Kenneth W. Noe is an American historian whose primary interests are the American Civil War, Appalachia and the American South. He has most recently published The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War. Born in Richmond, Virginia in 1957, he grew up in Elliston, Virginia. He received his B.A. from Emory & Henry College, M.A. from Virginia Tech in 1981, and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1990. He was a finalist for the Lincoln Prize, and twice a Pulitzer Prize entrant, for his books Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle, and The Howling Storm. In 2021 he retired as the Draughon Professor of Southern History at Auburn University in Alabama. Bibliography Pulitzer Prize Entrant, 2020; Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Finalist, 2021 History Book Club Alternate Selection, 2001; Pulitzer Prize Entrant, 2001; Peter Seaborg Book Award for Civil War Non-Fiction, 2002; Kentucky Governor's Award, 2003 Tennessee History Book Award, 1997 References External links Interview with Kenneth W. Noe on ''Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined the Army after 1861 https://kennethwnoe.com Historians of the American Civil War Living people 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers 1957 births Emory and Henry College alumni University of Illinois alumni Virginia Tech alumni Auburn University faculty People from Richmond, Virginia People from Montgomery County, Virginia Historians from Virginia American male non-fiction writers