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Historical Authors
Alka Joshi
Born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, Alka Joshi has lived in the U.S. since the age of nine. She graduated from Stanford University and worked in the fields of advertising and PR before starting her own marketing consultancy in 1995. In 2011, she obtained her MFA in Creative Writing from the…
Allison Pittman
Allison Pittman is an award-winning author of fourteen novels in the Christian historical fiction space. Her novels span the centuries from the Protestant Reformation (Loving Luther, Tyndale) to the American Dust Bowl (On Shifting Sand, Tyndale). When not writing, Allison works as a freelance editor for The Christian Communicator and…
Barbara N. McLennan
BARBARA MCLENNAN has lived in Williamsburg since 2001. Formerly with the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments, and former Vice President for Government Affairs of the Electronic Industries Association (consumer electronics), she has provided consulting services on investment, valuation, trade and tax issues. Over the last several years, Dr. McLennan has served…
Bradley Harper
COL (ret) Bradley Harper is a retired US Army pathologist with real-life experience in forensic death investigation, and he uses that experience in his writing. His debut novel, A Knife in the Fog, involves a young Arthur Conan Doyle and suffragette author Margaret Harkness in the hunt for Jack the…
Cassandra Finnerty
Cassandra is the author of action-adventure, fantasy and romance. She loves to create bold, untamed and endearing characters who struggle to overcome their flaws. Her fondness for western Ireland – with its rugged shores, hidden caves and wind-swept cliffs — inspired many settings in the Princess of Nature Series. Cassandra…
Christine Davis Merriman
Christine Davis Merriman completed her MFA in Imaginative Writing/Fiction at UMass Amherst forty years ago. As an undergrad, she won Towson State University’s John S. Lewis Fiction Award for a collection of short stories, and was eager to pursue a career in fiction. Then “life” intervened, with marriage, a son,…
Claudia Keenan
Claudia Keenan is a historian of American education (PhD, New York University). She has taught at Emory, Henry College and the University of Virginia extension and has published on such varied topics as the image of the First Lady, the history of the suburban P.T.A., and the philosopher George S.…
David G. Thomas
DAVID G. THOMAS is an author, historian, filmmaker, producer, actor, screenwriter and travel writer. He is the Associate Producer of the 2019 documentary film The Wonder of the Century, based on the author’s book on Giovanni Maria de Agostini, an Eighteenth Century world traveler. David is also the co-founder of…
Deborah Curtin
Art and writing have always been the core of Deborah’s background. An opportunity to write "human interest" stories for a local newspaper opened up and she excelled in this endeavor. Several years later she began a column of local interest for an online publication. Soon another writing avenue spoke to…
Ellen Gibson-Adler
Ellen Gibson-Adler was born in Tokyo during the American military occupation of Japan following WWII. She grew up in the nomadic travels of a military family, which took her from Japan to Alaska, Ohio, Texas, Louisiana and Massachusetts. She graduated with honors from the University of Massachusetts at Boston with…
Frances Schoonmaker
Winner of the 2019 Agatha Award for Best Middle Grade/Young Adult Mystery, Frances Schoonmaker is author of The Last Crystal Trilogy (Auctus Publishing). The trilogy combines history, mystery, and fantasy around the central theme that there are some things only a child can do because children imagine possibilities adults often…
George Robert Minkoff
A rare book dealer for fifty-two years, George Robert Minkoff is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America as well as the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. Minkoff currently serves as Secretary on the Board of Directors of the Poetry Society of America. George Robert Minkoff Inc. Rare…
Harry Swanson
Harry Swanson had worked in Finance and Administration for 45 years and is now retired. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and a Master’s Degree in Business and Finance. Harry works under such titles as Controller, Director of Finance and Administration, CFO and Financial Management Consultant for both large…
Ivan Obolensky
Ivan Obolensky was born in New York and educated in the US and the UK. He began by writing nonfiction articles on economics, finance, history and other social sciences. Inspired by stories about his grandmother, Alice Astor (who died while reading an Egyptian Book of the Dead and was an…
J. O. Quantaman
J. O. has worked as a fishing guide, a photographer, street traffic consultant, a software developer and graphic artist. Currently, he's an indie author and publisher. Founder of Psignologic Services since 1995. Read BookTrib's review of J. O.'s book, Loose Threads. BOOKS: Loose Threads: Cool Assassins 1 (2018) Hot…
John DeSimone
John DeSimone is a novelist, memoirist and editor. He’s co-authored bestselling memoirs, including The Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan, and others. He taught writing as an adjunct professor at Biola University, and has worked as a freelance editor and writer for nearly twenty years. His novel, The Road…
Justin C. Denton
Justin Denton is an investigative journalist, military historian, a certified business continuity (and pandemic) planner (CBCP), as well as a certified information systems security professional (CISSP). As such, he has written or reviewed countless pandemic plans and recovery protocols as well as investigated many breaches of information system security. Denton…
Karen Schutte
The oldest of four daughters, I was born during WWII on a farm in rural Wyoming. I went to the first 8 grades in a two-room school then on to Greybull High School and the University of WY. I read everything I could get my hands on. I always had…
Katherine Nouri Hughes
