Authors

E. McClung Fleming is a noted researcher and author who has written such books as R.R. Bowker: Militant Liberal, and A tribute to Charles F. Montgomery, 1910-1978.

Thomas Fleming is a longtime contributor to American Heritage and former president of the Society of American Historians. He is the author of dozens of respected books on American history, including Franklin, George Washington: Spymaster Extraordinaire, My Days with Harry Truman, Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers, The Perils of Peace: America's Struggle for Survival After Yorktown, Now We Are Enemies: The Story of Bunker Hill, The Great Divide: The Conflict between Washington and Jefferson that Defined a Nation, and A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War. Fleming has appeared on C-SPAN, the History Channel, A&E, and PBS. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and graduated with honors from Fordham University.

Beatrice Hudson Flexner is a professional singer and instrumentalist who has made a specialty of performing early American music, and has also lectured on the subject. She is the wife of the American historian James Thomas Flexner.

James Thomas Flexner (1908-2003) was most famous for his extensive writings on American art history and a four-volume biography of George Washington, for which he won a special Pulitzer citation. Flexner's other historical biographies include the one-volume Washington: The Indispensable Man, The Young Hamilton, Mohawk Baronet (Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet), and The Traitor and the Spy: Benedict Arnold and John Andre.

James J. Flink taught comparative culture at the University of California, Irvine, and was the author of America Adopts the Automobile, 1895-1910 (M.I.T. Press, 1970).

Marshall Fishwick ii associate professor of American studies at Washington and Lee University. Among his recent books are The Virginia Tradition. General Lee’s Photographer , and American Heroes: Myth and Reality .

Mrs. Jensen is the author of The White House and Its Thirty-Three Families . She and her husband, Howard, are preparing a TV film on the mansion’s paintings.

Eric Foner, the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, has served as president of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Society of American Historians. One of the foremost experts on the Civil War, Slavery, Reconstruction, and Abraham Lincoln, Foner's most recent book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, published in the fall of 2010, won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2011.

Shelby Foote (1916 – 2005) was an American historian and novelist who wrote The Civil War: A Narrative, a massive, three-volume history of the war. Foote became well-known to the public after his appearance in Ken Burns's PBS documentary The Civil War in 1990. In 2003, Foote received the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award presented by the Tulsa Library Trust. Photo courtesy of www.achievement.org

Timothy Forbes was President and Chief Operating Officer of Forbes. Mr. Forbes joined the company in 1986 after negotiating the acquisition of the American Heritage division. He is involved in the strategic planning and business development of the company, and he serves as Chairman of Forbes.com. Prior to joining Forbes, Tim Forbes was an independent producer and screenwriter; his documentaries on historical subjects and current affairs have been broadcast nationally on PBS.

Diana Forbes-Robertson is a free-lance writer who makes her home in Europe.

C. S. Forester (1899-1966) wrote several novels with military and naval themes, including The African Queen, The Barbary Pirates, The General, The Good Shepherd, The Gun, The Last Nine Days of the "Bismarck", and Rifleman Dodd. But Forester is best known as the creator of Horatio Hornblower, a British naval genius of the Napoleonic era, whose exploits and adventures on the high seas Forester chronicled in a series of eleven acclaimed historical novels. Over the years, Hornblower has proved to be one of the most beloved and enduring fictional heroes in English literature, his popularity rivaled only by Sherlock Holmes.

William Price Fox is a novelist, journalist, and short-story writer. The final passage of his article comes from his most recent novel, Ruby Red , © 1971 by William Price Fox, and is reprinted here by permission of J. B. Lippincott Company.

Formerly a member of President Elsenhower’s White House staff, Mr. Fox has been a Congregational minister in various parts of the country, and is the author of books on church music and missionary activities.

Richard B. Frank is a historian and one of the leading authorities on the Asian theater of World War II. His books include Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle, which won the Wallace M. Greene Award from the U.S. Marine Corps; Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire; MacArthur, a short biography of the general; and his latest, Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, a planned trilogy, the first volume of which came out in 2020. Originally from Missouri, Frank served for four years in Vietnam as a rifle platoon leader with the 101st Airborne Division. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri (1969) and Georgetown University Law Center (1976).

Reuven Frank (1920-2006), who later served two stints as president of NBC News, was on hand for the turmoil at Logan Airport as a young newswriter. “I was one of the few, ” he says, “who doubted it was a clogged fuel line. Throughout, I felt like a kid with an all-points pass to the circus. ”

  Lily Franks is a History student at Ohio University's Honors Tutorial College. She joined American Heritage in 2026 as an Editorial Assistant while studying in Washington with the Scripps Semester in DC program. 

