A native of Seattle, David M. Kennedy, currently a Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, has taught history at Stanford University since 1967. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Florence, Italy, and in1995-96 served as the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. He is the author of Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger (1970), which won the Bancroft Prize, Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1980), which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and with Thomas A. Bailey and Lizabeth Cohen, The American Pageant (11th ed., 1998), an American history textbook.

Mr. Kennedy lives in Stanford, CA.