Henry Wiencek
Henry Wiencek is an American journalist, historian and editor whose work has encompassed historically significant architecture, the Founding Fathers, various topics relating to slavery, and the Lego company. In 1999, The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White, a biographical history which chronicles the racially intertwined Hairston clan of the noted Cooleemee Plantation House, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography.
Books
Master of the mountain
2012
ISBN 9780374534028- No cover
Les Souverains de l'ancien Mexique
1983
ISBN 9782734401575 
Mansions of the Virginia gentry
1988
ISBN 9780848707552
Storm across Asia
1980
ISBN 9780150040293
The lords of Japan
1982
ISBN 9780867060720
The world of LEGO toys
1987
ISBN 9780810923621
Plantations of the Old South
1988
ISBN 9780848707583
Southern New England
1989
ISBN 9781556706332
Virginia and the capital region
1989
ISBN 9781556700583
Die Herrscher von Japan
1989
ISBN 9783881996228
Old Houses
1995
ISBN 9781556704048
The Hairstons
1999
ISBN 9781250276155
National Geographic Guide to Americas Great Houses
1999
ISBN 9780792274247
An Imperfect God
2003
ISBN 9780374175269
Imperfect God
2004
ISBN 9780374529512
The Moodys of Galveston and their mansion
2010
ISBN 9781603441827
Stan and Gus
2025
ISBN 9780374162498