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.[2] Succeeding Byron Dobell, he served as the editor from 1990 to 2007.[3]

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).[4] 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.[5] In 2019 he published the story of Walt Disney's invention of the amusement park, Disney's Land.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Past Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Winners 1967-2013". The Horn Book. Archived from the original on June 12, 2013.
  2. ^ "Bookshelf | Columbia College Today". www.college.columbia.edu. Retrieved June 15, 2022.
  3. ^ Charles McGrath, "Magazine Suspends Its Run in History", New York Times, May 17, 2007
  4. ^ "Biography | Richard Snow". richard-snow.com.
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ Zoellner, Tom (November 25, 2019). "Dreaming Up Disneyland (Published 2019)" – via NYTimes.com.


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