ocupaciones
- editor
screenwriter
historian - Relaciones
- Ward, Diane Raines (wife)
Ward, Frederick Champion (father)
Ward, Duira Rachel (mother nee Baldinger)
Burns, Ken (collaborator) - Organizaciones
- Encyclopedia Britannica
American Heritage
Florentine Films
PBS - Premios y honores
- William Hill Sports Book of the Year (2006)
Friend of History Award (2006)
Writers Guild of America Award (2005)
Anisfield-Wolf Award (2005)
National Book Critics Circle Award (1989)
Francis Parkman Prize (1990) (mostrar todos 7)
Emmy Award (7x) - Agente
- Carl Brandt
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- Obras
- 77
- También por
- 14
- Miembros
- 7,923
- Popularidad
- #3,061
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 66
- ISBNs
- 235
- Idiomas
- 7
- Favorito
- 2