Authors

Sean Wilentz

Sean Wilentz is the author of Bob Dylan in America (2010) and The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005), for which he won the Bancroft Prize. He is the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor of the American Revolutionary Era at Princeton University. Wilentz’s father and uncle were co-owners of the legendary Eighth Street Bookshop in Greenwich Village, and he grew up in the world that Fred W. McDarrah captured with his lens. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.