![]() Working with the American Council of Learned Societies and Oxford University Press, Garraty oversaw the work of more than 6,000 contributors to determine who should be included (especially regarding the addition of women and ethnic minorities) and how sensitive or widely-believed-but-inconclusive data should be handled. ![]() ![]() ![]() Garraty had edited several supplements to the predecessor, the Dictionary of American Biography (1974-88) when he realized that the original work had become so dated, unwieldy, unbalanced, and even inaccurate in light of new discoveries, that only a completely new version could remedy its flaws. Garraty was best known as the general editor of the massive American National Biography (1999), a work of such scope that its index of representative occupations alone runs to 200 pages. Some were histories of the United States many were biographies of the American men and women who made history, for better or worse. During the decades that he taught at Columbia University, lastly as the Gouverneur Morris Professor of History, he wrote or edited dozens of books. Garraty spent his career focused on the lives of others. Educator, historian, biographer, editor, and author. See index for CA sketch: Born July 4, 1920, in Brooklyn, NY died of heart failure, December 19, 2007, in Sag Harbor, NY. ![]() 1920-2007 (John Arthur Garraty) OBITUARY NOTICE. ![]()
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