David A. Fryxell

David A. Fryxell founded Family Tree Magazine, the nation’s most popular genealogy publication, and wrote its long-running “History Matters” column. He was previously editor-in-chief of Writer’s Digest Magazine and Writer’s Digest Books, wrote the Nonfiction column for Writer’s Digest for more than a decade, and served as the director of the annual Maui Writers Retreat. He has written more than 1,000 magazine and newspaper pieces, for publications including Playboy, Reader’s Digest and Travel & Leisure. He’s been an editor at TWA Ambassador, Horizon, Pitt and Milwaukee magazines, the St. Paul Pioneer Press newspaper, and the Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter, and executive producer of Microsoft’s Twin Cities Sidewalk website. For a dozen years, he and his wife, Lisa, owned and published an award-winning monthly regional periodical, Desert Exposure, based in Silver City, NM. Today he lives and writes in Aurora, Colo.