Geoffrey Ward

Geoffrey Ward

Geoffrey Champion Ward (born November 30, 1940) is an author and screenwriter of various documentary presentations of American history. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1962.

He was an editor of "American Heritage" magazine early in his career. He wrote the television mini-series "The Civil War" with its director Ken Burns and has collaborated with Burns on every documentary he has made since, including "Jazz" and "Baseball". This work won him five Emmy Awards. The most recent Burns/Ward collaboration, "The War", premiered on PBS in September 2007. In addition he co-wrote "The West", of which Ken Burns was an exectutive producer, with fellow historian Dayton Duncan.

He is the author or co-author of eighteen books, including five companion books to the documentaries he has written. "A First-Class Temperament", his biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians.

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* [http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/filmmakers/ward.html PBS bio]


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