Mark Twain

GEOFFREY C. WARD is the author of twelve books, including A First-ClassTemperament, which won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 1990 Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians. He has written or co-written many documentary films, including The Civil War, Baseball, and Jazz.DAYTON DUNCAN is the author of five books, including Out West: An American Journey and Lewis & Clark (with Ken Burns). He has been a consultant on many of Ken Burns’s films, including Lewis & Clark, and was also the co-writer and consulting producer of the PBS series The West.KEN BURNS, founder of Florentine Films, is a director, producer, and writer who has been making documentaries for more than twenty years. His landmark film The Civil War was the highest-rated series in the history of American public television, and his work has won numerous prizes, including the Emmy and Peabody Awards.