Lawrence H. Suid - Formal Biography

Lawrence Suid is both a film and a military historian. His first book Guts & Glory (Addison-Wesley, 1978) became the definitive study of the relationship between the film industry and the armed services. The University Press of Kentucky published a revised, expanded edition of the book in June 2002, which carries the story through Pearl Harbor to Black Hawk Down and We Were Soldiers. Dr. Suid’s previous book Sailing on the Silver Screen (The Naval Institute Press, 1996) focused on the symbiotic relationship between the United States Navy and the motion picture industry. In 2005, Scarecrow Press published“Stars and Stripes on Screen,” which Dr. Suid wrote with Dolores Haverstick. It contains a comprehensive guide to the portrayal of the U.S. military in feature films, a representative sample of TV films and mini-series, and of documentaries. Dr. Suid is currently collaborating with Ms. Haverstick on a biography of Fred Zinnemann, director of High Noon, From Here to Eternity, and Man for All Seasons.

     He is also the author of The Army’s Nuclear Power Program: The Evolution of a Support Agency (Greenwood Press, 1990), A History of Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (Government Printing Office, 1992), and editor of Volume Four of Film & Propaganda: A Documentary History (Greenwood Press, 1991). In addition, he has written essays for The Oxford Companion to American Military History (Oxford University Press, 2000), The Marines (High Lauter Levin, 1998), To Die Gallantly: The Battle of the Atlantic (Westview Press, 1993), The Twentieth Century: Mirrors of the Mind (Hunter Textbooks, 1991), and American History/American Film (Ungar, 1979).
     He has appeared on the History Channel, PBS, CNN, CBS’s “Saturday Night with Connie Chung,” ABC’s “20/20” and the Evening News with Peter Jennings, Fox Cable Morning News, C-Span, Turner Classic Movies, networks in Germany and Korea, and numerous radio programs. He has been included in the 2004 to 2009 volumes of Who’s Who in America. Dr. Suid received a 2008 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to complete the writing of his biography of Fred Zinnemann.
     Dr. Suid received his B.A. from Western Reserve University, a Master’s degree in Russian history from Duke University, a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Film from Brandeis University, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Case Western Reserve University. He lives in Greenbelt, Maryland.

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