| David Nevin spent his childhood on army bases scattered across the United States. On his seventeenth birthday he joined the U.S. Navy at the latter stages of World War II. Later, as a merchant marine, he spent seven years in the Pacific before he returned to the United States and became a journalist, first in Texas, then in Washington as Life magazine correspondent. He was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Award. In addition to writing books on popular history for Time-Life, Nevin continues to write freelance. He is the New York Times best-selling author of Dream West, which became a seven part miniseries. |