Dave was
 born and raised in 
Cleveland, and started
 college at Bowling
 Green State University 
majoring in 
creative writing. Eleven years later, he walked across the graduation stage to receive a PhD in math, a strange journey indeed. After two years at Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania, Dave came home to Ohio, accepting a tenure-track job at the Hamilton campus of Miami University. He has won a number of teaching awards in his career, and while maintaining an active teaching schedule, and now spends an inordinate amount of time writing textbooks. Dave has written or co-authored either eight or fourteen textbooks, depending on how you count them, as well as several solutions manuals and interactive CD-ROMS. He maintains a ridiculously active speaking and travel schedule, and in recent years has been a consultant for the Arkansas Department of Higher Education.
Dave is in a very happy place right now: his love of teaching meshes perfectly with his childhood dream of writing. (Behind his publishers back, Dave is working on his first novel in the limited spare time that he has.) Dave lives in Fairfield, Ohio with his lovely wife Cat (seriously, she’s pretty hot), and fuzzy dogs Macleod and Tessa. When not teaching or writing, his passions include Ohio State football, Cleveland Indians baseball, heavy metal music, travel, golf, collecting fine art, and home improvement.