Ed Ward

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Ed Ward (born 1948) is an American writer and radio commenter, known since 1986 as the "rock-and-roll historian" for NPR's program Fresh Air.

Ward attended Antioch College, and began his music-writing career in 1965. He has been on the staff of Crawdaddy! (1967), Rolling Stone (1970), and Creem (1971-1977) magazines, and of the Austin American-Statesman. He was the co-author (with Geoffrey Stokes and Ken Tucker) of Rock of Ages: The Rolling Stone History of Rock & Roll (1983). He is based in Berlin, Germany, where he has lived since 1993, and in addition to his rock and roll history lessons on Fresh Air contributes to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and various music magazines.