Philip Kopper

A journalist, author, editor, and publisher, Philip Kopper has written numerous books including America’s National Gallery of Art, the authoritative history of that cultural landmark in the nation’s capital; Colonial Williamsburg, a portrait of the prototype outdoor history museum; and National Museum of Natural History, which Book World’s lead reviewer called “a museum in itself.” His oeuvre ranges from The Wild Edge, anatural historyof beaches, to an original retelling of the Nativity story in AChristmas Testament, and The Smithsonian Book of NorthAmerican Indians, an introduction to archaeology and prehistory of North America. A seasoned collaborator and ghostwriter for the likes of “Tommy the Cork” Corcoran, Roger Tory Peterson and others, he contributed to such works as National Geographic Society’s one-volume historyof the Civil War, The Blue and the Gray, and AField Guide to the Birds of North America. Formerly a reporter and cultural critic for The Washington Post, he served as publications director of the National Endowment for the Arts until 1995 when he founded prize-winning Posterity Press, Inc., the venturepublishing enterprise. Kopper first became interested in architecture when he audited a course taught by the legendary Vincent Scully at Yale, where he majored in history, served as an officer of the Yale Daily News and belonged to Manuscript, a senior society.

William R. Mitchell, Jr.

William R. Mitchell, Jr. (Email) was a founding trustee of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation in 1973. He is a cultural historian, historic preservationist, lecturer, and award-winning author. His monographs on Southern architects include Lewis Edmund Crook, Jr., Architect (1984), The Architecture of Wm. Frank McCall, Jr., F.A.I.A. (1985), The Residential Architecture of Henry Sprott Long and Associates (1991), McCall: A Continuing Tradition (1992), Edward Vason Jones: Architect, Connoisseur, and Collector (1995), J. Neel Reid, Architect, of Hentz, Reid & Adler and the Georgia School of Classicists (1997), and The Architecture of James Means, Georgia Classicist (2001). In addition, Mitchell was the author of Landmark Homes of Georgia, 1733–1983 (1983), Classic Savannah (1987), Gardens of Georgia (1989), Classic Atlanta (1991), and Classic New Orleans (1993). An Atlanta native and ninth-generation Georgian, he is a founding trustee of the Southern Architecture Foundation, Inc., created to promote understanding and appreciation of Southern architecture and associated arts.

Van Jones Martin

Van Jones Martin is a native of coastal Georgia who has been documenting art and architecture since 1972. Working with Mills Lane, he photographed thousands of antebellum buildings over a twenty-year collaboration for the Beehive Press series The Architecture of the Old South. In 1978 he formed Golden Coast Publishing Company to publish and produce a variety of books focusing primarily on the architects and architecture of the South.

James R. Lockhart

James R. Lockhart is a resident of Atlanta, Georgia. He has been the photographer for the State of Georgia's Historic Preservation Division since 1978, during which time he has provided photodocumentation for more than 1,400 nominations to the National Register of Historic Places. He has served as contributing photographer to The Residential Architecture of Henry Sprott Long and Associates, Classic Atlanta, and McCall: A Continuing Tradition, and as primary photographer for Classic New Orleans and J. Neel Reid, Architect, of Hentz, Reid & Adler and the Georgia School of Classicists. He is assisted in many of his photographic endeavors by his wife, Mary Lee Lockhart.

Douglas Lewis

Douglas Lewis has been Curator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington since 1968 and since 1974 a member of the Advisory Council of the Palladian Center (CISA) in Vicenza. Among his one hundred publications are The Late Baroque Churches of Venice (1979) and The Drawings of Andrea Palladio (the first edition of this book, 1981); shortly forthcoming are Palladio’s Villa Cornaro at Piombino Dese (2001) and Longhena and his Patrons: the Creation of the Venetian Baroque (in preparation).

Randolph Delehanty

Randolph Delehanty is an author and historian. Among his other books are New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence (with photographer Richard Sexton), and San Francisco: The Ultimate Guide.

Martin & St. Martin

From Martin & St. Martin Publishing Company

Martin & St. Martin Publishing Company was formed in New Orleans in 1990 to support the production of books relevant to the study of classical architecture. With the cooperation and encouragement of the Center for Palladian Studies in America, Paul St. Martin is pursuing a publishing course of thoughtful scholarship and beautiful design.