Gerard Helferich, a former editor, and publisher, is the author of “Humboldt’s Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Latin American Journey That Changed the Way We See the World.” He lives with his wife in Yazoo City, Mississippi, and San Miguel Allende, Mexico.
Books in order of publication:
Humboldt’s Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Latin American Journey that Changed the Way We See – 2004
High Cotton: Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta – 2007
Stone of Kings: In Search of the Lost Jade of the Maya – 2011
Theodore Roosevelt and the Assassin: Madness, Vengeance, and the Campaign of 1912 – 2013
An Unlikely Trust: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Improbable Partnership That Remade American Business – 2018
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