Richard Snow
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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.{{cite web |url=http://www.hbook.com/2011/05/news/boston-globe-horn-book-awards/past-boston-globe-horn-book-award-winners-2 |title=Past Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Winners 1967-2013 |work=The Horn Book |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130612015400/http://www.hbook.com/2011/05/news/boston-globe-horn-book-awards/past-boston-globe-horn-book-award-winners-2 |archivedate=June 12, 2013 |url-status=dead}}
Snow graduated from Columbia University in 1970 and began working at American Heritage Magazine.{{Cite web |title=Bookshelf {{!}} Columbia College Today |url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/archive/nov_dec10/bookshelf0 |access-date=2022-06-15 |website=www.college.columbia.edu}} Succeeding Byron Dobell, he served as the editor from 1990 to 2007.Charles McGrath, "[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/arts/17heri.html Magazine Suspends Its Run in History]", New York Times, May 17, 2007
After the magazine closed, he returned to writing full-time, writing:
- 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)
- I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford, a biography of Henry Ford (2014).{{Cite web|url=http://richard-snow.com/bio/|title=Biography | Richard Snow|website=richard-snow.com}}
- 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.navalorder.org/awards/2017/11/15/iron-dawn-by-richard-snow-2017-radm-samuel-eliot-morison-award-for-naval-literature |title=Iron Dawn by Richard Snow - 2017 RADM Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature |publisher=Naval Order of the United States|author= |date=November 15, 2017 |accessdate=December 23, 2017}}
- Disney's Land (2019), the story of Walt Disney's invention of the amusement park.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/25/books/review/disneys-land-richard-snow-disneyland.html|title=Dreaming Up Disneyland|first=Tom|last=Zoellner|date=November 25, 2019|via=NYTimes.com}}
- Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial that Gripped the Nation (Scribner 2023).
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Category:Columbia College (New York) alumni
Category:20th-century American novelists
Category:American male novelists
Category:American male short story writers
Category:20th-century American short story writers
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