Donald Tortorice (“TOR-tor-is”) is a retired attorney and law professor. For more than two decades, he was a Partner in Duane Morris, LLP, an international firm headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and for 13 years, taught as a professor at the Law School of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He also taught as a visiting professor at the law schools of Penn State University, the University of San Diego and the University of Richmond. Don is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the Law School of the University of California at Berkeley. At Texas, he began a fifty-year fascination and study of the life of Admiral Horatio Nelson, which has culminated in this book. He is also the author of The Modern Rules of Order and several law texts in the field of health law and bioethics. I, Horatio is his first novel. Prior to law school, he served for five years as a United Stated Naval Officer, serving initially aboard a destroyer, the USS John W. Thomason, in the Pacific. In 1966-67, he commanded a Swift Boat in Viet Nam, where he was awarded the individual Cross of Gallantry by the Republic of South Viet Nam. He completed his naval career as an Assistant Professor of Naval Science at Yale University. Don currently resides in Pinehurst, North Carolina, where he plays golf, reads, writes, and travels frequently to visit members of his family in San Diego.
