Brandon Fullam has been researching and writing about historical topics since his retirement from the educational field two decades ago. His first three books, published by McFarland & Co., are The Lost Colony of Roanoke: New Perspectives, Manteo and the Algonquians of the Roanoke Voyages, and A Lost Colony Hoax: The Chowan River Dare Stone. He is a member of the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, The Library of Virginia, and the Chesterfield Historical Society of Virginia, for whom he wrote Murder in Midlothian: The True and Complete Account of the Murder of Anthony T. Robiou on July 15, 1851. His most recent book is Edgar Allan Poe: A Scrapbook, containing nearly 500 clippings, records, notices, and documents pertaining to the life of Edgar Allan Poe and his parentage from 1788 to 1849. He now lives in the Richmond, Virginia area.