John Younker Simon (June 25, 1933 – July 8, 2008)[1] was an American Civil War scholar known for editing the papers of Ulysses S. Grant.
Simon had MA and PhD history degrees from Harvard University.
He received the Lincoln Prize Special Achievement Award in 2004 from the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College for his then-24, later 31 volume Grant series.
[2] The same year, he also received The Lincoln Forum's Richard Nelson Current Award of Achievement.
-- Geoffrey Perret, author of Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier & President