Geoffrey Champion Ward (born 1940) is an editor, author, historian and writer of scripts for American history documentaries for public television. He is the author or co-author of 18 books, including five companion books to the documentaries he has written. He is the winner of seven Emmy Awards. Born in Newark, Ohio and a graduate of Oberlin College (1962), Wards father was F. Champion Ward, educator and a devisor of the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant. Ward spent some of his boyhood years in India. In 2006, the Organization of American Historians gave Ward their Friend of History Award for his outstanding contributions to American history. Over the last twenty years Geoffrey Wards writings on American History have had a greater influence and reached a wider audience than those of any other American writer and historian. [His] work is always his own, but he has also helped free ideas that otherwise might have been imprisoned in the academy and helped them find a wider world. He has helped academic historians understand the possibilities, limits, and demands of what has become the medium through which most Americans now get their history. The most recent Burns/Ward collaboration, Prohibition (2011), brought Ward his seventh Emmy for Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming. He is currently at work on a multi-part series Vietnam, with Lynn Novick and Ken Burns.
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