Biography
Geoffrey C. Ward is an American historian, author and screenwriter. He was born on 30 November 1940 in Newark, Ohio.
Ward has written the scripts for numerous documentary series directed by Ken Burns for public television, including The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), The Vietnam War (2017) and The American Revolution (2025). He has also written or co-written companion books to several of these series.
His work has earned multiple Emmy Awards, two Writers Guild of America Awards, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Parkman Prize. He has collaborated extensively with Burns on projects such as Jazz, The War and The Roosevelts.
