Benson Bobrick earned his doctorate from Columbia University and is the author of several critically acclaimed works, including Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired and Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution. In 2002 he received the Literature Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He and his wife, Hilary, live in Vermont.
Books published in order by series:
| Labyrinths of Iron: A History of the World’s Subways | 1981 |
| Parsons Brinckerhoff: The First Hundred Years | 1985 |
| Fearful Majesty: The Life and Reign of Ivan the Terrible | 1987 |
| East of the Sun: The Epic Conquest and Tragic History of Siberia | 1992 |
| Knotted Tongues: Stuttering in History & the Quest for a Cure | 1995 |
| Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution | 1997 |
| Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution it Inspired | 2001 |
| The Making of the English Bible | 2001 |
| Testament: A Soldier’s Story of the Civil War | 2003 |
| Fight for Freedom: The American Revolutionary War | 2004 |
| The Fated Sky: Astrology in History | 2005 |
| Master of War: The Life of General George H. Thomas | 2009 |
| The Battle of Nashville | 2010 |
| The Caliph’s Splendor: Islam and the West in the Golden Age of Baghdad | 2012 |
| A Passion for Victory: The Story of the Olympics in Ancient and Early Modern Times | 2012 |
| Returning From Afar: A Memoir | 2019 |
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