Mark R. Brewer

Mark R. Brewer has an M.A. in U.S. history from Temple University in Philadelphia. He taught history for 31 years at the public school, county college, and university levels. His first two books, SQUIRE WILLIAM'S LUCKY DAY and its sequel, IN THE DAYS OF LOURDE WILLIAM, are fantasy fiction. They were described by one reader as "Harry Potter meets Monty Python." In his next two books, "SWIM, SURRENDER AND DIE and FOR VIRGINIA, Mark returned to his first love, the Civil War. In MOMENTS IN HISTORY, Brewer examines twenty historical events and the people at the center of them. BECAUSE looks at Brewer's top forty songs by the Beatles. And in MOMENTS IN HISTORY II, he again examines historical events and the people in the middle of them. His latest book, MOMENTS IN BASEBALL HISTORY, uses the same format to examine some players and games worth remembering. Mark and his wife Laurie have two grown children and two grown cats.