Authors

Ruth D. Muehl teaches English at the University of New Haven in Connecticut.

Harry Miles Muheim has published a novel and is working on another one. He also writes speeches, documentary films, and political television spots. He lives in San Francisco.

A former correspondent for the Los Angeles Times who has written on a variety of historical topics, Bob Mullin now teaches high school English.

Lewis Mumford (1895 – 1990) was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher, and influential literary critic noted for his writings on cities and urban architecture. Mumford served as the architectural critic for The New Yorker magazine for over 30 years. His 1961 book, The City in History, received the National Book Award.

Jerrold Mundis is a writer, speaker, and counselor. He has written 17 novels, 13 non-fiction books, and some 100 short stories, essays, and articles. He has written under various pseudonyms, including Robert Calder, Eric Corder, and Julia Withers. Two of Mundis's well known novels are Gerhardt's Children and The Dogs. His works have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper's Weekly, and been selected for The Book-of-the-Month Club.

Cullen Murphy is the managing editor of The Atlantic Monthly and writer of the comic strip “Prince Valiant.” This essay is drawn in part from his new book The Word According to Eve: Women and the Bible in Ancient Times and Our Own , published this month by Houghton Mifflin.

Wendy Murphy, a former editor at AMERICAN HERITAGE , is now living in Connecticut, where she hopes to have more time to tend to her own flowers and vegetables. She is the author of Gardening Under Lights , published this spring by Time-Life Books. For further reading: An Age of Flowers by Doris L. Swarthout (The Chatham Press, 1975).

Richard Murphy is a freelance writer.

Charles Murray is a political scientist, author, and libertarian, and the F.A. Hayek Emeritus Chair in Cultural Studies at the American Enterprise Institute.   Mr. Murray is the author most recently of By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission (2015). His previous books include the New York Times bestseller Coming Apart (2012), Real Education (2008), In Our Hands (2006), Human Accomplishment (2003), the controversial 1994 New York Times bestseller The Bell Curve, and Losing Ground. Dr. Murray has Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. in history from Harvard University.  

Mr. Murray is the head of the history department at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Public Opinion and the American Red Cross (1950) and of Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria (1955).

Mr. Murray teaches creative writing at the University of Iowa and farms five acres at nearby West Branch. Mr. Wilson, a free-lance photographer with a special interest in conservation, lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington. He took many of the photos in this portfolio for his Grass Land, published by Wide Skies Press in Polk, Nebraska.

Ivan Musicant is the recipient of the 1987 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature. His latest book, The Banana Wars , will be published in May. He is currently at work on Divided Waters: The Civil War at Sea .

Steve Musselman Everywhere, U.S.A.

John Myers Myers, who lives in Tempe, Arizona, is the author of such books on the Southwest as The Alamo, The Last Chance: Tombstone’s Early Years , and Doc Holliday .

Philip Myers, a retired manufacturer of architectural millwork, has for over a half century devoted his spare time to writing. His first article appeared in Munsey’s Magazine in 1917.

Gerald Nachman is the author, most recently, of Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s (Pantheon).

In addition to his recent Los Angeles: Mission to Modern City , of which this article forms a part, Remi Nadeau has written three other books on California history, among them The Water Seekers (Doubleday, 1950).

Cynthia Nadelman is an art critic and poet who lives in New York City.

Ethan A. Nadelmann is assistant professor of politics and public affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He chairs the Princeton Working Group on the Future of Drug Use and Alternatives to Drug Prohibition.

Both Dr. Castel and Dr. Nahm are members of the history department of Western Michigan University at Kalamazoo. This is Dr. Castel’s third appearance in AMERICAN HERITAGE ; a Kansan, he was formerly a Civil War specialist but has recently widened his field of study. Dr. Nahm was born in Pyongyang, Korea (where, incidentally, the General Sherman was destroyed), and has written many articles and monographs on the history of his native country.

