Roger Place Butterfield

• National Affairs Mgr. for Life Magazine
• Author of The American Past : History of the United States from Concord to Hiroshima (1775-1845) ; (1947) Simon and Schuster One thousand Drawings, political cartoons, pictures, & photographs which took him four years to compile and write. 476 pages with credits and index

Before his tenure at Life magazine, he worked at the Phia. Evening Bulletin and at the Public Ledger and was a roving reporter for Time Magazine.
He also wrote Detetive stories for McFadden's True Detective Mysteries

• book review of American Past in 1948
  • The Kansas City Star 12 Mar 1948, Fri ·Page 22 • https://www.newspapers.com/image/655785050/?terms=Ethelind%20Butter...
• wrote a book, Roger Butterfield's book Al Schmid Marine which was adapted in a screen play for the movie "Pride of the Marines" nominated for an Academy Award (1948)