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"Refreshing and vastly informative...History in Davis's hands is loud, coarse, painful, funny, irreverent-and memorable."
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Kenneth C. Davis, who writes the Don’t Know Much About series published by HarperCollins, was recently dubbed the “King of Knowing” by Amazon.com. Davis, a sought-after media guest who has appeared on Today, Martha Stewart, Fox & Friends, Bill O’Reilly, NPR, and C-Span’s Booknotes has struck a chord with Americans who want to be educated and entertained. He has also been a commentator for All Things Considered.
With an engaging style and offbeat approach that uses humor, anecdotal material, and contemporary references; Davis makes his subjects, often viewed as boring, come vividly to life. People Magazine once said, “Reading him is like returning to the classroom of the best teacher you ever had.” He speaks frequently before public library and educational groups about the need to make learning more appealing and has appeared at the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Institute.
The success of his Don’t Know Much About series has been phenomenal, beginning with Don’t Know Much About History. With little fanfare, the book spent 35 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list and continues to rack up impressive sales. More than 1.5 million copies of Don’t Know Much About History have been sold. In 2001 Davis added a Don’t Know Much Aboutseries for children also published by HarperCollins. He frequently appears at schools where he brings a game show-styled quiz that is enormously popular with students, teachers, and parents.
The first book was followed by Don’t Know Much About Geography: Everything You Need to Know About the World But Never Learned, Don’t Know Much About the Civil War: Everything You Need to Know About America’s Greatest Conflict But Never Learned and, most recently, Don’t Know Much About the Universe was published. Don’t Know Much About the Bible has been Davis’s best-selling hardcover book to date and was greeted by critical praise in both the secular and religious press. The next book in the series, Don’t Know Much About Mythology,is scheduled for November 2005.
Davis is also a Contributing Editor to USA Weekend, where his "Don’t Know Much About" quizzes appear weekly and are read by millions. In addition, he has written for such national publications as The New York Times, Newsday, The Washington Post, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He was also a featured participant in the Walter Cronkite television documentary, American Presidents: The Most Powerful Man on Earth. In December 1999, Kenneth C. Davis was prominent in the A&E documentary, The Twelve Apostles: History’s Great Revolutionaries and will be featured in a forthcoming documentary about Saint Paul.
Born and educated in public schools in Mt. Vernon, N.Y., Davis attended Concordia College in Bronxville, New York, and Fordham University at Lincoln Center, New York City. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.
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