Richard Cahan is a journalist and author who writes about photography, art and history, with one of his many publications being The Monroe Building: A Chicago Masterpiece Rediscovered. He worked for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1983 to 1999, during which time he acted primarily as the paper’s picture editor. He is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books, with his latest release Un-American, about the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Cahan currently is an independent scholar at Chicago IL’s Newberry Library, where his belief in the power of words and pictures continues to drive him to create.