David Carlyon is a writer and independent scholar. He has a Ph.D. in theater history from Northwestern University and was a clown with Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He has been an Equity actor and playwright, graduated from the University of Michigan, served as a military policeman, then graduated from Berkeley Law. His award-winning "Dan Rice: The Most Famous Man You’ve Never Heard Of," is a biography and cultural history of 19th-century America.
Courtesy of the New York Council for the Humanities.