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Paul Aron is director of publications for The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Previously, he was a reporter at The Virginia Gazette and executive editor at Simon and Schuster. He is the author of, among other

Aron, Paul

COPYRIGHT © 1973 BY BERNARD ASBELL

Asbell, Bernard

Neal Asbury is a global entrepreneur, chief executive of the Legacy Companies, and the host of the nationally syndicated weekly radio talk show Neal Asbury's Made in America, produced by Radio America. He is

Asbury, Neal

Aaron Asher (1929-2008) was one of the prominent literary editors during the 20th century, editing works by Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Arthur Miller, and President Lyndon B. Johnson. Born in East Prussia, Asher

Asher, Aaron

William Ashworth, who was born and reared ten airline miles from the Snake River, is a free-lance writer and editor of the Sierra Club’s Northwest Chapter newsletter, the Northwest Conifer, aswellas chairman

Ashworth, William

Steve Atkinson is a writer and photographer based in Chestertown, Maryland, and the editor of the websites Delmarva Crier and Local in Kent.

Atkinson, Stephen G.

Rick Atkinson is the author of dozens of best-selling books on American military history, including The Long Gray Line, a narrative saga about the West Point class of 1966; Crusade, a narrative history of the

Atkinson, Rick
Atlee, Earl is member for American Heritage site since 2020.
Atlee, Earl

A frequent writer for American Heritage, Louis Auchincloss was a lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. He is best known for his finely wrought novels exploring the private lives of America's East Coast

Auchincloss, Louis
Augur, Helen is member for American Heritage site since 2011.
Augur, Helen

Ken Auletta is a regular contributor to the The New Yorker . His most recent book, The Underclass , has just been published by Random House.

Auletta, Ken

Phillip H. Ault is associate editor of the South Bend (Indiana) Tribune and the author of, among other works, a book on the opening of communications to the West entitled Wires West (Dodd, Mead, 1974

Ault, Phillip H.

Gillian Elise Avery (1926–2016) was a British children's novelist and historian of childhood education and children's literature. She won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1972, for A Likely Lad.

Avery, Gillian

James Axtell is a professor emeritus of history at the College of William and Mary. His specialty is early North American history.  He has also taught at Princeton, Yale and at Sarah Lawrence.

Axtell is

Axtell, James

Edward L. Ayers has served as the president of the University of Richmond since 2007, having previously served as the Buckner W. Clay Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at

Ayers, Edward L.

A graduate of Princeton University, Colonel A. C. M. Azoy retired from the Army in 1951 after serving in both world wars. His assignments included chief of the Occupational History Branch of the Army's Office

Azoy, A. C. M.

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