Richard J. Dewhurst is the author of The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America - The Missing Skeletons and the Great Smithsonian Cover-up. He is the Emmy Award–winning writer of the HBO feature docu mentary Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. A graduate of NYU with degrees in journalism, film, and television, he has written and edited for the History Channel, the Arts & Entertainment Channel, PBS, Fox Television and Fox Films, ABC News, TNT, Paramount Pictures, and the Miami Herald. He lives in Vermont with his wife Maxine and son Charles.