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Beverly Rae Kimes, the author of many books on automobile history, was for years editor of Automobile Quarterly.

Benedict B. Kimmelman was a captain in the U.S. Army and was awarded the Silver Star for actions on December 19, 1944. He now practices and teaches in Philadelphia. Private Slovik’s remains were removed to

Gary Kinder is author of the New York Times bestseller Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea: The History and Discovery of the World’s Richest Shipwreck.

Larry L. King (1929–2012) was a playwright, journalist, and novelist, best remembered for his 1978 Tony Award-nominated play "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."

From 1954 to 1964 Larry L. King was a

BB King is the king of the blues.

—Stephen King’s most recent novel is Bag of Bones .

Dean King is an award-winning author of ten nonfiction books. He crossed the Sahara on camels and in Land Rovers while researching Skeletons on the Zahara, trekked the Long March trail in the mountains of

Maxine Hong Kingston won the 1976 National Book Critics Circle Award for her novel The Woman Warrior.

Kenneth Finkel is curator of prints at The Library Company of Philadelphia.

Paul H. Downing, the technical expert in this collaboration, is an ex-cavalryman and onetime banker whose avocation is horse-drawn vehicles. Recently he became a professional consultant on carriages, and has

Frank Kintrea, a frequent contributor to AMERICAN HERITAGE, got his secondary schooling at Lawrenceville, another all-male, private school.

Jeff Kisseloff is the author most recently of The Box: An Oral History of Television, 1920-1961 (Viking, 1995).

Henry A. Kissinger is Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm. He served as Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977, and previously was

Robert Klara is an editor and freelance writer who lives in Manhattan.

MICHAEL J. KLARMAN is an American legal historian, and constitutional law scholar, the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Harvard Law School. Formerly, he was James Monroe Distinguished

Spencer Klaw teaches journalism at Columbia University and is a frequent contributor to our pages.

Gil Klein is now Resident Director of the University of Oklahoma’s Washington Journalism Program after teaching Journalism and New Media at American University’s Washington Semester Program. Coming to

—Maury Klein is the author of The Life and Legend of E. H. Harriman . His book Rainbow’s End: The Crash of 1929 will be published in October by Oxford University Press.

Philip Shriver Klein is the head of the history department at the Pennsylvania State University and president of the Pennsylvania Historical Association. Author of several books, he is now at work completing a

Greg Klerkx wrote Lost in Space: The Fall of NASA and the Dream of a New Space Age .

Jocelyn W. Knowles is a writer in Sarasota, Florida.

Horace Knowles, a public relations man, is the editor of Gentlemen, Scholars, and Scoundrels , an anthology taken from more than a century of Harper’s Magazine . For further reading: Americans in Eastern

O’Donnell was only one of the graveyards. Later in the war those still alive were moved to labor camps in Japan where many more starved or were worked to death. Altogether about ten thousand Americans made

John Kobler’s most recent book is Otto the Magnificent: A Life of Otto Kahn , published this year by Scribner’s.

Jim Koch founded the Boston Beer Company in 1984 with Rhonda Kallman and built it into the fourth largest brewer in the U.S. He is a fifth-generation brewer and widely considered to be a founding father of the

Louis W. Koenig is a professor of government at New York University. In 1981 he published a revision of his work The Chief Executive .

The late Avery Kolb held several key governmental posts in defense, Nato, and economic crisis management. A prolific author, his works include a novel and many scholarly articles on history. Our thanks to

Philip Kopper is a frequent contributor to American Heritage. A journalist, author, editor, and publisher, he has written numerous books including America’s National Gallery of Art, Colonial Williamsburg, and

Michael Korda’s Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero has just been published by Eminent Lives.

Mr. Kotker, formerly on the staff of Horizon magazine, is now on editor with the American Heritage book division.

Andrei Kozyrev is a Russian diplomat who served as the Russian Federation's Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Boris Yeltsin from 1991 to 1996. As the country's first foreign minister, Kozyrev was

Ken and Pat Kraft are a husband-and-wife writing team from Carmel, California. They ran across Black Bart in old California newspaper files while living in Santa Rosa, doing research for their seventh book, a

Rita Kramer is a free-lance editor and writer. She is currently at work on a history of childhood in New York.

Daniel Kramer is currently preparing a book called DEATH VALLEY LIVES.

Robert K. Krick is the author of Conquering the Valley: Stonewall Jackson at Port Republic (William Morris, 1996).

Irving Kristol has been a key figure at such magazines as Commentary , Encounter , and The Reporter . He is currently co-editor of The Public Interest magazine and Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban

Lee Kruszewski Palm Desert, Calif.

Jon Kukla is the author of Mr. Jefferson’s Women and A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America, as well as many scholarly articles and reviews.

He has served as the

Andrew Kull, a baseball enthusiast, currently lives in Paris.

Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. was a former managing editor of Life magazine who became known as a writer and producer of historical documentaries for television. With two of his sons, he created Kunhardt Productions

W. S. Kuniczak was born in Poland and came to the United States in 1950. He is the author of The Thousand Hour Day , a novel about the fall of Poland in World War II. This essay has been adapted from