“U William C. Franz is a free-lance writer, specializing in the history of New York City and environs, and a co-founder of the Fort Wadsworth Museum on Staten Island.

Richard A. R. Fraser, M.D., is a professor of surgery (neurosurgery) at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. He wishes to thank his three fellow researchers on the article: Aaron Zelman, Dirke Brunner, and James Dana.

Irwin F. Fredman was an instructor in the humanities at Hobart College in upstate New York as well as an advertising man on Madison Avenue.It was while he was studying the machinations of Harry Sinclair of Teapot Dome fame that Fredman first came upon the parallels that he explores in this essay.

Douglas Southall Freeman (1886 – 1953) was an American historian, biographer, newspaper editor, radio commentator, and author. Freeman is best known for his multi-volume biographies of Robert E. Lee and George Washington, for both of which he was awarded Pulitzer Prizes.

Sally Mott Freeman is the author of The Jersey Brothers: A Missing Naval Officer in the Pacific and His Family's Quest to Bring Him Home. Ms. Freeman was a speechwriter and media and public relations executive for twenty-five years. She is currently Board Chair Emerita of The Writer’s Center, the premier independent literary center in the mid-Atlantic. 

Frank Freidel is professor of history at Stanford University, and is working on an extensive biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt, of which two volumes have been published. The above article is a paper, slightly abridged, which he delivered at the meeting of the American Historical Association.

Stephen Fried is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author who teaches at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. Most recently he authored Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father (Broadway Books). Fried also is the author of the historical biography Appetite for America, and the co-author, with Congressman Patrick Kennedy, of A Common Struggle. His earlier books include the biography Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia and the investigative books Bitter Pills and The New Rabbi. 

Robert Friedman’s article on historical archaeology appeared in our August/September 1983 issue.

Otto Friedrich’s most recent article for American Heritage was “ Traveling with a Sense of History ,” April 1987. He is a senior writer at Time magazine.

Will Friedwald is the jazz reviewer for the New York Sun and the author of seven books on music and popular culture.

Robert Froman is the author of The Nerve of Some Animals and One Million Islands for Sale . He contributed “The Red Ghost” to the April, 1961, issue of AMERICAN HERITAGE . For further reading: Plants, Man and Life , by Edgar Anderson (Little, Brown, 1952); Agricultural Origins and Dispersals , by Carl O. Sauer (American Geographical Society, 1952).

Thomas Froncek, a frequent contributor to AMERICAN HERITAGE , has traveled the route of the Donners. A free-lance writer and editor, he is the author of many magazine articles and Voices from the Wilderness: The Frontiersman’s Own Story (1974).

In 1950, Annette Riley Fry married Varian Fry, an American journalist who ran a rescue network in Vichy France that helped approximately 2,000 to 4,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees to escape Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Fry's grandfather had spent many years as the western agent of the Society, shepherding abandoned and orphaned New York children to new homes in the west on the "Orphan Trains.

Lawrence H. Fuchs is Jaffee Professor of American Civilization and Politics and chairman of the department of American studies at Branden University. Among the many books he has written is John F. Kennedy and American Catholicism (Meredith Press, 1967). He wishes to acknowledge the assistance of Dan Fenn and Sylvie Turner of the John F. Kennedy Library in making certain papers and documents available for use in this article.

Dr. Claude Moore Fuess, headmaster emeritus of Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, is a schoolmaster by profession to whom biography is a hobby. He is the author of distinguished lives of Caleb Gushing, Daniel Webster, Rufus Choate, Calvin Coolidge, and other American political figures. He lives in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. This article was originally prepared for and read at a meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society on January 9, 1958.

Bob Fulton is the author of The Summer Olympics: A Treasury of Legends and Lore , recently published by Diamond Communications, South Bend, Indiana.

—Alan Furst’s most recent novel is The World at Night .

J. C. Fumas, who lives in Lebanon, New Jersey, is the author of Goodbye to Uncle Tom , a study of the impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin on the United States. This article is based on Mr. Furnas’ research for a forthcoming book entitled The Road to Harpers Ferry .

Neal Gabler is the author of An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood. His Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity has just been published by Knopf.

—John Kenneth Galbraith’s new book is Letters to Kennedy .

Mr. Gallagher, an established writer of both fiction and nonfiction, discovered the gruesome events described above while doing research for a history of Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. His book, to be published by Harcourt, Brace & World in October to commemorate the medical school’s two-hundredth anniversary, will be called The Doctors’ Story .