David J. Kent is an award-winning Abraham Lincoln scholar, former scientist, author, and traveler. He is Immediate Past President of the Lincoln Group of DC with a decade of ongoing group leadership, as well as on the Executive Committee and Board of the Abraham Lincoln Institute and on the Board of Advisers for the Lincoln Forum. He is the author of Lincoln: The Fire of Genius and Lincoln: The Man Who Saved America. David writes extensively on Lincoln for a range of media outlets. His writing has appeared in Civil War Times, Lincoln Herald, The Lincolnian, Lincoln Forum Bulletin, Smithsonian's Civil War Studies newsletter, Writer's Digest, Tesla Magazine, Science Panorama, and elsewhere. He writes ongoing columns in each quarterly issue of the Lincoln Herald and Lincolnian.
