Richard Snow
Richard F. Snow (born 1947) is an American historian and writer of novels and short stories.
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]
References
- "Past Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Winners 1967-2013". The Horn Book. Archived from the original on June 12, 2013.
- Charles McGrath, "Magazine Suspends Its Run in History", New York Times, May 17, 2007
- Author bio
- "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.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/25/books/review/disneys-land-richard-snow-disneyland.html