Edwin S. Grosvenor is a writer, and the editor-in-chief of American Heritage

American Heritage (magazine)

American Heritage is a quarterly magazine dedicated to covering the history of the United States for a mainstream readership. Until 2007, the magazine was published by Forbes. Since that time, Edwin S...

magazine.

Prior to purchasing the latter from Forbes

Forbes

Forbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, the Forbes magazine, is published biweekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published biweekly, and Business Week...

, he was involved in a number of publishing and software enterprises, including Portfolio

Portfolio Magazine

Portfolio Magazine, also known as Portfolio, The Magazine of the Visual Arts, was published bimonthly from April/May 1979 to September/October 1983. The editor was Edwin S. Grosvenor, who was also editor-in-chief of American Heritage magazine. Portfolio Magazine was published by Portfolio...

, a fine arts magazine published in the 1970s and '80s. He is also 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-great-grandfather.