David Wray

One of the founders of the Writing Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the author won the highest literary prize at MIT. Funded by a career as a Program Manager for early internet companies (for example, Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc.), he privately pursued interests in numismatics, history, and archaeology, eventually retiring from hi-tech and dedicating his efforts toward researching the complex story about the origins of Christianity.

As a numismatist—a coin collector—who had traveled the world pursuing interests in history, the author was invited to join the Society Historia Numorum (SHN). A Boston collectors' organization with a particularly distinguished membership, the SHN served as a mechanism for engaging in numismatic research with other collectors—historians, archaeologists, and writers—exploring the connections between artifacts and history, and publishing his research in numismatic literature.