Thomas Hoving (1931–2009)

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1. Thomas Hoving

   Author of Making the Mummies Dance : Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tutankhamun: The Untold Story, King of the Confessors

2. Barbara W. Tuchman

   Author of A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War: 1890–1914, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45

3. I. E. S. Edwards

   Author of Treasures of Tutankhamun, The Pyramids of Egypt

4. Iain Pears

   Author of The Immaculate Deception, Giotto's Hand, Death and Restoration

5. Andrew Wyeth

   Author of Wyeth at Kuerners, Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth: A Conversation with Andrew Wyeth

6. John Romer

   Author of Valley of the Kings, Ancient Lives: Daily Life in Egypt of the Pharaohs

7. Ross King

   Author of Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture, Michelangelo & The Pope's Ceiling, Ex-Libris

8. E. A. Wallis Budge

   Author of Egyptian Language, The Mummy

9. Nicholas Reeves

   Author of The Complete Tutankhamun: The King, the Tomb, the Royal Treasure (King Tut), The Complete Valley of the Kings: Tombs and Treasures of Egypt's Greatest Pharaohs (Complete)

10. Nicholas A. Basbanes

    Author of A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books, Patience & Fortitude, Among the Gently Mad: Strategies and Perspectives for the Book-Hunter in the 21st Century

11. Henry Petroski

    Author of The Book on the Bookshelf, The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They, To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design

12. Stephen Jay Gould

    Author of Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin, The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History, Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown

13. Howard Carter

    Author of The Tomb of Tutankhamen

14. Witold Rybczynski

    Author of A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century, Waiting for the Weekend

15. Robert Hughes, 1938-

    Author of The Fatal Shore, The Shock of the New, Goya

16. Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt

    Author of Tutankhamen

17. Michael Gross

    Author of Rogues' Gallery: The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money that Made the Metropolitan Museum

18. Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn

    Author of The Riddle of the Pyramids

19. Calvin Tomkins

    Author of Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

20. Carl Little

    Author of The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer: His Art, His Light, His Landscapes