Neil C. Olsen

Neil C. Olsen is the author of books of history, biography, and plays, including Pursuing Happiness: the Organizational Culture of the Continental Congress (2013), The End of Theocracy in America (2014), the history play God’s Spy: William Tyndale and the book that conquered England (2014), Trinity Home 2012: 150 Years of Caring for those in Need (2018), Two Hundred Years on the Green (winner in 2019 of the Laurence D. Fish Award for outstanding parish history), The First Yankee (2022), The Man Who Became Yankee Doodle (2022), and The Founding Teacher: President Dr. Samuel Johnson and the Invention of the American Mind (2026).