Marc
Leepson is the author of Saving Monticello: The Levy Family’s
Epic Quest to Rescue the House that Jefferson Built and is a full-time
free-lance writer. A former staff writer for Congressional Quarterly
in Washington, D.C., Leepson has written for many newspapers and magazines,
including Preservation, Smithsonian, the Washington Post, New York Times,
New York Times Book Review and Christian Science Monitor. He also has
been a long-time contributor to the Encyclopedia Americana Yearbook and
since March of 1986, he has been arts editor and columnist for The VVA
Veteran, the newspaper published by Vietnam Veterans of America.
In addition to Saving Monticello, he is the author of three other
books, including the Webster’s New World Dictionary of the Vietnam
War (Macmillan).