Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Edwin S. Grosvenor (born September 17, 1951) is a writer, the editor-in-chief of American Heritage magazine, and the great-grandson of Alexander Graham Bell. His father was Melville Bell Grosvenor (November 26, 1901 – April 22, 1982), a former president of the National Geographic Society.Prior to purchasing American Heritage from Forbes, he was involved in a number of publishing and software enterprises, including Portfolio, a fine arts magazine published in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1996, he founded KnowledgeMax, an online bookseller and elearning company, which merged with Sideware Systems in 2000. The resulting company, called KnowledgeMax, Inc., and was publicly traded until 2003.Grosvenor is the author, with Morgan Wesson, of Alexander Graham Bell: The Life and Times of the Man Who Invented the Telephone (Harry N Abrams, 1997), a biography of his great-grandfather. He also authored Try it!: the Alexander Graham Bell Science Activity Kit, published by the National Geographic Society in 1992.Grosvenor is a member of Organization of American Historians and the American Antiquarian Society. He earned a BA from Yale College (1974), an MS (Journalism) from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and an MBA from the Columbia Business School (1976).Grosvenor received the President's Award from Historic Deerfield in 2012.. }
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- Edwin_S._Grosvenor abstract "Edwin S. Grosvenor (born September 17, 1951) is a writer, the editor-in-chief of American Heritage magazine, and the great-grandson of Alexander Graham Bell. His father was Melville Bell Grosvenor (November 26, 1901 – April 22, 1982), a former president of the National Geographic Society.Prior to purchasing American Heritage from Forbes, he was involved in a number of publishing and software enterprises, including Portfolio, a fine arts magazine published in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1996, he founded KnowledgeMax, an online bookseller and elearning company, which merged with Sideware Systems in 2000. The resulting company, called KnowledgeMax, Inc., and was publicly traded until 2003.Grosvenor is the author, with Morgan Wesson, of Alexander Graham Bell: The Life and Times of the Man Who Invented the Telephone (Harry N Abrams, 1997), a biography of his great-grandfather. He also authored Try it!: the Alexander Graham Bell Science Activity Kit, published by the National Geographic Society in 1992.Grosvenor is a member of Organization of American Historians and the American Antiquarian Society. He earned a BA from Yale College (1974), an MS (Journalism) from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and an MBA from the Columbia Business School (1976).Grosvenor received the President's Award from Historic Deerfield in 2012.".