William Roscoe Thayer (1859–1923) was an American author and editor. He graduated from Harvard in 1881 and became editor of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine in 1892. In 1914, he was elected to The American Academy of Arts and Letters and he received honorary degrees from Harvard, Yale, Brown and other universities.

One of the finer single volume biographies of Washington, Thayer makes ample use of Washington's letters and writings yielding a rich portrait of the man behind the legend.

Files from www.ejunto.com  founded in 2005 by former National Park Service Historian Andrew Julow, the ejunto project is dedicated to providing free quality audio books to the general public. The project is based on the island of North Hero in Lake Champlain, Vermont.

The inspiration and namesake for the project comes from the Junto society founded by a young Benjamin Franklin in 1727. The Junto was free, educational, and devoted to the spread of knowledge. To broaden their horizons members pooled their books together and loaned freely to others. Franklin later expanded on this model to create the first lending library in America.

The mission of the ejunto project is to bring the spirit of the Junto into the digital age. By bringing together sponsors, recording artists, and listeners, the ejunto project seeks to open the doors of knowledge to every corner of the globe.