James D. Brewer is a retired US Army officer, novelist, teacher, public speaker, musician, and martial artist. A former instructor at the Unites States Military Academy, West Point, New York, and former editor of a national magazine, Brewer has authored three nonfiction books, a two-act play, and a five-book historical fiction series set during the golden age of steamboats. He currently teaches composition and rhetoric at a central Florida college.
