Geoffrey C. Ward

Ward describes being asked to write the script for Huey Long after meeting Burns at his house in Walpole, New Hampshire.

[4] His script for the documentary Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, won the Writers Guild of America Award in 2005,[5] and the accompanying book won the 2006 William Hill Sports Book of the Year[6][7] and the Anisfield-Wolf Award for best biography.

He has helped academic historians understand the possibilities, limits, and demands of what has become the medium through which most Americans now get their history.

[12] His essays and pieces on India have appeared in a wide array of publications, including Geo, Audubon, National Geographic, Smithsonian, Aperture and others.

In 2011, he wrote an introduction for the book Varanasi: Portrait of a Civilization, (Collins, India,) by the photographer Raghu Rai, with whom he has collaborated on magazine pieces.

After the documentary Jazz was aired on public television, in an interview in the New York Times, Ward spoke of playing West End Blues by Louis Armstrong, as a 15-year-old student, so often that the bartender in the Paris cafe across the street from his student housing called him 'Satchmo': "I must have played it a thousand times," he remembered.

[18] He describes hearing Louis Armstrong's recording of "West End Blues" on the radio while in the hospital and noted its profound impact on his life.

[20] Ward considers British broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough to be "the best television writer in the history of the medium.