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Geoffrey Ward Biography (1940-)

Full name, Geoffrey Champion Ward; born November 30, 1940, in Newark, OH; sonof Frederick Champion (an educator) and Duira Rachel (maiden name, Baldinger) Ward; married Diane Raines Keim (a writer), November 26, 1983 (divorced); children: Nathan, Kelly; stepchildren: Garrett Keim.

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Occupation

Writer

Birth Details

November 30, 1940

Newark, Ohio, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Television Work
• Consultant; Miniseries
• The Shakers: Hands to Work and Hearts to God, PBS, 1984
• (Senior program consultant) The West, PBS, 1996
• (Senior creative consultant) Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corpsof Discovery, PBS, 1997
• (Senior creative consultant) Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, PBS, 1999
• Cinematographer; Specials
• Huey Long, RKB, 1985 then on PBS, 1986
• Senior Creative Consultant; Episodic
• "Coney Island," The American Experience, PBS, 1991
• "The Donner Party," The American Experience, PBS, 1993
• "FDR," The American Experience, PBS, 1994
• Television Appearances
• Episodic
• "FDR," The American Experience, PBS, 1994
• WRITINGS
• Teleplays
• Miniseries
• (With Ken Burns and Ric Burns) The Civil War (also known as TheAmerican Civil War), PBS, 1990
• (With Ken Burns) Baseball (also known as The History of Baseball), PBS, 1994
• (With Dayton Duncan) The West, PBS, 1996
• Thomas Jefferson, PBS, 1997
• Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and SusanB. Anthony, PBS, 1999
• Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided, PBS, 2001
• Jazz, PBS, 2001
• Specials
• (With others) The Statue of Liberty, PBS, 1985
• Huey Long, RKB, 1985 then on PBS, 1986
• (With others) Congress, PBS, 1989
• Thomas Hart Benton, PBS, 1989
• Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio, PBS, 1992
• Frank Lloyd Wright, PBS, 1998
• Episodic
• "Lindbergh," The American Experience, PBS, 1990
• (With others) "Nixon," The American Experience, PBS, 1990
• (With Robert Levi) "Duke Ellington: Reminiscing in Tempo," The American Experience, PBS, 1991
• (With others) "The Kennedys," The American Experience, PBS, 1992
• "George Marshall and the American Century," The American Experience, PBS, 1994
• (With Barak Goodman) "Daley: The Last Boss," The American Experience, PBS, 1996
• (With David Grubin) "Theodore Roosevelt" (also known as "TR"), The American Experience, PBS, 1996
• Nonfiction
• Lincoln's Thought and the Present (series of pamphlets), SangamonState University (Springfield, IL), 1976
• (Author of foreword) Marquis Childs, Mighty Mississippi: A Biography of a River, Ticknor & Fields (Boston), 1982
• Treasures of the World: The Maharajahs, Stonehenge, 1983
• Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905, Harper (New York City), 1985
• A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, Harper, 1989
• (With Ken Burns and Ric Burns) The Civil War: An Illustrated History (based on the television series), Knopf (New York City), 1990
• (Author of preface) Robert Hunt Rhodes, editor, All for the Union: TheCivil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Rhodes, Orion Books (New York City), 1991
• American Originals: The Private Worlds of Some Singular Men and Women, HarperCollins, 1991
• (With Diane Raines Ward) Tiger-Wallahs: Encounters with Men Who Triedto Save the Greatest of the Cats, HarperCollins, 1993
• (With Ken Burns) Baseball: An Illustrated History, Knopf, 1994
• (With others) "Shadow Ball: The History of the Negro Leagues," "25 GreatMoments," and "Who Invented the Game," in Baseball, the American Epic,Knopf, 1994
• Constant Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley, Houghton (Boston, MA), 1995
• (Editor with Ian Frazier and Robert Atwan; and author of preface) TheBest American Essays, 1996, Houghton, 1997
• (With Miriam Rinn and Dave Barry) Together: How We Belong, Troll Associates, 1997
• The West: An Illustrated History, Little, Brown (Boston), 1997
• (Author of foreword) Hugh Gregory Gallagher, Black Bird Fly Away: Disabled in an Able-Bodied World, Vandamere Press, 1998
• The Year of the Tiger, photographs by Michael Nichols, National Geographic Books, 1998
• (With Martha Saxton and Ann D. Gordon) Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Knopf, 1999
• (With Ken Burns) Jazz: The Story of America's Music, Knopf, 2000
• (With Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan) Mark Twain, Knopf, 2001
• Author of Financing America: A Pictorial History of Banking. Author of "Life and Times," a column in American Heritage, 1982-96. Contributor to books, including Franklin D. Roosevelt: His Life and Times, edited by Otis L. Graham, Jr. and Meghan Robinson Wander, G. K. Hall (Boston),1985; Presidents and the Presidency, edited by Marc Landy, Lexington Books (Lexington, MA), 1985; and Openings: Original Essays by ContemporarySoviet and American Writers, edited by Atwan and Valeri Vinokurov, University of Washington Press (Seattle), 1990. Also contributor to Annals of America, Black Dialogues, Encyclopedia of American History, Great Events of the Twentieth Century, Great Ideas Today, Illustrated Bible, Illustrated History of World War II, Makers ofAmerica, The Negro in American History, Story of America, Story of the Great West, and A Tribute to John F. Kennedy. Contributor to periodicals, including Americana, Aperture, Audubon, Cuisine, Family Circle, Geo, Military HistoryQuarterly, National Geographic, New York Review of Books, New York Times Book Review, Science Digest, Smithsonian, USA Today, and Vanity Fair.