Doug Williams is a playwright, author, and award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker. He is a former journalist, served as press secretary in the US Senate, and has overseen communications in the public and private sectors. His script based on the life of Barbara Jordan, Black Star Rising, has been honored in competitions worldwide-winning twelve best screenplay awards-and is being developed for a feature film. His previous books include a novel, Nowhere Man, and a nonfiction book cowritten with a federal whistleblower, A Sacred Duty, which is also in development for a film. He currently resides in Houston, Texas, with his wife Donna McKenzie.
