Larry Witham is an author, editor, journalist, and artist. His new novel, The Silk Road Affair, is now released for Fall/Winter 2023. He is the author of sixteen other books, and was a finalist in the 2015 Pen Literary Awards for biography. He began his writing career as a daily newspaper reporter in Washington D.C., a job he held for twenty-one years. Since 2003, he has written and edited books full-time. Witham has received several national awards for his newspaper work and books, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for a series he co-wrote on the clergy in America. He was Project Editor for the ten-volume Templeton Press science-and-religion series, and was editor of Science and Spirit magazine in 2007. A painter by avocation, Witham is currently exploring new art and writing projects. He has a bachelors degree in painting from San Jose State University (1974). Witham lives with his wife in the Maryland suburbs of Washington D.C.