Jay Winik was born on February 8,1957 and is a New York Times best-selling author and American historian who is best known for his book April 1865: The Month That Saved America.
11 Facts About Jay Winik
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Jay Winik played on the Yale tennis team and was an editor of the Yale Daily News.
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Jay Winik had a brief career in the US government's foreign policy, involving civil wars around the globe, from the former Yugoslavia to El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Cambodia, including helping to create the United Nations plan to end the Cambodian Civil War.
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Jay Winik is the author of the highly acclaimed, number one bestseller April 1865, which became a History Channel documentary and a stage production, both of which feature him.
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Jay Winik told the NYT that Winik's April 1865 is on his nightstand.
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Jay Winik has appeared on national broadcasts such as The Today Show, Fresh Air and Morning Edition with Scott Simon, CNN, Good Morning America, and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
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Jay Winik has provided historical commentary for documentaries on the History Channel and PBS as well as C-SPAN, and was the Presidential Historian for Fox News for Barack Obama's and Donald Trump's 2017 inaugurations and Senator Ted Kennedy's funeral.
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Jay Winik was a principal history commentator for the History Channel special Pearl Harbor: 24 Hours After.
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Jay Winik serves as a trustee or advisory board member on a number of nonprofit boards, including for American Heritage Magazine, the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, Ford's Theatre Society, and its Lincoln Legacy Project, The Civil War Preservation Trust, the Lincoln Forum, the Washington Tennis and Education Foundation, and the Potomac School, as well as the Governing Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Jay Winik currently serves on the board of trustees for The American Folk Life Center of the Library of Congress, as well as the Veterans History Project of the Library of Congress.
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Jay Winik is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an elected Fellow of the Society of American Historians.