Authors

Christopher Klein is an author and freelance writer specializing in history. He writes stories about the past that inform us about the present and guide us to the future. A frequent contributor to History.com, he is the author of four books including When the Irish Invaded Canada.

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 biography of James Buchanan.

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 Washington in 1985 from the Tampa Tribune, he was a national correspondent for the Media General News Service for 22 years, writing for 23 Southern newspapers.  Mr. Klein was the 1994 president of the National Press Club and now is chair of its History and Heritage committee. In 2008, he toured the United States for the Club, moderating forums with leading local journalists on the future of journalism and how to protect its core values.

—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.

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 Asia , by Tyler Dennett (Macmillan, 1922); China’s Management of the American Barbarians , by Earl Swisher (Yale University, 1953).

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 the Death March: one thousand died. Another five thousand died later while in Japanese hands. Donald Knox, who conducted these interviews, is a television documentary producer based in Minneapolis. He reports that recalling these events—even thirty-five years later—was still so painful for many of the survivors that they would make him stop the tape recorder while they cried.

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 American craft beer movement. Koch earned BA, Juris Doctor, and MBA degrees from Harvard University, and is the author of Quench Your Own Thirst: Business Lessons Learned Over a Beer or Two.

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 Bermuda historian Terry Tucker and Mary Skiffington at the Bermuda Archives for their help in finding illustrations.

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 National Museum of Natural History, which Book World’s lead reviewer called “a museum in itself.”

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 involved in the negotiations among Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus regarding the secession of those republics and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. From 1996 to 2000, he represented the port city of Murmansk in the Duma, a chamber of the Russian Parliament. He left Russia in 2010 to settle in the United States.

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 biography of Luther Burbank to be published soon by Appleton-Century. For further reading: Wild Oats in Eden , by Harvey J. Hansen and Jeanne Thurlow Miller (Hooper, Santa Rosa, 1962); Wells Fargo , by Edward Hungerford (Random House, 1949); Bad Company , by Joseph Henry Jackson (Harcourt, Brace, 1949).

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

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

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 Values at New York University. He presented this article as a lecture at St. John’s Church in LaFayette Square, Washington, D.C., on October 12 last. It was the first address in the American Enterprise Institute’s videotaped “Distinguished Lecture Series” on the approaching bicentennial, and it is printed here by permission of that nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization.

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 executive director of the Historic New Orleans Collection and of Red Hill-The Patrick Henry National Memorial in Charlotte County, Virginia.

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 that produced films such as "Freedom," an eight-hour series broadcast on PBS stations in 2003; "The American President," a 10-hour series shown on PBS on 2000; and "P. T. Barnum," a three-hour biography shown on the Discovery Channel in 1995. Mr. Kunhardt wrote more than a dozen books, often companion volumes to the films written with his sons.

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 materials in his forthcoming book, My Name Is Million: An Illustrated History of the Poles in America , to be issued by Doubleday in the spring of 1978.

Amber Kunkel 2002 Grand Prize @ Winning Essay Middle School (Grade 6) George H. Moody Middle School Richmond, Virginia Sponsoring Teacher: Glenda Hite

Karen Ordahl Kupperman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. Her book Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony was published by Rowman & Allanheld last year. She will take part in a discussion of the Roanoke voyages, the New World environment, and map making on the radio program “Soundings” to be broadcast over National Public Radio stations during the week of August 4. Also on the program will be Dr. Helen Wallis, the Map Librarian at the British Library.

Wilbur G. Kurtz, artist and historian, is the leading authority on the Battle of Atlanta. In 1934–36 he supervised the restoration of the Cyclorama painting.

Henry I. Kurtz is coauthor, with Burtt Ehrlich, of the forthcoming book The Art of the Toy Soldier and serves as a lead-soldier specialist for Phillips, the New York City auction house.

Keith Kyle is Washington correspondent of The Economist , of London. He took his degree in history at Oxford, where he studied under A. J. P. Taylor. This article is taken from a talk he gave over the B.B.C. some months ago on “The Third Program,” a kind of intelligent man’s radio service which unfortunately has no U.S. counterpart.

Paul G. Labadie is a writer based in Detroit. For information about Alamo Village, call 210-563-2580.

Lawrence Lader, who has written widely on history, is currently at work on a study, as yet unfilled, of radical movements in the United States since 1946. This article is based on material from the book, which will be published by W. W. Norton & Co.

Gavin Lambert is a Hollywood screenwriter and author of Natalie Wood: A Life .

James Lamont, Jr., is a freelance writer now living in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield, Illinois.

Bruce Lancaster was the author of 27 books of history and historical novels. His books included The American Heritage Book of The Revolution; The American Heritage Picture History of the American People; Ticonderoga, the story of a fort; Blind Journey; and Phantom Fortress. Mr. Lancaster was a graduate of Harvard College.

Paul Lancaster’s article on the life and times of the American motel appeared in the June/July issue.

Marc Lancaster is a senior editor for The Sporting News. He has been a reporter and editor for a variety of print and media outlets, including the Washington Times, AOL, Tampa Tribune, and Cincinnati Post. He has also freelanced widely for other publications. He posts stories about combat journalism on his blog, World War II on Deadline. "I’m interested in contemporary accounts of the war — words written and broadcast, without the benefit of knowing what would happen on December 7, 1941, June 6, 1944 and August 6, 1945."  This fascination predates Lancaster's professional career. As a boy in Detroit, he spent hours reading old newspapers that his grandmother had used to decorate the walls, from Pearl Harbor through Reagan’s election. 

Eric Lane is the Eric J. Schmertz Distinguished Professor of Public Law and Public Service at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University. He is the author of three books, including The Genius of America: How the Constitution Saved Our Country and Why It Can Again (with Michael Oreskes, former senior managing editor of the Associated Press) and two textbooks on the legislative process and statutory interpretation that have been used in law schools nationally. Lane previously served as the senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, and from 2002 to 2005 was special counsel to the speaker of the New York City Council. He currently serves as an Honorary Trustee of the Vera Institute of Justice and is also a member of the American Law Institute and the American Bar Foundation.

Philip Langdon, a senior editor of Progressive Architecture , is the author of A Better Place to Live: Reshaping the American Suburb .

Mr Laning, the well-known muralist, contributed to our pages “Memoirs of a WPA Painter” (October, 1970) and “Spoon River Revisited” (June, 1971). His recent book, The Act of Drawing , was published by McGraw-Hill.