Scott Reynolds Nelson

Scott Reynolds Nelson
Born	1964
Genre	non-fiction
Subject	arts
Notable works	Steel Drivin' Man, Oceans of Grain
Notable awards	Marfield Prize Merle Curti Award Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction
Spouse	Cindy Hahamovitch (1985-present)

Scott Reynolds Nelson is the Georgia Athletic Association Professor of History at the University of Georgia. He was formerly the Legum Professor of History at the College of William and Mary. He is a historian of the Long Nineteenth Century. He specializes in Labor history, international finance, the history of science, and global commodities.

Awards received

for Steel Drivin' Man

• 2006 National Award for Arts Writing
• 2007 Merle Curti Award
• 2007 Anisfield-Wolf Award
• 2007 Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction

for Ain't Nothing But a Man

• 2008 Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year
• 2009 Aesop Prize (Folklore Society of America)
• 2009 Jane Addams Prize, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
• 2009 Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts, National Center for Teachers of English
• 2009 American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults

Works

• Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and Reconstruction. UNC Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-8078-4803-6. Scott Reynolds Nelson.
• Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend. Oxford University Press. 2006. ISBN -9780195341195. Scott Reynolds Nelson.
• Scott Reynolds Nelson; Carol Sheriff (2007). A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America's Civil War. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-514654-7. Scott Reynolds Nelson.
• Scott Reynolds Nelson; Marc Aronson (2008). Ain't Nothing But A Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry. National Geographic Books. ISBN 978-1-4263-0000-4. Scott Reynolds Nelson.
• A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters. Random House Digital, Inc. 2012. ISBN 978-0-307-96105-1.
• Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World. Basic Books. 2022. ISBN 978-1-5416-4646-9.

External links

• "Author's website"
• Nicole Stockdale (November 25, 2008). "Scott Reynolds Nelson: Our downturn is more 1873 than 1929". The Dallas Morning News.
• "Interview with Scott Reynolds Nelson", Sound Authors Radio, January 9, 2009
• "The depression of 1929 is the wrong model for the current economic crisis", Chronicle of Higher Education, 10-17-08
• "How the Crash Will Reshape America", The Atlantic, Richard Florida
• "Interview with Scott Reynolds Nelson", Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program, February 4, 2010
• "Attribution Lacking, or, The Day a Dutch Newspaper Stole My Grandmother", Chronicle of Higher Education, April 24, 2009