Iraqi-Irish by birth, KATHERINE NOURI HUGHES attended Princeton University, where she earned a Master’s Degree in Near Eastern Studies and where she served on that department’s advisory council for 25 years. After living in Cairo and traveling extensively in the region, she returned to the United States and was a…
Kelli Estes
KELLI ESTES earned a degree in business before deciding to try her hand at writing. Six manuscripts, two kids and fifteen years later, her dream of being an author came true in 2015 with the publication of The Girl Who Wrote in Silk, a USA Today Bestseller and winner of the…
Kenneth F. Conklin
Ken Conklin, a native of Los Angeles, lives in Botetourt County in southwestern Virginia. His essays have been published in the Roanoke Times and other publications such as the Victoria Advocate, Easy Reader and Microwave Journal. Norvel is his first book. (Read BookTrib's review here.) Although always a writer, he made…
Leah Garriott
Though she earned degrees in math and statistics, Leah Garriott lives for a good love story. She's resided in Hawaii and Italy, walked the countryside of England, and owns every mainstream movie version of Pride and Prejudice. She's currently living her own happily ever after in Utah with her husband…
Linda A. Broenniman
Linda grew up in Buffalo, New York. She is the middle child of seven, born to Hungarian physicians who survived World War II and started their new life in the US in 1949. Linda graduated from Swarthmore College with a BA in psychology and from the Tepper School of Business…
Lori Hart Beninger
Lori Hart Beninger is the author of three critically acclaimed historical novels (Embracing the Elephant, A Veil of Fog and Flames and A Peculiar Peace). The books follow two 19th century teenagers as they struggle with survival and acceptance in the pivotal era of the California Gold Rush, survive the wilds of…
M.L. Huie
M. L. Huie is a writer, teacher and actor. In addition to working as a features journalist, he has written several plays that have been performed throughout the U.S. and in the U.K. Spitfire is his first novel. Read our review of Spitfire here. BOOKS: Spitfire (2020) Biggest literary influencers: Mick…
Nancy Bilyeau
NANCY BILYEAU is a magazine writer and editor who has worked on the staffs of Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, and InStyle. She is currently a contributor to Town & Country, Closer, Lifetime/A&E, First for Women, and The Vintage News and the deputy editor at the Center on Media, Crime and…
Paul Budden
We are invited to join a journey with the author which he had no intention of travelling upon, indeed did not even know existed, but which has since becoming unfurled occupied many a waking hour. That uncovers what is believed to be the true story of a shady gentleman called…
Phillip Goodrich
An amateur American history buff, Phillip Goodrich has developed a fascination with the lesser-told stories behind the characters during America’s founding years. His interest has led him to extensive research into the personal and political lives of American greats such as Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Through his…
Randall Howlett
Randall is a 69-year-old retired and divorced American who has been living in Bangkok for the last ten years enjoying the life as an expat. Prior to that, he worked in middle management for a major insurance company for about 20 years after doing a stint as a Captain in…
Raymond C. Perkins Jr.
Ray is a retired middle school Social Studies teacher who began writing along with his students early on in his teaching career. He has written and published three books for young readers in the B.T. and Jimmy Adventure Series. Spychip Armageddon is his first attempt at adult fiction. Growing up…
Rick Swaine
Rick grew up in Miami, Florida and is a graduate of Florida State University. A semi-retired Certified Public Accountant and Florida Supreme Court Certified Family Mediator, he has been a rabid baseball fan since the age of nine and still plays the game in age appropriate leagues and tournaments throughout…
Rita Dragonette
Rita Dragonette is a writer who, after spending nearly thirty years telling the stories of others as an award-winning public relations executive, has returned to her original creative path. The Fourteenth of September, her debut novel, is based upon her personal experiences on campus during the Vietnam War. The novel, which came…
Robert Burnham
Robert Burnham is a licensed professional forensic engineer with two University of Michigan engineering degrees. He is a member of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers and the National Society of Professional Engineers. Burnham’s scientific and analytical background enabled him to accurately assess the possibility that Hitler’s scientists could have…
Steven M. Forman
Steven Forman was born in the Boston area in 1942, graduated the University of Massachusetts in 1963 and started his own seafood marketing company in 1970. He has always had a passion for writing but did not publish his first book until 2009. He has devoted most of his adult…
Susan McGrath
A native Californian, Susan grew up in western Malibu, riding her horse on the beach and in the hills, weaving stories and daydreaming. Now, a lifetime later, she still rides in the Santa Monica Mountains—either on a horse or a motorcycle—enjoying flights of fancy along the way. During the intervening…
Tim Darcy Ellis
Tim Darcy Ellis (BA BSc, MHSc) is a writer and physiotherapy-business owner. He was formerly a professional archaeologist. Tim's critically acclaimed debut, The Secret Diaries of Juan Luis Vives, is a fast-paced and meticulously researched historical fiction novel. He is passionate about bringing his love of history, archaeology and philosophy…
Tom Young
Tom Young served in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Air National Guard. In all, Young logged nearly 5,000 hours as a flight engineer on the C-5 Galaxy and the C-130 Hercules while flying to almost forty countries. Military honors include the Meritorious Service Medal, three Air Medals, three Aerial Achievement…