Writer Experience

Geoffrey Ward is a seven time Emmy Award-winning and two-time Writers’ Guild Award-winning screenwriter, author, editor, and historian. Geoffrey has collaborated with Ken Burns since 1984 and has been the sole or principal script writer for Huey Long; Statue of Liberty; Thomas Hart Benton; The Civil War; Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio; Baseball; The West; Thomas Jefferson; Frank Lloyd Wright; Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony; Jazz; Mark Twain; Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, The War, and The Vietnam War. He also wrote or co-wrote companion volumes for ten of these series. Geoffey was the principal or sole writer of Nixon; Lindbergh; Reminiscing in Tempo; The Kennedys; The Last Boss; TR; and Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided - all part of PBS’ “American Experience” series. Geoffrey is also an independent historian and biographer, the author of nine books, among them A First-Class Temperament: the Emergence of Frankli