Richard Snow

Richard Snow is a historian and the author of several books, among them two novels and a volume of poetry. He worked at American Heritage magazine for nearly four decades and was its editor-in-chief for seventeen years. Richard has served as a consultant for historical motion pictures—among them Glory—and has written for documentaries, including the Burns brothers' Civil War and Ric Burns's award-winning PBS film Coney Island, whose screenplay he wrote. Most recently, he served as a consultant on Ken Burns's World War II series, The War.