Don Keith is the author of historical fiction, suspense thriller series, and stand-alone novels, as well as nonfiction historical works of World Warr II. His series of young adult/men's adventure novels co-written with Kent Wright are called the Rolling Thunder Stock Car Racing Series. His first novel, The Forever Season, won the Alabama Library Association's "Fiction of the Year" award. He was a broadcast personality for over twenty years and was named by Billboard magazine "Radio Personality of the Year." Commander George Wallace received his commission in the US Navy and a degree in engineering from Ohio State University. After being interviewed by Admiral Rickover, he was accepted into the nuclear power and submarine communities. He served on two of Admiral Rickover's famous "Forty One for Freedom," the USS John Adams and the USS Woodrow Wilson, during which time he made nine one-hundred-day deterrent patrols through the height of the Cold War.