Herbert Mitgang, playwright, is author of two one-man plays: Mister Lincoln, which has been staged on and off-Broadway, in England, Canada, Australia, the Republic of China and continues all over the United States; and Adlai, Alone, a play about presidential politics, featuring Adlai El Stevenson. He is also a journalist (a former New York Times editorial writer and book critic, and a contributor to The New Yorker) and author of 17 books of fact and fiction, among them, Abraham Lincoln: A Press Portrait, Dangerous Dossiers: FBI Files on Authors and Artists and Newsmen in Khaki: Tales of a World War II Soldier-Correspondent. As an adjunct professor, Mitgang has taught writing at Yale University and the City College of New York. A Pulitzer Prize finalist in biography, his writing honors include the George Polk career award. He is a Fellow of the Society of American Historians and a member of The Dramatists Guild of America.
