Henry Wiencek

Education

Yale University.

Career

Wiencek has come to be particularly associated with his work on George Washington and slavery as a result of his book, An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America, which earned him the Los Angeles Times Book Award for history. Partly as a result of this book, Wiencek was named the first-ever Washington College Patrick Henry Fellow, inaugurating a program designed to provide writing fellowships for nationally prominent historians. In 2003, Wiencek was appointed to the board of trustees for the Library of Virginia.

In June 2010, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University Press released The Moodys of Galveston and Their Mansion, a history of the prominent Galveston family and their celebrated home.

Wiencek originally compiled the manuscript after the Moody Mansion opened to the public as a museum, education center, and location for community gatherings in 1991. Wiencek was born and raised in Dorchester, Massachusetts.

He attended Boston College High School, where he was valedictorian. He earned an undergraduate degree from Yale University in 1974 with a double major in Russian Literature and Literary Theory.

Soon after graduating, Wiencek moved to New York City, where he worked for Time-Life, editing and writing for its publications.

Achievements

• In 1999, The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White, a biographical history which chronicles the racially intertwined Hairston clan of the noted Cooleemee Plantation House, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography.

Works

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  • The Smithsonian Guide to Historic America Southern New England (Smithsonian Guides to Historic America)

    (Descriptive text, full-color photographs and specially co...)

  • World of Lego Toys

    (A history of the successful toys, LEGO bricks, describing...)

  • The Moodys of Galveston and Their Mansion (Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities)

    ( In 1900, just a few months after the deadly hurricane o...)

  • Smithsonian Guides to Historic America: Southern New England - Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island (Vol 2)

    (In the SMITHSONIAN GUIDES TO HISTORIC AMERICA series. Inc...)

  • Plantations of the Old South (Great American Homes)

    (Collection of Infamous Plantations of the Old South)

  • The Smithsonian Guide To Historic America: Southern New England
  • An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America
  • An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves and the Creation of America by Henry Wiencek (2004-03-19)
  • Great American Homes: Historic Charleston; Old New Orleans; Mansions of the Virginia Gentry; Plantations of the Old South (4 volumes)
  • The Smithsonian Guide to Historic America Southern New England (Smithsonian Guides to Historic America) Paperback - February, 1989
  • The Moodys of Galveston and Their Mansion (Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities) by Henry Wiencek (2010-05-21)
  • An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America 1st edition by Wiencek, Henry (2003) Hardcover
  • An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America
  • The Smithsonian Guide to Historic America Southern New England (Smithsonian Guides to Historic America) by Henry Wiencek (1989-02-04)
  • The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White
  • The Smithsonian Guide to Historic America, Southern New England:Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island
  • Smithsonian Guides to Historic America: Southern New England - Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island (Vol 2) by Henry Wiencek (1998-03-15)