Jazz

GEOFFREY C. WARD, historian, screenwriter, and former editor of American Heritage, is the coauthor of Not for Ourselves Alone, The Civil War, and Baseball and principal writer of the television series on which they were based. He is also the author of The West and principal writer of the script for that series, and has written seven other books, including A First-Class temperament- The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, which won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award for biography and the 1990 Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians. His latest book, Unforgivable Blackness, won the 2006 William Hill Sports Book of the Year award (both published by Pimlico). He lives in New York City. KEN BURNS, director and producer of Jazz, has been making award-winning documentary films for more than twenty years. He was director of the landmark PBS series The Civil War and Baseball and executive producer of The West. His other films include the Academy Award-nominated Brooklyn Bridge; The Shakers; The Statue of Liberty (also nominated for an Oscar); Huey Long; Thomas Hart Benton; The Congress; Empire of the Air; Jefferson; Lewis & Clark; Frank Lloyd Wright; and most recently, the acclaimed Not for Ourselves Alone- The story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.