Ward, Geoffrey C(hampion)

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WARD, Geoffrey C(hampion)

WARD, Geoffrey C(hampion). American, b. 1940. Genres: Plays/ Screenplays, Biography, History. Career: Writer. Encyclopedia Britannica, Chicago, Sr. Picture Ed., 1964-68; Audience mag., Boston, Co-Founder and Ed., 1969-73; American Heritage mag., NYC, Managing Ed., 1976-78, Ed., 1978-82. Publications: Lincoln's Thought and the Present, 1978; Treasures of the Maharajas, 1983; Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905, 1985; A First Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, 1989; The Civil War: An Illustrated History, 1990; American Originals: The Private Worlds of Some Singular Men and Women, 1991; Tiger-Wallahs: Encounters with the Men Who Tried to Save the Greatest of the Great Cats, 1993; Baseball: An Illustrated History, 1994; Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Margaret L. Suckley, 1995; The West: An Illustrated History, 1996; The Year of the Tiger, 1998; Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, 1999; Jazz: A History of American Music, 2000; Mark Twain, 2001. SCREENPLAYS: The Statue of Liberty, 1985; Huey Long, 1985; Nixon, 1990; The Civil War, 1990; Lindbergh, 1990; Reminiscing in Tempo, 1991; The Kennedys, 1992; George Marshall and the American Century, 1993; Baseball, 1994; The West, 1996; Theodore Roosevelt, 1997; Frank Lloyd Wright, 1998; Not for Ourselves Alone, 1999; Jazz, 2000; Mark Twain, 2001. Address: 290 West End Ave., Apt. 17C, New York, NY 10023, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]

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