Larry Witham

Larry Witham is an author, editor, journalist, and artist. His sixth novel, The Haunted Artist, has just been released (Feb. 2025) by Archway Publishing. Witham has written nineteen books, mainly nonfiction. He was a finalist in the 2015 Pen Literary Awards for biography. He began his writing career as a daily newspaper reporter in Washington D.C., a job he held for twenty-one years. He went on to write and edit books full-time. Witham has received several national awards for his newspaper work and books, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for a series he co-wrote.. He was Project Editor for the ten-volume Templeton Press science-and-religion series, and was editor of Science and Spirit magazine in 2007. A painter by avocation, he has a bachelors degree in painting from San Jose State University (1974). Witham lives with his wife in the Maryland suburbs of Washington D.C.