David Matthew Wilcox

David Matthew Wilcox is a professor of history and chair of the Honors College at Houston Community College in Houston, Texas. He received his baccalaureate and master degrees from Iowa State University and attended Rice University for two years, working on a doctorate, before turning to teaching and fatherhood. In his nearly forty years of teaching, he has taught classes in American history, Western Civilization, American diplomatic history and leadership development. He has traveled extensively throughout the United States and since 1990 regularly led student and faculty trips to Europe. Although he has published several volumes of historical readings for students, Roosevelt, Muir, Clio and Me: A Novel of Loss and Discovery is his first large-scale work of historical fiction.