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Author Description Geoffrey Champion Ward is an author and screenwriter of various documentary presentations of American history. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1962.<br /><br />He was an editor of <i>American Heritage</i> magazine early in his career. He wrote the television mini-series <i>The Civil War</i> with its director Ken Burns and has collaborated with Burns on every documentary he has made since, including <i>Jazz</i> and <i>Baseball</i>. This work won him five Emmy Awards. The most recent Burns/Ward collaboration, <i>The War</i>, premiered on PBS in September 2007. In addition he co-wrote <i>The West</i>, of which Ken Burns was an executive producer, with fellow historian Dayton Duncan.<br />

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