Joseph Gustaitis is a Chicago-based freelance writer and editor. He received his AB from Dartmouth College and his MA and PhD in history from Columbia University. He is the author of many popular history magazine articles. After working as an editor at Collier's Year Book, he became the humanities editor for Collier's Encyclopedia. He has also worked in television and won an Emmy Award for writing for ABC-TV's FYI program. His previous books are Chicago's Greatest Year, 1893: The White City and the Birth of a Modern Metropolis and Chicago Transformed: World War I and the Windy City.
