Richard Snow

Richard F. Snow (born 1947) is an American historian and writer of novels and short stories.

For the American educational psychologist, see Richard E. Snow.

Biography

Snow is the author of the 1981 novel, The Burning, a fictionalized account of the Hinckley, Minnesota, fire of 1894. His other works include The Funny Road (1975) and The Iron Road (1979), which was a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Honor book in 1979.[1]

Snow graduated from Columbia University in 1970 and began working at American Heritage Magazine. succeeding, Byron Dobell, he served as the editor from 1990 to 2007.[2]

After the magazine closed, he returned to writing full-time, penning A Measureless Peril: America in the Fight for the Atlantic, the Longest Battle of World War II, about America’s role in the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II (Scribner, 2011) and I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford, a biography of Henry Ford (2014).[3] In 2016, he published Iron Dawn: The Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War Sea Battle that Changed History which won that years Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature.[4] In 2019 he published the story of Walt Disney's invention of the amusement park, Disney's Land.[5]

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References
  1. "Past Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Winners 1967-2013". The Horn Book. Archived from the original on June 12, 2013.
  2. Charles McGrath, "Magazine Suspends Its Run in History", New York Times, May 17, 2007
  3. Author bio
  4. "Iron Dawn by Richard Snow - 2017 RADM Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature". Naval Order of the United States. November 15, 2017. Retrieved December 23, 2017.
  5. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/25/books/review/disneys-land-richard-snow-disneyland.html
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