~Over 25 years of experience as a full-time freelance writer and author, with an emphasis on history, business and finance
~Capabilities include nonfiction trade books, humor, company and family histories, corporate ghostwriting, marketing materials and web content
~Former staff reporter, The Wall Street Journal; former writer, BusinessWeek
~B.A., Middlebury College
Books Include:
The Graybar Story (2009, Greenwich Publishing Group): The history of Graybar Electric Company, a major distributor of electrical products and one of the largest employee-owned firms in the world.
Signature of Excellence (2005, Greenwich Publishing Group): The history of Ball Corporation, best known for a product it no longer
makes – Ball canning jars, used by generations of American homemakers. The book tells the story of the Ball family and its jar
business, and Ball Corporation's emergence as a global packaging giant
listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
The Gottesman Family (Bellmore Books, 2005): The story of the Gottesmans of New York and their family business, Central National-Gottesman Inc.
A Sense of Higher Design:
The Kohlers of Kohler (2003): The history of plumbing-products
manufacturer Kohler Co., the Kohler family and the Village of Kohler, Wisconsin.
Menasha Corporation: An Odyssey of Five Generations
(1999): The story of the Smiths of Menasha, Wisconsin, and their $1
billion-a-year packaging, printing and timber business, which has been
family owned since 1849.
Doing It My Way,
co-authored with Winton M. Blount (1996): The autobiography of Winton
"Red" Blount. Blount, who died in 2002, was a World War II bomber
pilot; founder and CEO of construction firm Blount International, Inc.;
president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; behind-the-scenes Republican
Party operative; personal friend of Presidents Nixon, Ford, Bush and
Bush; U.S. Postmaster General; and
primary financial backer of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, one of
the nation's leading regional theater companies. Columnist Bob Ingram
wrote in the Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser, "Once I started reading it, I couldn't put the book down. It's fascinating, it's exciting, it's amusing."
Johnson & Higgins at 150 Years (1995): The history of one of the nation's oldest and best-known insurance brokers.
The New York Stock Exchange: The First 200 Years (1992): The history of the NYSE. A revised and updated version, The New York Stock Exchange: Another Century, was published in 1999.
Federal Paper Board at Seventy-Five
(1991): The story of the company; its founder, William Shortess; and
the Kennedy family, which controlled and managed the firm for 50 years
before selling it to International Paper in 1996. I also wrote a
supplement, Federal Paper Board: The Final Chapters, which updated the story and chronicled the sale.
Photographs: A Collector's Guide (Ballantine Books, 1979). Selection of the Popular Photography Book Club and the Macmillan Book Club. ARTnews called the book "the best introduction to the subject available."
How To Make Money in the Art Market (Wyden, 1975). Library Journal said the professionals quoted in the text "enliven the book by relating
colorful, often humorous stories about their experiences. A fine
reference tool."
The New York Times Book of Money (Times Books, 1973): A personal finance book that was a selection of the Book of the Month Club and was on The Washington Post paperback bestseller list.
Contributor to Tools of the Writer's Trade (Harper Collins, 1990) and The Complete Guide to Writing Non-Fiction (Writer's Digest Books, 1983).
Recent Clients Include:
Arch Capital Group Ltd.
Boston University
Oppenheimer Capital
JPMorgan Chase
Professional Membership:
American Society of Journalists and Authors; former treasurer.
