All Contributors

—Adam Goodheart, a fellow at the C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, is at work on a book about the antebellum South.

John Steele Gordon has been a frequent contributor to American Heritage and the Wall Street Journal. He is the author most recently of An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power (

Annette Gordon-Reed is the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History, Professor of History and Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She was

Hays Gorey is a correspondent with the Washington bureau of Time magazine and is the author of Nader (Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., 1975).

Stephanie Gorton is a writer and editor who has written for The New Yorker, Smithsonian, The Paris Review Daily, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Toast, The Millions, and other publications. Her latest book is 

George Goss was the assistant editor and director of video production at American Heritage from 2019-2020. In 2017, he graduated from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. Since

Ron Goulart is a science fiction novelist and the author of Comic Book Encyclopedia .

Stephen Jay Gould’s newest book is Leonardo’s Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms (Harmony).

Leslie Course, who writes often about jazz, lives in New York City.

William Craebner is a professor of history at the State University of New York at Fredonia. His book A History of Retirement was published by Yale University Press in 1980.

Professor of history at Columbia University, Dr. Graff is the author of several books and of the article “A Heartbeat Away,” a survey of the Vice Presidency in the August, 1964, issue of AMERICAN HERITAGE

Lloyd Graham of Orchard Park, New York, is the editor of a regional business magazine and the author of several books, among them Niagara Country , a description of the folklore and history of the Niagara

Frank Graham, Jr., lives, in the fishing village of Milbridge, Maine. His latest book, Since Silent Spring , published this month by Houghton Mifflin Company, is an account of events leading up to and

Bruce Ingham Granger teaches English at the University of Oklahoma. This article was written under the auspices of the American Philosophical Society, which now possesses the Franklin-Brillon correspondence.

A former mayor of West Hartford, Connecticut, Ellsworth S. Grant now makes and distributes educational films. His most recent, Resolved to Be Free , was released early this year by the State Bicentennial

Priscilla Grant has a consulting business in Portland and writes for several national magazines.

Geoffrey C. Ward’s book, Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882–1905 , includes additional material about the Delanos; a paperback edition will be published by Perennial Library this July.

Neil A. Grauer is a Baltimore-based writer and caricaturist. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University, he has written three books on the history of Johns Hopkins Medicine: Centuries of Caring: The Johns Hopkins

Formerly on the faculty of Texas Christian University, Mr. Graves is now a free-lance writer with special interest in conservation and in local history. The editors are grateful to Donald and Margaret Vogel,

A grandnephew of Piatt Andrew, Mr. Gray was formerly director of the Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance in the United States Department of Commerce; he lives in Washington, D.C.

Admiral Cary Travers Grayson (1878 - 1938) was a surgeon in the U.S. Navy who served a variety of roles from personal aide to President Woodrow Wilson to chairman of the American Red Cross. After Grayson was

Gary T. Grayson, Jr., the publisher of Potomac Books, is a son of one of the participants in the 104-mile ride.

Dr. William E. Green was the curator of history at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas, and the former assistant curator at the Witte Museum in San Antonio.

Lieutenant S. Dana Greene served aboard the USS Monitor during the Battle of Hampton Roads, taking command as a 22 year-old when the ship's captain was wounded.

Marian Schomer Greene was Director of the Nassau County Office of Senior Citizens' Affairs and of the Jewish Association of Services for the Aged. She was a graduate of Hunter College and the Columbia

Alan Greenspan served as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006. After retiring from that post, Greenspan wrote his memoir, titled The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World, in 2007, and

Burt W. Griffin is the author of JFK, Oswald and Ruby: Politics, Prejudice and Truth and Cities Within a City: On Changing Cleveland's Government.

Judge Griffin was Assistant Counsel to the President's

Elisabeth Griffith is the author of FORMIDABLE: American Women and the Fight for Equality, 1920-2020 (Pegasus, 2022). Her biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, IN HER OWN RIGHT (Oxford, 1984), was the basis for

John Griggs has been an actor for thirty-five years, with more than a score of Broadway plays to his credit. He has also made numerous appearances on radio and television.

Jon Grinspan is a historian of American democracy, youth, and popular culture. He is a curator of political history at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and a frequent contributor to the New

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George W. Groh is a former Milwaukee and Corpus Christi, Texas, newspaperman and free-lance magazine writer now working for MD , a medical newsmagazine in New York City.

George Groh has written extensively on medical subjects. He is also the author of “Last of the Rebel Raiders,” which appeared in the December, 1958, AMERICAN HERITAGE . For further reading: The Midwest

Winston Groom is the author of sixteen books including including the bestseller Forrest Gump, and coauthor of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize nominee, Conversations with the Enemy. He also worked eight years for the

Edwin S. Grosvenor is the Editor-in-Chief of American Heritage and Invention & Technology Magazines. He is also the editor of twelve anthologies of essays that appeared in American Heritage including Men of

Charles Guggenheim, a three-time Academy Award winner, lives in Washington, D.C.

The Wealthy 100 was published by Citadel Press in 1996. Michael Klepper is the head of Michael Klepper and Associates in New York City, and Robert Gunther is the head of a communications firm in Kimberton,

American playwright and novelist A. R. Gurney, Jr. has written dozens of plays including Love Letters, The Cocktail Hour, and The Dining Room. Gurney currently lives in both New York and Connecticut.

C. W. Gusewelle, whose article “ A Continuity of Place and Blood The Seasons of Man in the Ozarks ” appeared in our December, 1977, issue, is an editor and writer for the Kansas City Star.

Richard J. S. Gutman’s American Diner Then and Now , a definitive history to be published by HarperCollins in May 1993, includes a directory of fourteen hundred currently operating diners.