Geoffrey Champion Ward is an author, historian and writer of American History documentaries for Public Television. The principal writer of the television mini-series The Civil War, Geoffrey C. Ward has collaborated with its co-producer Ken Burns on most of the documentaries he has made since, including Jazz, Baseball, The War, and Prohibition. The most recent Burns/Ward collaboration, Prohibition, premiered on PBS in 2011. This work has won him four Emmy Awards. He has won two other Emmys for the American Experience series. His script for the documentary Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and... Fall of Jack Johnson, won the Writer's Guild of America Award in 2005. Geoffrey C. Ward is the author or co-author of eighteen books, including five companion books to the documentaries he has written. He was the founding editor of Audience Magazine, and the editor of American Heritage Magazine, A First-class Temperament: the Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, his biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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