Geoffrey C. Ward is a multifaceted individual, boasting a wide range of professional endeavors, including author, editor, historian, and writer of scripts for American History Documentaries for Public Television.
With an impressive bibliography of 18 books, five of which are companion books to documentary films he has written, Ward has garnered significant recognition, including seven Emmy Awards.
As the principal writer of the television mini-series The Civil War (1990),Ward has collaborated with co-producer Ken Burns on numerous documentaries, including Jazz, Baseball, The War, and Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, earning him five Emmy Awards.
Ward's work has also been recognized with two Emmys for the American Experience series, including The Kennedys (1992) and TR, The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (1996).
His script for the documentary Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson won the Writers Guild of America Award in 2005, while the accompanying book won the 2006 William Hill Sports Book of the Year and the Anisfield-Wolf Award for best biography.
In 2006, the Organization of American Historians honored Ward with the Friend of History Award for his outstanding contributions to American history.
Geoffrey Ward's influence on American history has been profound, with his writings reaching a wider audience over the last twenty years than those of any other American writer and historian.
His work has not only been praised for its quality but also for its ability to bring academic ideas to a broader audience, helping to make history more accessible to the masses.
Ward's most recent collaboration with Ken Burns, Prohibition (2011),earned him his seventh Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming.
He is currently working on a multi-part series, Vietnam, with Lynn Novick and Ken Burns.
Throughout his career, Ward has been the principle writer or co-writer of 24 documentary films.
In his personal life, Ward is married to writer and social/environmental activist Diane Raines Ward and has three children.
