Andrew S. Ward (born 1946) is an American writer of historical nonfiction.

He is a former contributing editor to Atlantic Monthly, commentator for National Public Radio's All Things Considered and columnist for The Washington Post''''. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Works Fits and Starts: The Premature Memoirs of Andrew Ward, Little-Brown (1978), The Blood Seed, McGraw-Hill (1987), Out Here: A Newcomer's Notes from the Great Northwest, Penguin (1992), Our Bones are Scattered: The Cawnpore Massacres and The Indian Mutiny Of 1857, Henry Holt and Co. (1996), Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers, Amistad (2001), River Run Red: The Fort Pillow Massacre in the American Civil War, Penguin (2006), The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves'', Houghton Mifflin (2008),

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