Elaine S. Povich is an award-winning Washington journalist and author of three books, including John McCain: A Biography (Greenwood). She has reported from Washington for UPI, the Chicago Tribune , Newsday , and, currently, Stateline . Povich is a recipient of the prestigious Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress, among other prizes. She is an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a member of the Gridiron Club, and is a past president of the Washington Press Club Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promotes journalistic history and issues. Ken Burns, the producer and director of numerous documentary films including The Vietnam War , The Roosevelts: An Intimate History , and The War , cofounded the documentary film company Florentine Films in 1976. His landmark documentary The Civil War was the highest-rated series in the history of American Public Television. His work has won numerous prizes, including fifteen Emmy® Awards, two GRAMMY® Awards, and two Oscar® nominations; and in September 2008, at the News & Documentary Emmy® Awards, Ken was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

He lives in NH.