David Nasaw is the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Also an award-winning author, Nasaw has written such books as Andrew Carnegie, The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst, and Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements.

Thomas J. Naughton, holder of an engineering degree from Princeton and a former magazine editor, is now a free-lance writer living in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.

Steve Neal is a political writer and columnist for the Chicago Tribune , and the author of four books on American politics.

Avon Neal and his wife, Ann Parker, tend fruitful vineyards of Americana at their home in North Brookfield, Massachusetts. Their article on ephemeral folk figures appeared in our April, 1970, number, and their gravestone rubbings have been widely hailed and exhibited. A limited edition of one of their original rubbings (not shown here) is available, framed and shipped, to our readers at $55. Orders or requests for more information should be addressed to The Publisher, AMERICAN HERITAGE , 551 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017.

William Neely is an amateur pilot and author of numerous books on auto racing. This article is adapted from his book Pilots , published this August by Simon & Schuster.

Daniel Nelson, a professor of history at the University of Akron, is the author of Shifting Fortunes: The Rise and Decline of American Labor, From the 182Os to the Present (Ivan R. Dee, 1997).

Richard L. Neuberger is the junior United States senator from Oregon and a native of that state. He is presenting the fee received for this article to Portland State College, to be awarded toward a scholarship to students specializing in the study or teaching of Oregon history.

Allan Nevins (1890-1971) was an American historian and journalist, and Chairman of the American Heritage Advisory Board. He was known for his extensive work on the history of the Civil War and his biographies of such figures as President Grover Cleveland, Hamilton Fish, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller. Nevins was also chairman of the history department at Columbia University, and President of the American Historical Association.

Wellington Newcomb is a practicing attorney in New York City. From 1954 to 1956 he was Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Proprietor of the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop in Chicago, Mr. Newman is an experienced appraiser of manuscripts and collections in the fields of American history and literature. This article was adapted from a speech given before the Manuscript Society and printed in its magazine, Manuscripts. Additional copies of the speech may be obtained at a small charge from one of our sponsoring societies, the American Association for State and Local History, 132 Ninth Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee 37203.

Tom Nicholas currently is William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His research focuses on linking historical U.S. patent records to Federal Censuses to examine the life cycle of inventors and their contributions to U.S. economic growth over the long run. After receiving his doctorate from Oxford University, he also taught at MIT's Sloan School of Management and at the London School of Economics.

Roy F. Nichols is vice-provost find dean of the graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written several books on the American political cumule, including The Disruption of American Democracy , which received the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1949.

Lauren Nicole is a freelance writer living in Austin who blogs at hipstercrite.com. She wrote the script for the film Loves Her Gun, which premiered at SXSW ‘13.

Glenn A. Niemeyer is dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Grand Valley Slate College. Allendale. Michigan, and is the author of The Automotive Career of Ransom E. Olds (Michigan State Univeristy Press, 1963). Together they are working on a full-length biography of Durant.

Ada Nisbet was a professor of English at UCLA who wrote several studies of nineteenth-century Anglo-American relations. She published Dickens and Ellen Ternan (1952) and edited Dickens Centennial Essays.

Mary Noel was educated at Radcliffe and Columbia University. She is the author of Villains Galore (Macmillan, 1954), about the era of the popular story weekly, and teaches history at the Polytechnic Institute, San German, Puerto Rico.

Bennett Nolan, a member of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission lives in Reading. He has collected, over many year, the facts about these paintings and the people who appear in them.

William A. Nolen, M.D., graduated from Tufts medical school in 1953. He received his surgical training in the Cornell Surgical Division at Bellevue and served in the Army Medical Corps. He is currently the chief of surgery at the Litchfield Clinic in Litchfield, Minnesota. Among the eight books he has written for a general audience is The Making of a Surgeon . His last article for American Heritage was “ A Short History of Heart Surgery ” (August/ September 1983).

Michael Norman, a professor at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, co-authored Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2009) with his wife, Elizabeth.