Dayton Duncan
History & Biography Pavilion
4:35 - 5:05 pm
Book Signing
3 - 4 pm
Dayton Duncan is an award-winning writer and documentary filmmaker and the author of nine books. Out West: A Journey Through Lewis & Clark’s America (2001) chronicles his retracing of the Lewis and Clark trail; it was a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate selection and finalist for the Western Writers of America’s Spur Award. Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (1997) and Mark Twain (2001) are companion books to documentary films he wrote and produced with Ken Burns. Dayton was a consultant on Burns’ award-winning series for public television “The Civil War,” “Baseball” and “Jazz.” He is also Burns’collaborator on The National Parks: America’s Best Idea book and the documentary of the same name. Duncan lives in New Hampshire.