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Don Keith (born in 12 December[1] 1947,[1][2] Springville, Alabama)[1] is an award-winning, best-selling author of novels and non-fiction books,[2][3][4] filmmaker, screenwriter, freelance writer,[4] radio personality and radio producer.[2]
Biography
Keith was born in 12 December[1] 1947[1][2], in Springville, Alabama.[1] He attended Springville High School from 1963 to 1966[4] and studied at the University of Alabama from 1966 to 1970, earning a Broadcast and Film Communication degree.[2][3][4][5]
He worked as a broadcast journalist. As a news editor and reporter, he won awards from the Associated Press and United Press International. He was the first winner of Troy University's Hector Award for innovation in broadcast journalism. As an on-the-air broadcaster, he won twice the Billboard Radio Personality of the Year.[2][3][6]
His first novel, The Forever Season (1995), received the Fiction of the Year award from the Alabama Library Association.[3]
In addition to novels and non-fiction books, he also has written articles in publications (such as The Washington Post, CQ Amateur Radio, The American Legion Magazine, K9YA Telegraph, QST, 1819 News, and The Irish Times) and several scripts.[3] He has appeared on some television shows[3] and from 2019 is a partner in the film production company Fig Tree Media Group.[5][3]
Keith is also a public speaker and conducts writing workshops and seminars across the country.[3]
He created and supports the project Untold Millions, that pursues to save stories and memories of witnesses of various historical events.[3]
Keith was an amateur radio operator since 1961, with different call signs (first WN4BDW, later WA4BDW and from the 70s N4KC).[4][6] He has also been related to the professional world of radio for over 22 years:[6] worked as radio personality from 1970 to 1979 in Birmingham, Alabama[5], and in Nashville, Tennessee from 1979[7] to about 1983; owned his own consultancy; co-owned with Sherri Brice the radio station WZEW from Mobile, Alabama from 1983 to 1986;[8][5] and presented and produced several nationally syndicated radio shows.[2]
In Birmingham, Alabama, he worked in develop and manage marketing media software[9] with Tapscan and Arbitron from 1990 to 2002 and he was vice president of marketing and communications in Education Corporation of America from 2002 to 2012.[4][5][6]
He and his wife, Charlene, lived in Indian Springs Village[3] and later in Pelham,[4][9] Alabama.
Works
Novels
Hunter Killer series (with George Wallace):
- Final Bearing (2003), ISBN 9780765304155
- Dangerous Grounds (2015), ISBN 9781518760501
- Cuban Deep (2019), ISBN 9781951249229
- Fast Attack (2019), ISBN 9781951249014
- Arabian Storm (2020), ISBN 9781648759031
- Warshot (2021), ISBN 9798507883295
- Silent Running (2022), ISBN 9781648752148
- Snapshot (2023), ASIN B0B1F79QP1
The Ride series (as Jeffery Addison, with Edie Hand):
- The Soldier's Ride (2009), ISBN 9781933251677
- The Last Christmas Ride: A Novella (2007), novella, ISBN 9781581826241
Stand-alones:
- The Forever Season (1995), ISBN 0312146035
- Firing Point, or Hunter Killer (2011), with George Wallace, ISBN 9780451237392
- The Spin (2012), ISBN 9781479109876
Young adult novels
- White Lightning (1999), ISBN 0812575067
- Road to Daytona (1999), ISBN 0812575075
- Race To Glory (1999), ISBN 0812575083
- On to Talladega (2000), ISBN 0812575091
- Young Guns (2000), ISBN 0812545060
- Inside Pass (2000), ISBN 0812545087
- On the Throttle (2001), ISBN 0812545095
Non-fiction
- Biographies
- The Ice Diaries: The Untold Story of the USS Nautilus and the Cold War's Most Daring Mission (2008), with William R. Anderson, ISBN 9780785227595
- We Be Big: The Mostly True Story of How Two Kids from Calhoun County, Alabama, Became Rick & Bubba (2011), with Rick Burgess and Bill Bussey, ISBN 9781401604004
- Dream On: A Journey to Deliverance (2017), with Steve R. Skipper, ISBN 9781544212494
- Richard Bong: America's #1 Ace Fighter Pilot of World War II (2023), ISBN 9780593187296
- Guides
- Writing to be Published... and Read (2012), ISBN 9781370148226
- Dial Dancing: Tales of the the fascinating, fabulous, frequency-hopping, wavelength-walking, power punching, ionosphere-scorching, ditting and dahing, ... wide and wonderful world of amateur radio (2015), ISBN 9781548962685
- Society
- Understanding Sectoral Determination 6: The Private Security Sector, South Africa (2010), ISBN 9780702184918
Adaptations
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Don Keith List of Books". Book Notification. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 "Don Keith". Fantastic Fiction. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 Keith, Don. "Don Keith's Biography". Don Keith. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Keith, Don. "Don Keith". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Don Keith on Facebook
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Keith, Don. "Don Keith - Amateur Radio Station N4KC". N4KC. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
- ↑ "Radio Broadcasting History. Radio People by Name (K)". 440 International. Retrieved 2023-08-04.
- ↑ Oldshue, Lynn (2014-09-01). "92 ZEW is Celebrating 30 Years as The Sound of Mobile". Press-Register. AL.com. Retrieved 2015-07-04.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Bowen, Lizzie (2022-08-29). "Local Pelham author sells over 100,000 copies". Shelby County Reporter. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
- ↑ "George Wallace – Retired Navy Commander & National Best-Selling Author". VeteranCrowd. August 2021. Retrieved 2023-07-22.
- ↑ Barber, James (2018-10-26). "US Navy Vet George Wallace Wrote the Book That Inspired the Movie 'Hunter Killer'". Military.com. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
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