About the Author
David read in a reference book when he was in college that a fellow named Mellichamp printed counterfeit South Carolina money and went to Georgia to buy crops to sell back in Charles-Town. It nearly bankrupted the newly founded colony of Savannah. David's mother was a Mellichamp. Thus began a lifelong search for more details about the incident, the people involved, the origins of the Mellichamps, and the outcome on the succeeding generations of his mother's family. The study of one incident in the life of an ancestor became a study of the history, the people, and the cultural settings through the eyes of a line of Mellichamps over 350 years.
Although the family may not be related to you, David hopes you might relate to them — good and bad — in their own particular era. He wanted to make them live again, if only in the pages of a historical narrative. These were real people in real situations, reacting to actual events. They were people of the times in which they lived.
David earned a BS degree in the Social Sciences at Georgia Southern. After he retired, he wrote his first series, a trilogy of a family living in 4000 BC. The third book won the Page Turner Award for Action/Adventure in 2021. Read about the 1st Series →
This book begins his second series, about a family who lived in 1600s France. David loves studying backgrounds and creating historical fiction from the facts he has found.
He has always wanted to find the root of things and how they evolved, which shows in his love of genealogy. After retiring from social work, the restaurant business, and finally from computer programming, he began writing.
David has always had a garden wherever they lived — and they have moved 12 times. He and his wife raised chickens when their children were small, and since retiring they are raising hens again. Their names are Jane A, Charlotte B, Agatha C, and Emily D.
David and his wife live in Coweta County, Georgia. They have six-plus-one grandchildren.
