David A. Fryxell founded Family Tree Magazine, the nation’s most popular genealogy publication, and continues to write for the magazine as a contributing editor and “TimeLines” and “Now What?” columnist. He also compiles the magazine’s annual 101 Best Websites feature. He is the author of five books: Good Old Days, My Ass!; How to Write Fast (While Writing Well); Elements of Article Writing: Structure and Flow; Write Faster, Write Better; and Double-Parked on Main Street. He edited The Family Tree Guidebook and The Family Tree Guidebook to Europe and contributed to The Family Tree Resource Book for Genealogists. He was previously editor-in-chief of Writer’s Digest Magazine and Writer’s Digest Books, along with other F+W magazines, 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 executive producer of Microsoft’s Twin Cities Sidewalk Web site. His biography has been included in Who’s Who in America for more than 30 years.