Don Keith's Biography
Don Keith was born in the Birmingham, Alabama, area in 1947 and has
lived in the South all his life. He attended the University of Alabama in
Tuscaloosa where he received his degree in broadcast and film with a double
major in literature. He has won numerous awards from the Associated Press and
United Press International for news writing and reporting. He is also the only
person to win the Billboard Magazine "Radio Personality of the Year" in two
formats, country and contemporary. Keith was a broadcast personality for over
twenty years in Birmingham and Nashville, and also owned his own consultancy,
co-owned a Mobile, Alabama, station, and hosted and produced several nationally
syndicated radio shows.
His first novel, "The Forever Season." was published in Fall, 1995, to
commercial and critical success. It called heavily on Keith's own athletic and
academic experiences. Reviewers praised its unique approach and powerful story.
It won the Alabama Library Association's "Fiction of the Year" award in 1997
and is being re-issued in the fall of 2002 by the University of Alabama Press
as part of its prestigious Deep South Books series. His second novel, "Wizard
of the Wind," was based on Keith's years in radio. As was the first book, the
second work was published under the imprint of widely praised New York editor
Robert Wyatt as A Wyatt Book for St. Martin's Press. Keith next released a
series of young adult/mens' adventure novels co-written with Kent Wright. They
are set in stock car racing and titled " The Rolling Thunder Stock Car Racing
Series." The works are being released in paperback by Tor Books. A new novel, a
thriller co-written with former nuclear submarine commander George Wallace,
"Final Bearing," will be published in April of 2003. Keith is also working on a
non-fiction historical work with co-author Ken Henry, to be published by Forge
Books in late 2003.
He worked for twelve years for Tapscan, a company which developed and
marketed software for the media, and for Arbitron, the leading supplier of
research information for the broadcasting industry. Recently, he joined
Virginia College, a career school in Birmingham, Alabama, to develop a
curriculum in Media Marketing and Management.
Keith lives in Indian Springs Village, Alabama, with his wife,
Charlene, and a black cat named "Hershey."
Meet Don Keith in person and hear him read from his works, or catch
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George Wallace's Biography
Commander George Wallace retired to the civilian business world in
1995, after twenty-two years of service on nuclear submarines. He served on two
of Admiral Rickover's famous "Forty One for Freedom", the USS John Adams SSBN
620 and the USS Woodrow Wilson SSBN 624, during which time he made nine
one-hundred-day deterrent patrols through the height of the Cold War.
Wallace served as Executive Officer on the Sturgeon class nuclear
attack submarine Spadefish. Spadefish and all her sisters were decommisioned
during the downsizings that occurred in the 1990's. The passing of that great
ship served as the inspiration for "Final Bearing."
Wallace commanded the Los Angeles class nuclear attack submarine USS
Houston SSN 713 from February 1990 to August 1992. During this tour of duty
that he worked extensively with the SEAL community developing SEAL/submarine
tactics. Under Wallace's Command, the Houston was awarded the CIA Meritorious
Unit Citation.
Wallace lives with his wife, Penny, in Granada Hills, California.
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