John E. Selby, 1929-2001, served as William E. Pullen Professor of History and chair of the Department of History and as graduate dean and acting dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences at the College of William and Mary, in addition to being book review editor of the William and Mary Quarterly. He was the author of A Chronology of Virginia and the War of Independence, 1763-1783, Dunmore, and with Warren Billings and Thad Tate, Colonial Virginia: A History.