ESSENCE(R) bestselling author D.T. Pollard lives in the Dallas/Fort Worth, TX area. He is married and has one son. He earned an academic scholarship to the School of Business and Industry at Florida A & M University and stopped writing during his second year in college. D T was at the top of his class in Marketing and graduated Summa Cum Laude and won the Most-Outstanding-Performance-in-Marketing award for the graduating class of 1981. While working in sales for giants of the high-technology world for over 28 years, his desire to write returned after losing several siblings from various causes. D T Pollard is the author of many works including Rooftop Diva, a fictional account about a Hurricane Katrina survivor that became an Essence Magazine bestseller and is featured in libraries nationwide and abroad in hard copy and audio formats.