David Sals­burg has been a naval offi­cer, col­lege pro­fes­sor, sci­en­tif­ic researcher, and, now, nov­el­ist. He grad­u­at­ed from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia with hon­ors in his­to­ry in 1952, spent three years as an offi­cer in the U.S. Navy. After five years in the kosher meat busi­ness, he returned to school for a master’s degree in math­e­mat­ics from Trin­i­ty Col­lege, Hart­ford, and a Ph.D. in math­e­mat­i­cal sta­tis­tics from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut. He has taught cours­es at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia, Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut, and Con­necti­cut Col­lege. For 27 years, he engaged in research at Pfiz­er, Inc., work­ing on the devel­op­ment of new drugs, where he rose to the top of the company’s sci­en­tif­ic lad­der. David retired from Pfiz­er in 1995 and has since taught cours­es at Har­vard and Yale Uni­ver­si­ties. He has many sci­en­tif­ic pub­li­ca­tions, includ­ing three aca­d­e­m­ic books. David has also writ­ten a pop­u­lar sci­ence book, The Lady Tast­ing Tea; How Sta­tis­tics Rev­o­lu­tion­ized Sci­ence in the Twen­ti­eth Cen­tu­ry. He and his wife of 55 years, Fran, have four mar­ried chil­dren and nine grandchildren.