ABOUT THE EDITOR
HAROLD HOLZER is the author, co-author, or editor of more than thirty-five books on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, including The Confederate Image (1987), The Union Image (1990), Eyewitness to War: The Civil War (1996), Prang’s Civil War Pictures (2001), and In Lincoln’s Hand (2009). His many awards include a 2005 Lincoln Prize, the Bell I. Wiley Prize, and the National Humanities Medal, which was awarded to him by the president of the United States in 2008. From 2000 to 2010 he served as co-chair of the United States Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, lecturing widely and appearing frequently on television, including PBS, C-SPAN, and the History Channel. He is senior vice president for external affairs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
THE MODERN LIBRARY EDITORIAL BOARD
Maya Angelou
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A. S. Byatt
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Caleb Carr
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Christopher Cerf
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Harold Evans
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Charles Frazier
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Vartan Gregorian
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Jessica Hagedorn
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Richard Howard
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Charles Johnson
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Jon Krakauer
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Edmund Morris
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Azar Nafisi
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Joyce Carol Oates
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Elaine Pagels
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John Richardson
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Salman Rushdie
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Oliver Sacks
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Carolyn See
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Gore Vidal
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