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Megan Kate Nelson

Photograph by Sharona Jacobs

About The Author

Megan Kate Nelson is a writer and historian living in Lincoln, Massachusetts. She has written about the Civil War, US western history, and American culture for The New York TimesThe Washington PostThe Atlantic, Time, and Smithsonian Magazine. Nelson earned her BA in history and literature from Harvard University and her PhD in American studies from the University of Iowa. She is the author of Saving Yellowstone, The Three-Cornered WarRuin Nation, and Trembling Earth.

Books by Megan Kate Nelson