Alan Pell Crawford is the author of “Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman – and the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth Century America” and “Twilight at Monticello”. His writings have appeared in “American History”, “The Washington Post”, and “The New York Times”. He is a regular book reviewer for “The Wall Street Journal”. Crawford has had a residential fellowship at the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello. A former resident of Washington, DC, he lives in Richmond, Virginia, with his wife Sally Curran, the editor of My VMFA, the quarterly magazine of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. They are the parents of two sons, Ned and Tim.
Books in order of publication:
Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman—and the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-Century America – 2000
Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson – 2008
How Not to Get Rich: The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain – 2014
This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America’s Revolutionary War in the South – 2024
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