Native Hoosier Ray E. Boomhower has worked at the Indiana Historical Society since 1987, serving as editor of the society's popular history magazine, Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History, since 1999. He is the author of numerous articles and books on the nineteenth state, including biographies of such notable Hoosiers as Gus Grissom, Ernie Pyle, Lew Wallace and May Wright Sewall. In 1998, he received the Hoosier Historian Award from the IHS, and in 2010, he was named winner of the Regional Author Award in the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards.