Ray E Boomhower is senior editor with the Indiana Historical Society Press, where he edits the quarterly popular history magazine Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History. His previous books include biographies of author and Civil War general Lew Wallace, famed Hoosier war correspondent Ernie Pyle, suffragette and peace activist May Wright Sewell, World War II photographer John A. Bushemi, and astronaut Gus Grisson. In 1998 Boomhower received the IHS's Hoosier Historian honor.