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David Poyer
Captain David Poyer’s twenty-six novels make him possibly the most
popular living author of American sea fiction. His naval career
included service in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Arctic, Caribbean,
Mideast, and Pacific. Korea Strait is the tenth in his continuing novel cycle of the modern Navy and Marine Corps, following The Threat, The Command, The Med, The Gulf, The Circle, The Passage, Tomahawk, China Sea, and Black Storm.
Poyer was born in DuBois, PA in 1949. He grew
up in Brockway, Emlenton, and Bradford, in western Pennsylvania, and
graduated from Bradford Area High School in 1967. He graduated from the
U.S. Naval
Academy at Annapolis in 1971, and later received a master's degree from
George
Washington University. His active and reserve naval service included sea duty in the
Atlantic, Mediterranean, Arctic, Caribbean, and Pacific, and shore duty
at the Pentagon, Surface Warfare Development Group, Joint Forces
Command, and in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. He retired in July
2001.
Poyer has taught or lectured at Annapolis, Flagler College,
University of Pittsburgh, Old Dominion University, the Armed Forces
Staff College,
the University of North Florida, Christopher Newport University, and
other
institutions. He has been a guest on PBS's "Writer to Writer" series
and
on Voice of America, and has appeared at the Southern Festival of Books
and many other literary events. He appears annually at the First Coast
Writers' Festival in Florida and is part of the faculty for the MA and
MFA in Creative Writing program at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre.
He
lives on Virginia's Eastern Shore with his wife, novelist Lenore Hart,
and
their daughter.
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