W. Barksdale Maynard

Author of six books on history since 2002, several of them award-winning, as well as two co-authored business books. Regular lecturer in art history at universities including Johns Hopkins and Princeton since 1997; currently a lecturer in the School of Architecture at Princeton. Highly experienced freelance journalist who has written for more than 30 magazines and newspapers since 1999, including the Washington Post and New York Times. Extensive online publication record including Smithsonian, Psychology Today, and LinkedIn. Regular contributor to Better Homes and Gardens and Colonial Williamsburg Journal as well as to alumni magazines of Princeton (more than 80 articles including several cover stories), Yale, and Harvard. 70 public lectures since 2001, including popular walking tours of the Princeton campus (shown in photograph). My new book is The Brandywine: An Intimate Portrait.