David G. Brown is a nationally recognized boating writer with columns in Offshore and Boating World magazines and regular contributions to Motorboating and other magazines. He is the author of six books, the most recent of which is The Last Log of the Titanic, a project that immersed him in the maritime traditions of the early 1900s and prepared him to research and write White Hurricane. Brown is a lifelong Great Lakes sailor and one-time editor of Great Lakes Travel and Living magazine, and lives within a 90-minute drive of the key repositories of historical information about the storm: the Center for Great Lakes Studies; the Great Lakes Historical Society; the Western Reserve Historical Society; the Dossin Museum of the Great Lakes; and the Henry Ford Museum Library. Brown holds a U.S. Coast Guard Masters License, 100 Gross Tons, and teaches professional-level Coast Guard licensing classes. He was captain of a high-speed ferry serving the western Lake Erie islands and currently owns a harbor tour company operating on the Maumee River, Ohio.