T. H. Watkins

Thomas Henry Watkins (March 29, 1936 — February 23, 2000) was an American magazine editor and author primarily between the 1960s to 1990s. As an editor, Watkins primarily worked for The Wilderness Society as their ''Wilderness'' editor from 1982 to 1997. Additional magazines Watkins edited for were ''The American West'' and ''American Heritage''. With these two magazines, Watkins was an associate editor and senior editor.

As a writer, Watkins primarily wrote about Western United States while also releasing two books about the Great Depression. As a biographer, Watkins published a 1991 book about Harold L. Ickes titled ''Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold Ickes, 1874-1952''. That year, ''Righteous Pilgrim'' won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography. His book was also nominated for the 1990 National Book Award for Nonfiction and the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. Apart from writing, Watkins became a Wallace Stegner Distinguished Professor of Western American Studies for Montana State University in the late 1990s. Provided by Wikipedia