Willard Sterne Randall

After a successful seventeen-year career as a feature writer for the Philadelphia Bulletin, magazine writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, investigative journalist for Philadelphia Magazine and stringer for Time-Life News Service, Willard Sterne Randall pursued advanced studies in history at Princeton University. Biographer of Benjamin and William Franklin, of Benedict Arnold, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Ethan Allen, he has co-authored collections of biographies and e-books with his wife, Nancy Nahra. His most recent book is Unshackling America: How the War of 1812 Truly Ended the American Revolution, a history of the Revolutionary era. As a journalist, Randall won the National Magazine Award for Public Service from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, the Standard Gravure Award, the Hillman Prize, the Loeb Award and the John Hancock Prize. His Benedict Arnold biography received four national awards and was a New York Times Notable Book. Publishers Weekly chose his biography of Jefferson as one of the ten best biographies of 1993. He received the Award of Merit of the American Revolution Round Table. He taught American history at John Cabot University in Rome, the University of Vermont and Champlain College, where he is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus. He is a frequent contributor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, which awarded him the 2019 Thomas Fleming Prize for Outstanding Military History Writing. He lives, writes, teaches, lectures and likes to swim in Burlington, Vermont.