Douglas Brinkley

American author, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities, and professor of history
Rice University

Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University, a CNN Presidential Historian, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. In the world of public history and conservation, he serves on boards at museums, at colleges, and for historical societies.

His multi-volume U.S. environmental history series for HarperCollins — called the Wilderness Cycle — so far includes The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America (winner of the National Outdoor Book Award), The Quiet World: Saving Alaska’s Wilderness Kingdom 1859-1960; and Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America. All three have received global acclaim. He is currently finishing the fourth volume in the series: Silent Spring Revolution: John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Great Environmental Awakening.

Brinkley is a member of the Century Association, the Council of Foreign Relations, and the James Madison Council of the Library of Congress. A Grammy Award winner in jazz, he lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Anne and three children.