James Gilbert is a historian, educator, world traveler and novelist. While at the University of Maryland, he published ten books about Twentieth Century America, one of them a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He has lived and taught abroad in Paris and then with Fulbright Fellowships at universities in Sydney, Australia, Uppsala, Sweden (where he received an honorary Doctorate of Letters), Amsterdam, and Tubingen and Erfurt in Germany. He was also a resident at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, Italy. Since turning to fiction writing, he has published a book of short stories and a novel entitled, The Key Party. He currently lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
