David Robertson is the author of three previous biographies, of the slave rebel Denmark Vesey, the former U.S. secretary of state James F. Byrnes, and the bishop James A. Pike, and of a historical novel about John Wilkes Booth. His poetry has appeared in the
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David Robertson is the author of three previous biographies, of the slave rebel Denmark Vesey, the former U.S. secretary of state James F. Byrnes, and the bishop James A. Pike, and of a historical novel about John Wilkes Booth. His poetry has appeared in the
Sewanee Review and other journals, and he has provided political and literary commentary to ABC News and
The Washington Post. He was educated in Alabama and lives in Ohio.