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 The Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards are a set of American literary awards conferred by ''The Boston Globe'' and ''The Horn Book Magazine'' annually from 1967. One book is recognized in each of four categories: Fiction and Poetry, Nonfiction, and P ...

Honor book in 1979. Snow graduated from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

in 1970 and began working at ''

American Heritage Magazine ''American Heritage'' is a magazine dedicated to covering the history of the United States for a mainstream readership. Until 2007, the magazine was published by Forbes.

''. Succeeding

Byron Dobell Byron Dobell (May 30, 1927 – January 21, 2017) was an American editor and artist. He is considered "one of the most respected and accomplished editors in New York magazine publishing history," the editor of several popular American magazines, in ...

, he served as the editor from 1990 to 2007. After the magazine closed, he returned to writing full-time, penning ''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 The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, ran from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, covering a major part of the naval history of World War II. At its core was the Allied naval blockade ...

during World War II (Scribner, 2011) and ''I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford'', a biography of Henry Ford (2014). In 2016, he published ''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. In 2019 he published the story of

Walt Disney Walter Elias Disney (; December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film p ...

's invention of the amusement park, ''Disney's Land''.

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