Lynn Novick

Lynn Novick is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker. For nearly 30 years, she has been producing and directing films about American history and culture, including some of the top-rated documentaries to have aired on PBS. As a principal collaborator of Ken Burns, these films include Prohibition, Baseball, Jazz, Frank Lloyd Wright, and The War. Upcoming films include a ten-part, 18-hour series, The Vietnam War, a biography of Ernest Hemingway, a multi-part exploration of the history of crime and punishment, and College Behind Bars, the present-day story of a small group of men and women who are earning college degrees while serving time for serious crimes.